Friday, December 24, 2010

Merry Christmas from Afghanistan!

A Colts Christmas!

I'll keep today's update short and to the point-  Thanks!  Without all of your strong support, spending the holidays away from home would be unimaginable.  Rather than updating the blog over the past few days, I've been assembling a sort of "Year in Review" Christmas letter.



SPC Cashion, our in-house elf and I


A few of our interpretor/cultural advisors and I during our
team Christmas party

For those of you who don't really know me all that well, I think this letter should give you a little better glimpse into my life.  As you'll see, I've been blessed with the best family and friends a man could ask for.

Merry Christmas from FOB Salerno, Afghanistan!  Pictures to follow from the dining hall as it is decorated quite festive once again...


My office looked more like a war zone by the time I was done opening all of the packages.

3 comments:

  1. Merry Christmas, Bart. Dumb question, but is there anywhere over there you can jump in an airplane get some flight time?

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  2. Loved the Christmas card Bart ... looking forward to making LOTS of memories in 2011 :)

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  3. Paul- there are no dumb questions on here, happy to see some reader involvement! Unfortunately the only fixed wing aircraft around here are C-130's that come in for a combat landing on our gravel strip, offload incoming pax and cargo, load outgoing pax and cargo, and take back off for Bagram all within about a 15 minute timeframe without shutting down the engines. It's way too dangerous for a fixed-wing assets to be sitting around the FOB here. They call it "Rocket City" for a reason ;-)

    SEJ- Glad you enjoyed the card, thanks for being a part of so many great memories in 2010!

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