OKay! The rest of my pictures from Afghanistan.

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Okay! Well, I left Camp Leatherneck at 12:30 in the morning my time on the 5th, which was 3:pm Eastern on the 4th. By the time I got to sleep I had been up for well over 24 hours, so I needed to go to bed. The transit base here is pretty nice and has rockin' wi-fi, so I've been able to take some time to upload some. So here they are, folks, if you really care. Pictures follow descriptions.




This is me by my HMMWV after going out the first day it rained. The dirt roads were nothing but mud and I was the gunner, so all the water that splashed up came directly all over me.




Me in the turret of the 7-Ton troop carrier



In the back of the HMMWV




I walked in the tent and they told me to try a dog biscuit. Said it tasted like goldfish. I said it tasted like jerky. Then AJ (the brit) said to try it with peanut butter, so

we did. We were less than thrilled with the outcome.




A game of checkers some students made for a Valentine's care package



My post at the Gravel pit from on top of the gravel pile



One of the truck drivers had a pet moneky. Naturally, I had to feed it a banana.



A stereotypical Jingle truck. At the end is a video of why we call it a jingle truck. All of the individual colors are stickers that have been cut and applied by hand. Gotta

admit that there's a lot of work in some of these.













Outside the coffe shop over on Camp Bastion. We'd hang out there with our

British counterparts after work on a lot of days.



Riding the C-130 from Kyrgyzstan over to Camp Bastion/Leatherneck



One of the cakes that was served on the Marine Corps birthday (November 10, 1775)



My rifle at Christmas with battery operated LED christmas lights



Some of the food displays for the Christmas feast



Chow hall sentry during Christmas



A cake






Cake






Me out front of our Christmas tree (I have NO idea where they got it from) on Christmas day at the MEP enjoying a hot cup of Earl Grey. And we frosted the tree with white spray

paint.






The Marines of my MEP crew, along with a couple of British Dog handlers



A Danish tank that came through. Thought it looked awesome.



We got a Mercedes emblem from one of the trucks and tied it to our HMMWV



I put this picture in there because there isn't much to to in Afghanistan, and as such I spent a lot of my time in the gym working out.



Lara (the Peruvian guy holding my shirt up) came into my hooch with some Bahranis and as I recall, he was busting my balls about standing around in my underwear. One of the

Bahrainis took this picture, and I loved the look on his face. The whole thing is so absurd it had to go up. You can see my mini tree in the back.



This is Sam Khan, one of the Bahrain Special Security Forces that came over to help us out. Some of us became pretty good friends in the short time they were there.



Where there's a will, there's a way. THis is what I affectionately call "Hajji
Magic" - or the result of some off-the-wall ingenuity to make something work that seemingly shouldn't.



Pat, Raja, Me, Loco, and Lara



All of the Bahrainis that we worked with and us on their last night in Afghanistan



Justin and I next to a Jingle truck



Playing Uno with Loco, Sam, and Ali



Duke, the bomb dog agreed to pose for us.




Lara and I above the Bahraini commander



In my turret with my 240B



Loco in my HMMWV







Okay. This is the reason Jingle trucks get their names. It's either little bells like this, or small pieces of metal on the end of the chain, usually shaped like a heart or a diamond.




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