Still at Bagram

Well it is now the 5th of April and I am still at Bagram. It looks like I am going to be here for a while. This reorganization is going to take a while to get ironed out. Thus, as soon as they know where I am going to be going, I will be told. As is stands right now, no one knows what the Battalion structure is going to look like. We have our Colonel fighting for his idea of what his organization should look like. And we have a few Generals wanting their individual ideas of what they want us to do, and thus it is all up in the air.

I am, however, enjoying this time I have been granted. I do keep busy with office work, but, I also have time to do things that I want to do. I am staying away from the Bazaar and the "Haji shops" because I do not want to be tempted to spend any more money. My goal is to be debt free by the time I get back, and it is looking like it is going to happen. Minus the two houses, of course. I have that laid out on a five year plan.

I weighed myself the other day while in the Mayor Cell Office. They happened to have scale there in the hall way. I was surprised to find out that I weigh 189 with my uniform on and my side arm w/ammo and boots on. Oh, and all the stuff in all my pockets. I figure that all that stuff is around 18 Lbs. so I am now down in the 170's. Not bad considering I left home weighing just under 200 Lbs. I guess that is what happens when you eat One MRE per day for few weeks and do a lot of physical work at the same time.

I will be starting to go to the gym here, if I do not get out of here soon. The food here is really good and I do not want to gain that weight back.

It looks like I am not going to be going home in Aug like I was told I would be doing. I might not be able to go home at all during this deployment as it looks right now. It appears that Battalion does not have enough slots to get us all home for our leaves and thus the higher ranking individuals will not be getting leave. Of course, if you are high ranking and work here in Bagram, where you have connections, that does not apply. But, for those of us who are down range, we get hosed.

Well I have to go. My computer number was just called and my time is up. I will write again soon.