Going nowhere fast 2.0 (now with 100% less progress)
Ξ October 5th, 2006 | → 3 Comments | ∇ Middle East, PCS |
Still no new orders, so were still sitting here at Arifjan waiting to go to Ali Al Salem to get ready to get on flights from which we’ll get bumped by active military personnel. Wind has picked up today and it’s getting really dusty. I can only imagine what these dust storms I hear about are like.
Talked to an ITT guy from Kabul today who’s on base for training. Apparently Bagram and Kabul are about the same for quality of life, but he likes Kabul a bit better. Hour convoy or 15 minute chopper flight from Bagram to Kabul, no clue which one we’ll get.
 Got a hit from a Raytheon head hunter for PKI stuff in Iraq… well over a quarter mil a year. I’d be sorely tempted on that, but I just signed on with ITT and am not one to bail on a contract, not to mention I’d probably end up seperated from Tera for a year.
Internet options here at Arifjan for us at the moment seems to be $5 and hour to plug my laptop in for good bandwith, or use the heavily locked down PC’s at the MWR facilities with not so snappy bandwith for free. Mostly using the free stuff for now.
Chow is ok, little better variety than I initially thought. It does seem to give everybody rank nasty gas though.
Everybody is really bored and just wants to get to where were going and get settled. Packing and un-packing every day with all the false starts is annoying. At least we get paid for all this. And speaking of getting paid, the first pay check with the sign on bonus just showed up in my account, nice.
Both Tera and my smallpox vacinations are starting to blister and get really annoying and itchy (as expected), hope they run their course quickly.
I’ve got some Arifjan & tent photos, but due to the afore mentioned free vs. paid internet access I really can’t upload them at the moment, but will as soon as I can.
Whelp, I think I’ve rambled on out of boredom enough. If you’ve made it this far, your either very bored yourself or related to me. :-p