FOB Smart at 1830 - Saturday
Today began with an alarm chirping, ringing, and gonging in the background I suppose that I was not ready to wake up when I did, but I jumped out of bed, showered, and headed for breakfast nevertheless. Hot coffee did not cure my lagging and tired feeling. I finally cleared the cobwebs around 1030 and enjoyed another unassumingly normal Saturday.
Our FOB expansion project seems to be progressing very well these days. The winter weather will soon prevent them, or any area contractors, from completing concrete construction, so they are making as much "hay" as is possible during our remaining "sunshine" of warmer temperatures. Walls are transforming and being erected where walls never existed before, which is always fun to watch.
We have a busy week filled with all sorts of visitors beginning tonight through next weekend culminating with another unusual visit next week. Transition will be upon FOB Smart again before we know it and this PRT rotation will soon be handing over the reins of control to yet another new team. I am looking forward to greeting another new team and enjoy offering continuity during such transitional periods. I suppose it makes me feel a just a little bit more useful than normal, although I generally feel very useful to my teams.
With only a few more days until I leave FOB Smart to fly down to Kandahar, and then a few days thereafter I fly to Dubai, I feel the excitement building minute-by-minute.
143, Kaesen.
Good night and good day.
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| JL taking a moment to smile for the camera during a site observation on 3 Dec 2011 |
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| JL seen here observing progress on reinforced concrete construction of a cistern wall on 3 Dec 2011 |
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| JL enjoying a morning moment atop newly installed HSECO barrier walls at FOB Smart on 4 Dec 2011 |
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