Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Made it

We finally made it to FOB Warrior after a marathon long convoy. I wasn't even sure we were going to convoy, but we ended up needing some equipment. We stopped at a Polish FOB called Ghazni, which was pretty much a dump. We saw a lot of the countryside and some different cities. Afghanistan looks pretty much like a poor New Mexico. Other things I saw:

At Ghazni a Polish soldier doing gate guard in nothing but his underwear and flipflops.
Jingle buses with Corollas on top of them. The car wasn't that much smaller than the bus!
The only paved road/highway in Afghanistan.
A lot of camels.
A lot of sheep.
I got to ride on the back of an Afghan Police pickup for a little ways.
A Polish Prince.
A 400 year old British fort that I'm now living about 50 ft from.

Anyway, Warrior is still pretty primitive but it's not too bad. We have tents with A/C and my cell phone internet works. There's Polish and ANA here as well. That's about it for now, laters.

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