FOB Smart at 1615 - Friday
Fridays are equivalent to American Sundays here in the Middle East and especially here in Qalat, Afghanistan. Since most people here, at least with our Afghan national friends, are in their mosques for worship, the days often are slow and good for command maintenance. However, since certain of my missions yesterday pushed forward for today, my day was anything but slow or mundane. We completed several missions this morning and afternoon, including two foot patrols through Old Qalat City and one mounted combat patrol into New Qalat City. The latter included five separate stops and project observations. The morning foot patrols included one village paving preparatory stop and three regular construction projects. All is well here in our little piece of the world.
I took some amazing photographs during my missions today, so I will share them soon here and on Facebook for those interested. "All is well that ends well, roger," as they say.
Dinner is soon to start, a shower is soon to refresh, and I am in an extraordinarily good mood this evening. I spoke with KT before his bedtime this morning, his last night, and look forward to another phone call in a few hours or less. What can I say other than when I speak with my son the world becomes right once more.
Today, right this second, I have 55.32 additional days until I leave for my second R&R and see my beautiful son shortly thereafter!
143, Kaesen.
Good night and good day.
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