Well, as you all have read my first post you know my current story. Thanks for the reading. It feels good to know that people are still supportive of unwanted situations. I wanted to come back here to see what has changed and if anything has changed since I left this hell pit in 2002. It has changed drammatically. What lots of us fail to realize is these people were oppressed for their entire lives and they have came accustomed to it in some respects like those who have been incarcerated for most of their lives. They hate change and do not realize there is a better way to live. I do not want to start a political war, I am just saying what I have personnaly seen. Today here is a different atmosphere that makes me feel much better about our cause. We have made progress dispite what the hell those crooked sob's in office say.
Now onto the Blog title. Here where I am at is a palace compared to most of the posts here. We are about 45 miles north of the capital. It is one of the largest posts in theatre so it has quite a few amentities like CHU's and CHU's with water, new barracks facilities that had recently been completed. There are even a few vendors here you may recognize, BK, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Popeye's Chicken, and SubWay. They are all here. The troops that are not from here get to come here when they can. They love that run/mission that has a layover here. It is like going to your favorite restaraunt back home. It has everything you miss and love at the same time. We even have two pools now for the soldiers tohave cook outs at when they have down time and it gives them a chance to forget that they are here. It really helps them out. I have seen a few platoon gatherings at the pool and they just get a chance to forget it all.
We do not have many vehicles here so walking and biking everywhere is the main transportation. Everything that I need is is about .5 miles away. My work, my chow hall, my PX, phone, you name it. It is about a half mile away. Not too bad. The temperature is about 108 at 10am and blazing near 130 by 1400 it cools down to low 100's in the evening.
Our offices have A/C and the shops that people work in have it but the shops are so big the A/C is not all that great for those guys working on the soldiers equipment to get it ready. I teach two days in the weather on my classes and it gets hot for those soldiers because of their armor and how heavy it is. Their upper body armor weighs close to 65lbs at least. Try carrying that around all day in that kind of heat. I feel for those guys let me tell ya.
Attached is a picture of our CHU rows or housing units. Thank god they only stack them 2 high. When the mortars actually get close these things rock! I live on a bottom CHU too. I am happy about that.
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