Category Archives: deployment

Along with all the other times, the military (mostly Army) has specific vocabulary for transitions, turnovers, overlaps and transfers of responsibility from one organization to another. One of those terms that has evolved is the “left seat – right seat” … Continue reading →

And it is another fine day here in Afghanistan.   The sun is shining and I have managed to round up my replacement, get him to breakfast and start the orientation. Should I mention that I was meeting an inbound group … Continue reading →

3.14 ….. for those of you who are still mentally working their way through the joke. Go have a piece of pie. Otherwise, I am scrambling to sort out various projects, track down the in-bound replacement personnel and decide what … Continue reading →

Scotland might have snow, and Japan obviously has rain, cloud cover and thousands of square kilometers of tragedy. It is probably raining in the rest of the UK; I have been afraid to even look at the US weather patterns. … Continue reading →

After standing by for several flights on Thurs in Kuwait (all of which were canceled), starting early Friday morning the AF reorganized their flight schedule once again. Means that, instead of two flights a day (to be changed, canceled or … Continue reading →

It was about 2200 last night when we found out why the flight was delayed. There would be two young service members making their final return trip to the US – with the first leg being Kandahar to Kuwait on … Continue reading →

The good thing about stopping at the PAX terminal immediately after classes today was finding that the 0015 show time was now 1645. Since it was 1615, this gave the two of us just about enough time to dash back … Continue reading →

Unlike Bagram where I have my own private little corder of BHut, the billeting arrangements on the road vary. In the case of Kandahar – the DV women’s quarters are back in one of the MODS which means an interior … Continue reading →

“the places you’ll go, the people you’ll meet” with applogies to Dr Seus Especially the people. I meeting interesting people just sitting around in the lounge between 2100 show time and 0000 when it becomes obvsious that our flight is … Continue reading →

Let me lead with the important first. Maus has her 18th birthday today and The Mole had his yesterday (#20). As you can probably guess, in years past it means that we have had a busy couple of days with … Continue reading →

It struck me about 1100 this morning that today is Friday, not Saturday. The long list of everything I needed to do prior returning to Craig Joint Theater Hospital for another run of PDHAs did not need to be finished in the … Continue reading →

been working at this course full time for the last two days. And trying to convince the laundry that I need my clean clothes. And doing post deployment health assesments on our unit between 1800-2200 everynight. Would you believe that I am … Continue reading →

I would really like to be sitting here and telling you I have everything together. That the room for this iteration of the course was ready to go, that I didn’t have to make three calls in order to track … Continue reading →