Hello to all, today was a good day for me I only flew 3 hours. Tomorrow however I am sure I will fly much more and I am ok with that. I sit here in my room listening to my iPod, to some of my favorite music. It’s amazing how music can be so motivating and yet so depressing at the same time. I guess the problem is that it reminds me of so many other times and so many different places all of which are not here in Afghanistan. Another thing I love to do is start a slideshow while I am trying to write a post to my blog. I have many favorite pictures mostly of the kids and Marie and some of family. I know that I have not written on here for some time and tonight I wanted to get on here and do exactly that, write to my blog.
The last few days have been pretty good weather has been great low 70s high 60s mid day gets a little cooler at night but for the most part I am not complaining at all. When I left Savannah I was expecting Cincinnati Ohio weather over here and it just isn’t so it’s more like Savannah, Thank you baby Jesus! Marie and I have lived in the south so long I just don’t think I could have made it through a hard winter and lucky for me it’s not looking like I will have to.
I wanted to put some pictures up tonight too; however I think I just changed my mind as to what I will post. I want to put up some oldies but goodies they nothing to do with my deployment but tonight they have me pretty sentimental and I want to share them with all of you. I hope it doesn’t take me to long to post them there are many that I want to put up. As I sit here listening to my music watching my slide show thinking of home I just feel that I need to share some of these with all of you.
Starting next month we will be starting our leave dates, my buddy Joe will be going home to see his family the first week in February and I am happy for him but at the same time I will miss him when he is gone. I am still not sure when I will be going home to see Marie and the Kids but I am trying to get home during their summer break let’s hope it works out.
As for FOB life the last couple of weeks we have had a few scares here on FOB Salerno. I am sure you all heard about the 8 CIA agents that were killed by a suicide bomber. That happened at the FOB closest to us and all the wounded were rushed over here to our hospital. That night I was in the traffic pattern doing training with one of our new pilots and all hell broke loose over the radios. I felt so helpless that night, there was nothing that I could do and I know that now but there I sat in a fully loaded aircraft with no bad guys to go after. The radio calls for medevac aircraft inbound with wounded and KIAs this was the first time that I really had to deal with injured and killed Americans. I was so angry that night and it finally hit me that there are no friendly people over here. I realized that night that I will never let my guard down I must stay vigilant and keep my head on a swivel at all times. If something doesn’t look right it’s because it’s not right and it needs to be addressed. Several days later on a lighter note we completely locked down our FOB and put on our protective gear because a local Afghani was late for work. You see once he got through the security checkpoints to get onto the FOB and then he started to run and he ran all the way across the FOB to where he works in the Laundry facility. He was so lucky he was not shot for being thought of as a suicide bomber with an explosive vest under his man dress. I am glad it all worked out for him, my biggest concern over here is that I will be put in a situation where I have to make a judgment call and I hurt someone innocent. I pray that this never happens to me and I can get out of here with no regrets.
Alright I need to get off here so I can spend some time shrinking some pictures to post on here tonight. Happy New Year everyone, night all
The last few days have been pretty good weather has been great low 70s high 60s mid day gets a little cooler at night but for the most part I am not complaining at all. When I left Savannah I was expecting Cincinnati Ohio weather over here and it just isn’t so it’s more like Savannah, Thank you baby Jesus! Marie and I have lived in the south so long I just don’t think I could have made it through a hard winter and lucky for me it’s not looking like I will have to.
I wanted to put some pictures up tonight too; however I think I just changed my mind as to what I will post. I want to put up some oldies but goodies they nothing to do with my deployment but tonight they have me pretty sentimental and I want to share them with all of you. I hope it doesn’t take me to long to post them there are many that I want to put up. As I sit here listening to my music watching my slide show thinking of home I just feel that I need to share some of these with all of you.
Starting next month we will be starting our leave dates, my buddy Joe will be going home to see his family the first week in February and I am happy for him but at the same time I will miss him when he is gone. I am still not sure when I will be going home to see Marie and the Kids but I am trying to get home during their summer break let’s hope it works out.
As for FOB life the last couple of weeks we have had a few scares here on FOB Salerno. I am sure you all heard about the 8 CIA agents that were killed by a suicide bomber. That happened at the FOB closest to us and all the wounded were rushed over here to our hospital. That night I was in the traffic pattern doing training with one of our new pilots and all hell broke loose over the radios. I felt so helpless that night, there was nothing that I could do and I know that now but there I sat in a fully loaded aircraft with no bad guys to go after. The radio calls for medevac aircraft inbound with wounded and KIAs this was the first time that I really had to deal with injured and killed Americans. I was so angry that night and it finally hit me that there are no friendly people over here. I realized that night that I will never let my guard down I must stay vigilant and keep my head on a swivel at all times. If something doesn’t look right it’s because it’s not right and it needs to be addressed. Several days later on a lighter note we completely locked down our FOB and put on our protective gear because a local Afghani was late for work. You see once he got through the security checkpoints to get onto the FOB and then he started to run and he ran all the way across the FOB to where he works in the Laundry facility. He was so lucky he was not shot for being thought of as a suicide bomber with an explosive vest under his man dress. I am glad it all worked out for him, my biggest concern over here is that I will be put in a situation where I have to make a judgment call and I hurt someone innocent. I pray that this never happens to me and I can get out of here with no regrets.
Alright I need to get off here so I can spend some time shrinking some pictures to post on here tonight. Happy New Year everyone, night all
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