Who would have thought that after a successful career in the U.S. Army, I would once again deploy to a war zone. Chris gets credit for coming up with the title to this blog. "Way to be Retired, Old Man!" was his response to the news that I would be going down range. This time I am going to Afghanistan as a civilian non-combatant. I intend to use this little blog as a means to share my experiences and to communicate with all of my friends and family. I will try to provide a weekly update with a few photographs sprinkled among pleas for care packages as I complete my one-year assignment to Afghanistan. I know that I will be extremely busy working there so by using this blog, I hope to save some time and reduce the amount of individual emails I send out.
I have two more weeks of training before my departure on August 21st. I will actually arrive in Kabul on August 23rd. The plans are to spend about a week in Kabul, then move out to Mazar-I-Sharif. I will work in Mazar for about 6-8 weeks.
Feel free to let me know how you are doing by posting a comment to this post or by sending me an email at my yahoo account. I will be able to use Skype for video calls home as well. I hope to be able to Skype with Terry almost every day while I am in Afghanistan.
I will try to post again the weekend of August 18th, just before I depart. In the mean time, warm regards to all! Rich
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