“Shouldn’t you be home already?”
I get an email from a buddy in the States. I laugh when I read it. I tell him I got orders for this place. I tell him I’m looking for an apartment in Kabul with a view and a bunker. The truth is… complicated. I’ve been shitty about keeping up with this. I’m not going to apologize for not writing as much because I’m not delusional enough to think that too many people read this.
I’m probably going to continue being shitty about updating this but since I last logged in my buddy Thomas sent me a dick shaped water bottle. Also it snowed here in this shithole. A lot.
Hope you didn’t think that I was dead,
-N
p.s.
I’m much more likely to respond to emails since my only consistent form of internet access blocks tumblr. Send me your email in my ask if you want to know about all of the exciting places I’ve rolled my ankle.
soldierporn:
Sheepdoggin’.
[Top] A coalition member prepares to safely destroy explosives found while conducting an operation in Pul-e’Alam district, Logar province, Afghanistan.
[Bottom] A coalition member secures a rocket-propelled grenade in the backpack of another coalition member. Afghan and coalition security forces arrested a Taliban facilitator during an operation in Pul-e’Alam district, Logar province, Afghanistan, Sept. 10, 2012.
The arrested Taliban facilitator directed several insurgent cells in the region, providing weapons and instruction for attacks against Afghan and coalition forces.The Taliban facilitator also enforced Taliban law and is believed to have overseen the execution of several Afghan civilians. The security force also detained nine suspected insurgents and seized and safely destroyed several weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and more than a dozen kilograms (30 pounds) of explosive as a result of this operation.
(Photographer unknown, 10 SEP 2012.)
[Of interest to note the US flags mounted in low profile bundles at the lower back of each US member of the team. As their uniforms share a lack of any identifying patches or markers, this would be the only way to distinguish/differentiate them at a glance/distance. -R]
Yeah Pul-i-Alam is actually a fucking shithole. ALSO BUNGEE CORD TO SECURE A NOD MOUNT, WAHHHH?
