Greeting from Kabul
The last place anyone would ever want to be. Greetings and salutations friends, family, and the like. I have been halfway around the world for 3 weeks and let me tell you, it sucks. If anyone has ever been to Juarez, or Tijuana, then you have already been to Kabul. Minus the AK carrying cops. The traffic, the smog, the.....just wonderfulness that it a 3rd world capital. This place is more populous than Los Angeles proper, sits at 5500 feet above sea level, and stinks year round apparently.
Afghanistan from what I've seen is a beautiful country. Rolling hills, majestic mountains, flat plains, green pastures, IED's, mortars, rockets, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, illegal militia's, druglords, warlords, great place to raise a family.
The Afghan people that I have had the pleasuare of working with are warm, friendly, and seem to want to make the their country a better place. They also carry fully automatic assault rifles, and I wouldn't trust most of them as far as I can throw them. Being here is like I got dropped on an alien planet. The Muslim philosiphy is as strange to me as I am sure that we are to them. I have seen women in burka's, women in headscarves, and women going to a nearby German-ran school, so I know that this country is making progress.
I hope that my year here goes by quickly, I believe in the job that we are doing here, after all ladies and germs, this is where GWOT(Global War on Terror) started. The people that planned, financed, and executed nearly 3000 of my countryman were here, I just hope that the rest of the world remembers that we are here and not everyone is in Iraq.
I wish that I could tell all of you more details about what I am doing and what I have seen(and the funny things that makes the Army what it is). I am however trying to remain semi-anonymous, and operational security being what it is, I can't divulge facts that may endanger myself or my fellow Soldiers. So, to my family and friends, I love you all, please send me letters and stuff, and also, a plane ticket out of here, to anywhere, I don't care. (just kidding about the plane ticket, maybe)
Afghanistan from what I've seen is a beautiful country. Rolling hills, majestic mountains, flat plains, green pastures, IED's, mortars, rockets, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, illegal militia's, druglords, warlords, great place to raise a family.
The Afghan people that I have had the pleasuare of working with are warm, friendly, and seem to want to make the their country a better place. They also carry fully automatic assault rifles, and I wouldn't trust most of them as far as I can throw them. Being here is like I got dropped on an alien planet. The Muslim philosiphy is as strange to me as I am sure that we are to them. I have seen women in burka's, women in headscarves, and women going to a nearby German-ran school, so I know that this country is making progress.
I hope that my year here goes by quickly, I believe in the job that we are doing here, after all ladies and germs, this is where GWOT(Global War on Terror) started. The people that planned, financed, and executed nearly 3000 of my countryman were here, I just hope that the rest of the world remembers that we are here and not everyone is in Iraq.
I wish that I could tell all of you more details about what I am doing and what I have seen(and the funny things that makes the Army what it is). I am however trying to remain semi-anonymous, and operational security being what it is, I can't divulge facts that may endanger myself or my fellow Soldiers. So, to my family and friends, I love you all, please send me letters and stuff, and also, a plane ticket out of here, to anywhere, I don't care. (just kidding about the plane ticket, maybe)
posted by L.A. Soldier at 8:40 AM
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