Thursday, October 7, 2010

I am at Kandahar



Hi everyone. I am safely arrived at KAF (Kandahar Air Field) and inprocessing. I have included a couple of photos. The TGIFriday's is real and on our boardwalk (tell me I am not a REMF). The other photo is 3 Mile Ridge. Its the dominant terrain here and gets used that way occasionally by the insurgents. We actually have lots of facilities here that are pretty nice. MWR, nice PX, several nice foriegn PXs (German, Dutch, and French), some restaurants, a couple gyms (the NATO one is NICE). This place is packed with NATO. We have Brits, Aussies, French, Germans, Yanks, Canadians, Slovaks, Romanians, Poles, Dutch, and of course the Afghans. Truely a multinational effort. NOt much else right now. I will be facebooking but I will try to post photos here occasionaly so until then.

4 comments:

  1. Hopefully potential emplacements on that ridge are on speed-dial?

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  2. I see what you mean now about the new fatigues and the color pattern that you talked about awhile back.

    But what does REMF mean? Or is it one of those things if I have to ask I'm not allowed to know?

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  3. Heh, I am surprised you dont' know it. REMF: Rear Echelon Mother F(*&#$. As our phones are controlled by an Iranian company and our internet is controlled by an Ex-KGB agent (I am not lying on either count) I can't talk to the defense measures dealing with 3 Mile Ridge, Jim. But its a great story which I might share over a beer/whiskey once I am back.

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  4. Aha...I learn more every day. My head is far more crammed full of science acronyms, sadly, than military ones. Most of the military ones I have are older ones or new AFRL programmatic ones.

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