After 2 hours of driving and being bounced around on the Afghan highways like a ping-pong ball, we arrived at our destination. Originally we were planning to drive on to BAF and then off-load the Humvees. But when we found out about the mountain of paperwork and coordination required to escort our ANA counterparts on [...]
Filed under: Deployment "snafus", Missions | Tagged: BAF, Bagram, snabu | 2 Comments »
My private internet connectivity is working again. I had no access for 24 hours. Even when I am connected, the bandwidth is about the speed of drying paint, especially when it comes to uploading photographs. As a backup, I visit the MWR building when I have no connectivity. But last night it was slow too. [...]
Filed under: Deployment "snafus" | Tagged: Armyism, BII, camp puppies, custom made suits, Internet access, inventory, MRAP, property book, Technical Manuals (TMs) | 3 Comments »
While at the Post office, several of my teammates were trying to turn in some serviceable communication equipment. It wasn’t long before they got to experience “Armyisms.” The first office they went to (Office A) had them sign a piece of paper detailing the equipment’s specific information. This form was taken to Office B which [...]
Filed under: Deployment "snafus", Missions | Tagged: Afghanistan, Armyisms, BAF, BAFfite, Bagram Air Field, Burger King, Camp Phoenix, convoy, Deployment, ETT, Give me a break, Pizza Hut, Popeyes | 2 Comments »
For the past 8 ½ months, I have written about my experiences, observations and opinions of being Air Force while being assigned with the Army. Admittedly, I have chided them on some of their processes and in turn, they have apprised me on some unique Air Force peculiarities. Of course, the outer planetary SNAFUs experienced [...]
Filed under: Deployment "snafus" | Tagged: Afghanistan, Ammonium Nitrate, Armyisms, Bagram Air Field, Camp Phoenix, Darulaman, ETT, HMMVW, Kabul | 2 Comments »
Last night after downloading my photographs and the writing my daily entry, my laptop computer started experiencing problems. The screen started changing colors and then I started getting streaks across it. Using my limited computer knowledge, I tried to fix the problem and only made it worse. Now I am unable to neither start my [...]
Filed under: Deployment "snafus", Missions, School supplies project | Tagged: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Air Force fire retardant uniforms, Deployment, ETT, mentoring, U.S. Air Force, war | 2 Comments »
It was another sleepless and cold night in the tent. My earplugs were unable to drown out the flight line noise nor could they muffle the reverberations of the guy snoring next to me. Despite being groggy I was still motivated enough to shave and eat some breakfast at the DFAC. My only worry was [...]
Filed under: Deployment "snafus", Mid tour leave in Germany | Tagged: Afghanistan, BAF-fite, BAF-nesia, Bagram Air Field, Deployment, ETT, U.S. Air Force, war | 3 Comments »
It was a very smooth flight from Kuwait to Afghanistan. Boeing can be proud of their achievement and the Air Force made a great investment with purchasing the C-17. Due to the extra leg room, this was actually more comfortable than flying coach on a commercial airliner. Of course we didn’t have the movies, music, [...]
Filed under: Deployment "snafus", Mid tour leave in Germany | Tagged: Afghanistan, BAF-fites, BAF-nesia, Bagram Air Field, Deployment, ETT, U.S. Air Force, war | 1 Comment »
It was a rough night trying to sleep in the tent. Around 3 am, the tent filled up with new tent mates. They turned on the bright fluorescent lights and made a racket trying to unpack their gear. It was about 5 am until they finished taking their showers, got a bite to eat and [...]
Filed under: Deployment "snafus", Mid tour leave in Germany | Tagged: Afghanistan, Ali Asaleem, C-17 Globemaster, Deployment, IBA vest and helmet, Kuwait, U.S. Air Force, war | 4 Comments »
It’s been 3 days now and my luggage still hasn’t arrived. I bought some extra clothes and necessities at the PX to hold me over. Last night was Christmas Eve and I entertained myself at the MWR center. They had a special BINGO game and gave prizes out to the winners. I still wasn’t having [...]
Filed under: Deployment "snafus" | Tagged: Afghanistan, Deployment, Kuwait, lost luggage, mid tour leave, U.S. Air Force | Leave a Comment »
I got on the plane and hugged my wife goodbye. My R&R leave had come to an end. Now it was time to return to the combat zone. It wasn’t easy saying goodbye to Liisa, but we both are looking on the bright side that I only have 4 ½ months to go. My plane [...]
Filed under: Deployment "snafus" | Tagged: Afghanistan, Camp LSA, Deployment, Kuwait, mid tour leave, photography, U.S. Air Force | 2 Comments »
