A Year In The Sandbox

After talking to Walter today I found out that Skype offers a service that allows you to use a phone number that will call your Skype on your computer.  Mom told me something about it a while back but I didn’t really think about it then.  So, now I have a US number that you [...]

Here’s a couple recent news items about the team and some of the projects we’re working on:
Well project brings water to Afghan villages
Nangarhar PRT brings new power to Afghan village
I’m still in the process of uploading all my pictures so keep checking the Albums.

I finally got internet access on my laptop.  It’s pretty slow, but I can upload my pictures at least.  I’m adding them slowly but surely.  You can see them at http://picasaweb.google.com/mbrameld
Nothing much exciting has been going on here.  Last week was an Afghan holiday called Eide so we had 5 or 6 days with no [...]

My first mission outside of the wire was to go fire all the crew-served weapons that the infantry platoon we brought with us was taking over from the old group.  It was also a training mission for me to learn what I’d be doing.  I was in a humvee with the old comm guy and [...]