It was Jumaa and I was caught up with my work. No training, no missions, just a day to relax. I even slept in until 0630 hrs this morning. Woke up refreshed and planned my day accordingly. My room Internet connectivity seemed to be operating too. I planned to use this to my advantage and [...]
Filed under: Food and living conditions | Tagged: Afghanistan, Deployment, ETT, Jumaa, lasso, photography, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, volleyball, writing | 3 Comments »
This morning’s tasking was to inspect our HMMVW vehicle fleet. The Army uses the acronym PMCS for Preventive Maintenance Checks. This can be confusing to Air Force personnel because we use the same acronym to identify an aircraft that is Partial Mission Capable for Supply. This means the aircraft is waiting for a part from [...]
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It’s not often an American soldier is permitted into an Islamic mosque. In fact, we are prohibited from entering a mosque. However, when the “minbar” is removed from a mosque, it’s no longer a mosque or at least this applied to a former mosque that is located inside the Afghan Army base near us. At [...]
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These past few days our Internet connectivity has been intermittent and painfully slow. I pay $90 a month to have a Wi-Fi connection in my room, but the connectivity is not reliable. When this happens I resort to Plan B and use the computers in the MWR facility. It’s apparent that I am not the [...]
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From Liisa, SMSgt Temple’s wife: Wi-Fi at Rex’s camp is not working well enough for him to upload his blog post today or his new photos. So here is a link to a conversation between U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke and NPR’s Renée Montagne from today’s “Morning Edition.” In the interview Holbrooke warns that certain Election [...]
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From Liisa, SMSgt Temple’s wife: Rex had a very busy work day today and limited Internet access so he asked me to upload a recent video since he could not provide a new blog entry. Below you’ll find the latest episode of the popular “DOWNRANGE” broadcast from July 23, 2009.
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By the time we arrived at the Lake House, most of the sun had disappeared behind the mountain crests. Everyone was tired and sweaty from the long day. Yet we all felt a sense of accomplishment. The smiles on the children’s faces and those of the local villagers were evidence that at least for a [...]
Filed under: Food and living conditions, Missions | Tagged: Afghanistan, AK-47, ANA, Deployment, E-koli, ETT, HMMVW, J-Bad Pass, medical mission, photography, Tagab Valley, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, VMO, war | 4 Comments »
Although wake-up was set for 0500 hrs, the bright shining sun rose at 0430 hrs and awoke us. The morning sun was pretty spectacular and I climbed up the hill side to take some additional shots of the landscape with my camera. After all of our gear was loaded in the trucks we departed for [...]
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