September Part Deuce & Some of October!

September Part Deuce

Here are a couple of our officers that ran a half marathon (13.1 miles)!

I told I would hook them up with an IV afterwards.

I felt bad that I didn't run it so I ran 16.1 miles after I gave them their IVs.

Here are some of my Birthday boxes!

So my chair finally broke the day before my birthday!

So I got a new chair that has wheels that roll on the floor. I couldn't get the picture to rotate

Happy Birthday to me. Here I am with my birthday ice cream.

Whitney sent me cake that she baked in mason jars.... but it was moldy when it arrived here :( 

Now its time to buckle in and go out on mission!

This is my view from my seat! That is a netting around our vehicle. Top secret stuff that makes us safe! 

Me in my seat! 

Here is my .50 Cal gunner Sergeant Da Re. He seems to always take pictures of himself.

"I guess I should just be happy they are appropriate pictures"

Da Re's View 

Early morning sun on the convoy. 

And boy did it get dusty! 

Afghanistan licence plate.

This is how the Afghans roll out. 

The American and Afghan convoy commanders! 

These guys told me to email them their picture to their "GMAIL" accounts!

Proof that Google is every where! 

Rear staging area. Getting ready to get crazy! 

Front staging area.

This friendly guy kept staring at me. 

Here is our Linguist on the right. We call him GQ because of his hair. 

The Americans and Afghanis trading chewing tobacco.

They hate our chew, and we hate their chew. They have some sort of narcotics in theirs! 

 Time to do some inventory of all of our crap we brought!

DoMyOwnPestControl  hooked it up with a TON of Halloween costumes and decorations!

Today we got two big boxes of Halloween and Thanksgiving Decor from the USO! 

So our base here is split into halfs. The Aviation side/Cavalry side. The Cav side is super strict on their uniform policy. And the Aviation side is not. And for some reason the Cav is super strict on what can be worn in the chow hall???? Don't ask me why because I have no idea why???? 

The Cavalry hates our pilot attitude. They call us"The Fly Boy Club" . So one of our female pilots put this costume on and went to the chow hall! You could see all of the Cav guys giving her the stare down.

Costume compliments of DoMyOwnPest Control.

Now its time for some Pumpkin carving! 

Here is our Halloween medic tent!

And here it is at night.

The MP's tent! 

And another decorated tent. 

So we got some Styrofoam pumkins called FUNKINS!

Here are some of the ones we did I will list the artist from left to right.

(DeMass, Holman, Eastabrook, DeMass, Eastabrook)

Here is my Air Pirate pumpkin. 

This Jack Skelintion Pumpkin took about 4 hours to carve! 

Here is my Nightmare Before Christmas pumpkin.

With Jack Skelington! 

Nothing says Halloween like some Bloody Dexter Tools! 

Here I am doing a little surgery on someones head! 

Hands of a Surgeon! LOL.... At least that's what I told the patient!

After surgery, and he is all stitched up!

 A week later I am about to take the stitches out!

Here I am getting an award. The Pirate skull in the background is named Pirate Mike! 

Here are some of the MP's we go out on mission with the night before they get to go home. 

They had a Pie Eating Contest. They guy that won had to eat Pecan Pie!!! I can barely eat one piece of that.

Here is the group of MP's and Linguist that we would go out on missions with! 

Me and Colonel Scott! Prior SF guy. 

Here is our medevac  blackhawk.

This is what the German SF guys roll around in. 

Big Windy coming in for a landing!

This is me writing my Final paper for my Anatomy and Physiology class! 

This is my sleep area. I hope you like the mood lights!

Our friend Deena and the Colonel about to go kick some butt!!

About to take off.

Birds eye view of Afghanistan 

Cool lake in the middle of nowhere!  

History Lesson: Afghanistan had the largest Buddhist statues in the world. They were constructed in the 6th Century between the years 545 to 595. In 2001 the Taliban thought it would be a good idea to blow them up as they were idols of a different god.

So the big hole in the mountain side used to be a Buddha statue.

So all of our wives went on vacation and took a picture at the hot tub like the one below. And then sent it to all the husbands! We thought we would return the favor by taking a picture at a pool that our motor pool guys made. Then it started getting a little crazy!

Our pirate ship.

Now its time to relax. 

Here is my ticket to FOB KUNDUZ's first October fest.

Put on by the Germans that are close by. 

Here is a silhouette of me and SGT Blunt. I am wearing a pirate hat in this picture. This new cavalry unit got here and they always wear their dumb cowboy hats with their uniforms. So to make it even I wore a pirate hat. I thought I would get in trouble, but instead I think I introduced our battalion to their new Battalion Hat!

I even got the sergeant major to where my Pirate hat! 

Me and Colonel Wittke. The guy that made this all possible. 

Here is the Doc and his Pilot wife! I am a good photographer!

Here I am in my seat looking for bad guys! 

This is my view looking down the streets looking for spotters and bad guys! 

On the lookout! 

One of the areas where the bad guy ran through! 

Time to get out and look for him now!

This is the most dangerous road around here! 

Here is a pic of my seat. 

Scanning for IED's 

Lets go find this guy! 

The little abandoned town where the bad guy ran into to! 

Taking over watch of the town. 

Working hand in hand with the Afghans 

More Afghans  

Strategic Planning

Now we wait. To see if the other team can flush the bad guy out! 

The Wrecker!

Send in the trucks 

Me and the commander  

Looking forward as we drive further down the road! 

This is how the Afghans role around!

I will take the Armor plating please!

So now we drive through town, so here are a bunch of pics of driving around

I'm not sure what the deal is, but there are Pepsi logos EVERYWHERE!!!!! 

Goat crossing 

What ever they drive wether its a donkey, camel, or small truck they load it with as much crap as they can. 

This is a check point. You can also see some of the Afghan women walking around all covered up! 

Look how many people they get on these motorcycle wagon things. 

These crowded little areas are always sketchy! People always run across the road or try to hide.

Our convoy. 

Now get your butt on the chopper and lets fly around! 

He really is yelling, but its because we can't hear anything while we are flying.

 

Good thing he is strapped in! 

Looking for bad guys 

The other bird with us. 

Flying to drop some of these guys off.

We picked up some German SF guys 

Coming in for a landing! 

Refueling after a long flight! 

A real can of "Whoop A$$" 

My view. 

And in for another landing 

Yeah buddy 

See you later my German brothers! 

Call me sometime! ha ha haaaa 

Its hot in here! 

So there I was Facetiming with my wife when she said let me see your legs! 

(She may be a little crazy and likes to look at them.) She secretly took this pic and posted it on Facebook. She finally showed me the picture she snapped, and I was like "Those are my legs?" Even I'm impressed!