This is a wonderful age to be living in. Imagine this, I am in the middle of no where, on a laptop that is now connected to a satellite dish the size of a hard cover book and am on the Internet. Is this a wonderful world or what? I know that I am going to hate going back home. I am already hearing about the things my new boss is doing. Just let it be known that I did not vote for him. In fact, I voted "against" him and not "FOR" McCain. Even though the end result was the same. I know that I did not like McCain, but, he would have at least not trampled the constitution. He also would be through campaigning by now and actually leading the country instead of putting his freshly sucked thumb into the air to see which way the winds were coming from. I was just talking to an officer here and he said, "I do not care, he just gave us a 4.5 % pay raise." To which I responded with I would be willing to give that back and another 4.5% on top of it if it would get us someone in there who knew what the hell they were doing.
Anyway, I am not here to chat about the things back home. This camp is coming along really well. We are still living in tents, but, the B huts are being built as we speak. There are going to be showers soon and an MWR where people can go and get on line and use the phone to call home. I am rather impressed as to how fast it is all being put together.
They are talking about moving us to a new location. We are, apparently, a really valuable asset to them. They are having some problems in a different region and they want us to go there and see if we can get the bad guys before they hurt any more of our troops. I can not go into detail as to what we do, simply because I have noticed that there are a lot of people reading this post that I do not know and some are from across the border here. Not sure what they are going to learn, but, I do not want to take that chance. I will say this. I love my job. I know it is not the best job in the world, but, it is nice to know that what I do makes a difference. It actually is a job with a meaning. I am getting paid to have fun. Of course there are some down sides. Like the ones I listed yesterday, but, over all. I love this job. More so, now that I have my own Internet access and do not have to rely on any other units MWR.
Well it is time for me to share this terminal with my troops. They are about to get the best news of the month. I have not told them that we have access to the regular Internet just yet. I will write more often now that I have this and I will post the notes I was taking as the days went by while I did not have access.
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