Days go by

Due to an Afghan holiday and an unscheduled trip to Jalalabad for the new guys, we have now spent 5 days with them, and I have done exactly 1 day of turnover! It's not a big deal, we should be able to finish it up in a few days, it just seems like they have been here forever and we haven't gotten anything done.

We are adjusting to our transient lives....I think our accommodations will slowly go down hill until we finally leave theater, but that will be a good day! We have our last week mapped out, and it mainly involves ensuring all of our equipment is accounted for, cleaning weapons, washing our body armor and packing up our own stuff. At some point we are supposed to have an awards ceremony - that may lead to some fireworks, more later on that if something happens that I expect to happen.

Our event for the week was postponed, we expect to finish that this week, as well as have a going away party with the ANA. They are really very sentimental about us leaving.

I managed to skip over the 11 month mark of our time here at Blackhorse. It was a week or so back. As I said before life has accelerated and things are slipping at times. I am really looking forward to getting into May.

Change 1000 to our coming home plan, we now go to Norfolk first for a few days, and then we can stay in Norfolk or go Pt Hueneme to finish the De-mobilize process. The Norfolk people have to sit around for 5 days, so I am heading to CA to get done as soon as possible. No reason to wait, although getting paid to sit and do just about nothing is always nice. I hope this is the last change as typically when changes come down, they aren't for the better.

Gary