Kandahar

   I have not added anything to this blog in a few months.  The next few posts will mostly be about the past year, and not much in the way of politics.  This last year pretty much kicked my rear end.  I spent the first six months working my normal job in Afghanistan.  The only problem was dodging periodic rocket attacks, which were not really a problem.
  In July, I had to go to kandahar for a month.  Kandahar is a hotter place than Bagram.  It is so crowded with NATO troops that sleeping arrangements are lousy.  Food is great though.  The British mess hall there cannot be beat.  It is extremely clean and the food is great!  So a lot of times, for lunch, we would go over there.  There was also a dutch restaurant called Echos. The first time I saw it I was amazed. It is an indoor sit down restaurant.  A real nice place although pricey.  Of course, most of us were willing to pay.
Kandahar is also a lot dustier. There are a lot of dust devils there.  There are a couple of places where they would form in the exact same place everyday.  Some of them were small and some were very large. Weird looking things.  They are just tornadoes of brown dust.
Kandahar has many more rocket attacks than Bagram.  It seemed like we had one every day, sometimes twice.  After a while, you get so used to them that you notice them, but you keep on doing what you were before hand.  We rarely went into the bunkers.  I always figured that if I was hearing the sirens, then they already missed me.