A Year In The Sandbox

Not much to write about in this one, just a few pictures to share. We went down to the Shinwar district the other day to check out some clinics and so one of the Civil Affairs guys could talk to the governor there. Everything went smooth and we found everything we were looking for (doesn’t [...]

I finally made it back to FOB Finley-Shields. Traveling in Afghanistan sucks, we got bumped from 2 different flights out of Bagram, ended up being up all night, finally caught a flight at 0600 back to FOB Fenty. We called to get a ride back to FOB Finley-Shields at 0700. At 0900 we were still [...]

Well, I’m still in Bagram waiting for a flight to Qatar. I was supposed to fly out the same day I got here but that flight was canceled. The next one was today (Friday) but we woke up to almost 8 inches of snow on the ground! It’s wet, slushy, nasty snow too. All the [...]

Here’s a quick video I took outside Our Mother of Hope school here in Jalalabad. I had climbed down out of the turret and was trying to get my bag out of the back seat and these kids crowded around asking for a pen. It cracked me up, reminded me of the gulls in Finding [...]

Image via Wikipedia Well I don’t know whether it’ll be a jet or prop job, but I’m heading out for some R&R in Qatar this week.I’ll be in Qatar for 4 days, but it could take up to a week to get there and another week to get back. Should only take a day or [...]