Live from Afghanistan, it's Saturday night! Or, t_b_f's on the road!

This should brighten your day... Tuesday is Karle's Koffeehouse -- the annual event where Fox6 sends professional journalists, Rick Karle and Paul Finebaum to Saban's house for morning coffee, yuks and fellatio of the greatest goddamn coach in the universe.

 

Here is probably the best slideshow I've seen from our unit's operations since we arrived in February: http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2010/06/army-medevac-in-afghanistan.html

 

Wow. Moving, stirring, heroic, scary, and disturbing.

Stay safe.

 

Here are a couple of videos on my MEDEVAC peeps.

CPT Jaeger is my roomie. Ramos is my favorite medic. She has absolutely HUGE dimples an a wonderful smile, and Strother is a die-hard LSU fan, so we argue a lot.

Part 1:

Part 2:

 

Boy, are you going to to piss Strother off in another week....

 

Mad props to my man Slappy, for sending a long-sleeve Bama national championship shirt. Once it gets below 110 in the shade, I'll break it out and slap it on for a SJ photo op.

Everything's going well out this way. It's starting to get busy (seven died in and around Kandahar today) as more ground troops start to hit the ground. With the end of Ramadan and national elections approaching, next week is probably going to be the beginning of a rough couple of months for all involved.

Just over a month until I hit R&R and the States for two weeks.

 

Stay safe, my man. I imagine it's going to be a very sweet trip back to the good ole' U.S. of A.

 

Here's a Facebook album posted by our brigade's public affairs folks.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/album.php?aid=195778&id=122692531967

Hopefully, you guys can see it.

 

Very cool photos, Bags
You guys stay safe and keep that free flag flying.
That's a complex situation over there and I'm almost certain the residents will ultimately choose to not buy into democracy as we here know democracy.
Just do what you can while you are there. I'm proud as hell of military folks like you who've answered the call, regardless of the circumstances or your personal feelings.
Hell of job y'all are doing, carrying out your missions.

If you can get to an AFN channel and sit for a spell in the next 24 hours, Southern Miss journeys to face South Carolina. It's football season, bud. Hurry home.

 

NOOOOOO!!!

 

I know it's cliché, but there's a first time for everything.

For the first time since I arrived in Afghanistan -- more than five months, 135 missions, 200 patients and 150 flight hours ago -- I have been skunked on a duty cycle. We didn't have a single mission. The only time my radio made a peep was when someone sat on theirs and accidentally pressed the push-to-talk button.

I mean, we're not over here praying for missions or anything, but 48 hours of nothing but sitting, reading, smoking, eating and shitting is pretty damned boring. I mean, c'mon! Someone in Kandahar Province had a toothache or a twisted ankle or something, right?

But I did enjoy watching Virginia Tech get beat at 0430.

 

So there's butt-dailing in Afghanistan?

Progress is being made!

(keep up the good work. We are proud of you and your team!).