I tend not to make "look at me" threads, but hopefully you'll indulge this one. I really enjoy my time on the board. I like the discourse, the fact that there are a ton of really smart people here who love this team, and people willing to invest their opinions and thought processes in an open, relatively anonymous forum. I learn a lot from a lot of you, and even the clowns like *SlyPokerDog" make me laugh sometimes. I'm probably not going to be on as much for the next year or so. I'm leaving for a year in Afghanistan today, and even if I have 'net access and time to post it'll be the opposite time of day to get a lot of back-and-forth with you guys. The program I've been selected for is called the "AfPak Hands Program", if you'd like to google a bit about it. My specific job will be to . Regardless of your opinion of the wars, what we're doing or why, I think it'll be interesting to see from a different view than your typical journalist or foot soldier what's going on in a place where there's still some "action" and good to be accomplished. I plan on bringing a helmet- and rifle-mounted videocamera with me wherever I go (wherever I can?) to document some of the things I'm doing in training and some of my interaction with the Afghan people. If you're interested, I've set up a YouTube page under the Afghan name I was given by my Pashto instructors and posted a couple of tame videos (rifle ranges, rollover training, stuff like that). I don't know if I'll blog (or be allowed to blog without filtering through military red tape), but I'll see what I can do when I get downrange. http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeUF5GLfgnmueCfswXMMP3Q brianfromwa2@gmail.com If you feel so inclined, I'd be happy to take questions or requests. Best, Brian
God bless and stay safe Brian. Keep us posted on your adventures when you can. And watch out for the Afghan police.
Hey, thanks for send that pic!! All seriousness aside, I wish you all the best....and safety!! It was great to have met you at the two M&G's! You're a class guy, Brian!
the locals call it چرس (charse), it's haram (prohibited) per Islam, and I imagine that it's a distant, distant second to opium growth and consumption, at least in Helmand province.
Keep your head up and your eyes alert. Thanks for accepting your assignment, and we'll all be here intensely arguing about things that don't matter at all to our daily life while you are in the thick of it. See you soon enough ... In hoc...
Good luck, and remember to pass the hookah stem with it folded over, not limp like a dick. That means you like them.
