FOB Smart at 1030 - Friday
Morning came on with "excitement" here on the FOB. Without saying too much, I could best describe this morning's events as slightly chaotic, then calm, then slightly chaotic with the arrival of two casualty evacuations aboard a US Army UH-60 medevac helicopter. The casualties were a young boy of maybe eight years old and a man of maybe 40-50 years old. Watching our personnel spring into action over the course of thirty minutes and perform triage and then acute care to the two injured Afghans was heartening. I even had a chance to assist with changing litters and comforting the young boy as several of our doctors and medics assessed him. The boy’s father watched nearby and I found it appropriate to assure him is son would be all right and was safe in the hands of our personnel. These two should survive and the events leading up to their injuries were at once saddening.
Days pass by without significant events occurring and then something happens outside the wire and life briefly changes. Regardless of our affiliations, our specialties, our planned tasks for the day, when something happens it is warming to know that the team operates as it should and the professionals I am surrounded by take great care and pride to lend a hand to humanity. Thank you the PRT Zabul, its visitors who assisted, and to the efforts all made to ensure safety and security. You should all be proud of yourselves.
I spoke with K&K briefly when I woke this morning. All is well there and I am comforted with the belief that they are safe and secure in their own life back home.
143, K&K.
Good night and good day.
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