A year in Afghanistan: Getting caught up

I have had some pictures that I was going to post for a while now. Unfortunately, the internet is extremely slow here and I have been too lazy to upload the pics. My paralegals guilted me into today, so this blog will mostly be pictures.

The first couple pictures are about a month old. The Frog was in our office a couple days before I went on R&R. I kept trying to catch him to put him outside, but he would keep jumping away from me and hiding. And as soon I would go back to working, he would come back out and sit there and stare at me.

The next 2 pictures are from my flight from KAF to Kuwait. Most people fly on a C-17 out of KAF to Kuwait. That is only about a 3 hours flight. Unfortunately for me, when I was trying to leave on R&R, the C-17s were broken. So I got put on a C-130. On a C-130, the flight time is a little over 6 hours. There were over 50 of us on that plane, and we were packed in there like sardines. It was definitely the most uncomfortable I have ever been for a 6 hour period. Imagine being a plane for 6 hours, but your seat is made of cargo netting, and you are elbow to elbow with the people on each side of you, and if all that isn't enough, your knees are in between the person's leg who is sitting facing you. If it wasn't the beginning of my R&R, I probably would have cared a lot more. Luckily, coming back from R&R, I was on a C-17 and there were only about 30 of us. The plane holds more than a 100.

The next picture is of my old boss's going away ceremony, which coincided with the 4th of July, hence the american decorations.

The last few were taken today. Today was PFC Fitzgerald's promotion to Specialist. So now she is officially SPC Fitzgerald. It has been a long time coming and something that she worked extremely hard for. We are all very proud of her for achieving her goal. COL Campanella, the division SJA came to her ceremony along with some other paralegals from Division. We all took a photo after the ceremony, that is the last one.