FOB Smart at 1430 - Sunday
I spoke with my son last night for quite a long time. He is growing so fast in my physical absence from him. He is changing and becoming a new personality. I miss him dearly. He is everything and more to me.
FOB Smart is quiet today. The sun is back out and shining. I have no missions today. I do have a mountain of paperwork tasks to climb. Such is my life, for today anyway, and I am grateful for every breath of it here. We had an 82nd Airborne brass quintet play for us during dinner in our DFAC last night. The PRT is in a high mode of R&R these days. Spirits are very high these days as a result.
We are moving forward with several new plans for improving the transition of program management here in Afghanistan. Locally, this includes more partnering and mentoring of local officials and construction personnel. It may include more one-on-one mentoring with some Afghans and has the prospect, again, of really making a difference here in terms of sharing the knowledge of practices and procedures necessary to ensure longer term success when the day comes that Afghans will fully support their own construction initiatives and need our expertise no more. These are exciting times for me. Nation building, specifically human capacity development, takes on a completely new and more purposeful meaning now.
143, Kaesen.
Good night and good day.
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