sgtdub

15 March 2007, A gas heater in a gun powder store? Yes, see folks, I'm not the dimmest light bulb in the bunch. That's what the story is sounding like right now for downtown Kabul yesterday. It was a very quiet day and almost boring for me. At about noon I was ready for a nap. I came back to my connex after work and worked on my black box packing. What is a black box? A Stanley Mobile Job Chest that they purchased for us at the beginning of this deployment. It's a little larger than a foot locker and we are allowed to pack whatever personal items we wanted to bring with us. For the trip back it will mostly contain all my cold weather gear, of which I didn't wear any of it. Last trip here in 2003 they issued us a cold weather suit. It looked like a bear suit. I could have gotten a bear mask and had a costume for Halloween with it. I don't get cold very often, and it usually takes wind to make that happen. The wind doesn't blow very much at all during the winter. Of course, I'm almost reluctant now to ship anything with the Army after they lost two of my boxes on the trip over here. As I mentioned, they ship it by boat, which docks in Pakistan and then is driven here on jingle trucks. Well, a little band of thieves decided to detour the trucks and raid them. I was out about $1400 worth of personal stuff. All the paperwork was filled out back in September and I'm just waiting on the Army to settle with me.
I'm going to ab lab tonight and will try to get some cardio in first. Not much else to report today. Be safe and have a great day.