And Time Marches On

  I have not blogged here for several years.  Sometimes life gets in the way of things.
The last eight years have been crazy.  In 2008 I went to Afghanistan as a contractor.  I lived there for two years.  My job was providing maintenance services to the different military groups.  A regional support center located in Bagram.  I was the deputy manager.
  In November of 2010, I had a health issue.  I woke up from a coma three weeks later in Houston, Tx.    My decision to go there in the first place was a mix of money, they paid really well, and wanting to get back in a military environment.  Some of us old soldiers never get over it I guess.
  While there, I had to work a lot with the Afghani's.  I learned a lot about their culture and beliefs.
Then I learned what they really thought of us.
  We had several afghan civilians that worked for us.  I would go down the main gate and process them into the base, then take them to our facility to work. At the end of the day they were taken back to the gate to process back out.  They were not allowed to stay overnight.
Getting a clearance for these guys to work was a nightmare.  Obviously security was primary.  Toward the end of 2010, one of the guys was picked up by our MP's and given over to afghan security.  We never saw him again and just heard rumors of the reason.