Kandahar

Well this will be my longest day yet, you see I am now on nights and I work from 7 to 7. Tomorrow morning I meet the Boss and we are flying to Kandahar for some meetings. The aviation branch team came over and they want to meet all the command teams that are in theater so off we will go. It sounds like a typical day that I would just as soon pass, but when you add two General Officers and the CWOB of the aviation branch not much we can do but go.

Nights have been pretty quite we are spending more time flying around the FOB pulling security ourselves. Some of our contract tower guards have been seen buying drugs from the locals that they allow to walk right up to their guard towers to buy from. No one feels to safe at night with the foreigners guarding this place. Not to mention all the spotters that we have all around the FOB that report everything that goes on around here. We listen to their radio transmissions and we have interpreters translate the calls, most are about aircraft movements and what kind are taking off. We have pathfinders in some of the guard towers with sniper rifles and they are within the rights of the ROE to shoot them for hostile intent. Their are so many they just don't know where to begin, this place is getting crazy and many folks in the command have this opinion that If we don't bother them they won't bother us. I am quick to point out that I was there when they attacked my last FOB and we had insurgents coming through the wire and trust me we had not bothered the locals there either but it didn't matter they attacked us anyway. I flew for five hours that morning and reloaded twice, I made a lot of introductions, and I don't care to ever go through that again.

Well I will be out of here some time around the end of July unless something changes, I hope nothing changes. I will be in Savannah for just a bit of the kids summer vacation and I am sure we will do something fun. Speaking of kids, I am so lucky to have the best kids a Dad could ask for. Robby congrats on getting your 4.0 GPA your first year in school I could not be more proud of you. You are setting some great standards for your sisters to work for, you are a great son and I am sure you will do just as well next year. As for my girls, I could not ask for any better, you two ROCK I love everything that you two have become. Shirley I can't thank you enough for all my videos not a week went bye without getting one from you, THANKS. Elli I can't wait to get the next one and watch you play some ball, I miss going to the games with Mom and cheering you on I miss you guys all so much. Marie what did we do to be so lucky to have such wonderful kids, I miss you and I hope you have a great weekend, I love you guys