FOB Smart at 2130 (9:30 p.m.)
I shared an interesting night in that we on the FOB were able to view two US Army Apache helicopters circling overhead, often very low to the ground and at times in high circuitous patterns off in the distance. These aircraft are full of awesome power and demonstrate such an amazing ability to defend, offend, and prove their agility. While it is better to say they were just flying around, once could imagine what the sight must have appeared to eyewitnesses here...
I had another safe and regular day here on the FOB. I coordinated multiple projects and planned for upcoming missions outside-the-wire. I have a few meetings tomorrow and a few deadlines to meet with regard to paperwork. At times the work here for me seems very similar to such that we regularly complete back home in construction management, only without the military uniforms, for me at least, and without the constant threats of hostile action right outside your walls. Well, it is hostile outside anywhere here in Afghanistan these days, but peace will someday overtake this insurgent-stricken land and allow the local, peaceful, and hard-working population to return to to some resemblance of "normal." What "normal" is here is so completely different that where you and I live, but "normalcy" will in fact return.
My coworkers are usually filled with lighthearted joking and pranking, at appropriate times that is, and I do enjoy their camaraderie. Life is still evolving and shaping into routines and familiarity in this unfamiliar land.
143, K&K.
Good night and good day.
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