Afghan National Police truck
Me, dressed all silly
Me, dressed sorta silly
the entrance to Chicken Street - rather disappointing!Hey ya'll! I know it's been a long time since I posted, but things are really pretty boring over here. I just attend meetings and pass along information. I have had the opportunity to take a few more pictures, but it's nothing exciting. I will try to upload them after I write this blog. Who knows, maybe it will even work for me this time.
Like I said before, things here are really busy. I've been working with all kinds of folks trying to figure out how to best teach the local people how to run a government without all the bad guys. We are really working on trying to teach the police how to be police. For so long this country has been without a real police force that even simple things are sometimes very difficult. For example, the literacy rate is well below 50%. It is very hard to teach someone how to be a cop and write a report if he can't read.
We have also been working within our unit trying to figure out our "mid tour" leave. Down where I'm at we are so small that we can only have one person gone at a time; and we have to work all of that around critical mission issues and personal schedules. It has been crazy and I wasn't really sure when to come home. I have two weddings and a new nephew/niece being born, along with all of the holidays I'll be missing. I was so torn I just kinda let the Army decide. It worked out that with everything going on that it looks 99% sure that I will be home the last half of October. I say 99% because it is the Army and they have a bad habit of making things difficult and inconvenient for individuals. So Jonathan, it looks like I'll make it to that wedding. Andrew, when that little girl......or maybe it'll be a boy (just not as good looking as Hunter, of course) arrives give her a hug and I wish I could be there. Clara and Chad, I'm sorry things didn't work out. I wish I could be there with you, but I just want to wish you two the best of luck. I know you will be happy.
Well, I suppose this is getting long enough for now. I will try to post a few pictures and hopefully my "amish" internet will work tonight.
-Ben
Like I said before, things here are really busy. I've been working with all kinds of folks trying to figure out how to best teach the local people how to run a government without all the bad guys. We are really working on trying to teach the police how to be police. For so long this country has been without a real police force that even simple things are sometimes very difficult. For example, the literacy rate is well below 50%. It is very hard to teach someone how to be a cop and write a report if he can't read.
We have also been working within our unit trying to figure out our "mid tour" leave. Down where I'm at we are so small that we can only have one person gone at a time; and we have to work all of that around critical mission issues and personal schedules. It has been crazy and I wasn't really sure when to come home. I have two weddings and a new nephew/niece being born, along with all of the holidays I'll be missing. I was so torn I just kinda let the Army decide. It worked out that with everything going on that it looks 99% sure that I will be home the last half of October. I say 99% because it is the Army and they have a bad habit of making things difficult and inconvenient for individuals. So Jonathan, it looks like I'll make it to that wedding. Andrew, when that little girl......or maybe it'll be a boy (just not as good looking as Hunter, of course) arrives give her a hug and I wish I could be there. Clara and Chad, I'm sorry things didn't work out. I wish I could be there with you, but I just want to wish you two the best of luck. I know you will be happy.
Well, I suppose this is getting long enough for now. I will try to post a few pictures and hopefully my "amish" internet will work tonight.
-Ben
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