FOB Smart at 1800 - Saturday
Mornings are always enjoyable here for the most part. Why? For one, the coffee is usually decent or better in the DFAC and breakfast - well, it is hard to beat a hot breakfast any day of the week. Mornings have always been good for me. I suppose that I have generally enjoyed waking up early, before dawn, for nearly all of my adult life and even as a child. The military was good for me in the sense that it afforded me the "you have no choice" mentality of getting up and it sort of stuck through the years.
This day began, and is ending, well for me. Much our outgoing team departed today with only a handful or so to leave soon. As with earlier this week, their departure is bittersweet. It is also exciting as it means I am leaving soon! So, they left earlier, with many of us on-hand to wish them bon voyage and watch their Chinook takeoff on their freedom flight to all points beyond Qalat. The landing and takeoff of a Chinook is already impressive in its own right, but to do with incoming, or in this case - outgoing troops, the feelings stirred within are patriotic in nature and make that warmth well up in your eyes and dry your throat. I love it! Plus, they are so powerful that standing, literally right next to the helipad, a 200-pound man could easily be blown over if not sure footed.
143, Kaesen.
Good night and good day.
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