Long Overdue!
I know, I know...it's been forever since I updated and I feel bad. It took me almost 3 months to get satellite internet here. I wasn't fortunate enough to live on the west side of Bagram (they have an isp over there) they stuck me on the east side, pretty much in the middle of nowhere. The satellite internet is usually slow, because of the 20+ people on it. at least it works though. I was plugging in my netbook directly to a server at work and the speeds were actually good. Sadly they caught on and blocked all web access, I can still Skype with Melissa with it though. I'm thankful for that because we can hardly talk to each other with Skype on the satellite line.
At first when I got here they put 7 of us in an 8 person B-Hut, i had my own room with sheets for walls, it was nice. I actually had some privacy and a little place to call my own. Then the civilians took charge (I hate them for this) decided 8 people in a B-Hut was too much of a luxury for us, so they decided to put up 12 people in each B-Hut. Well there went my privacy. Now I'm sleeping on the top bunk with a roommate who's on opposite shifts as me, so on my day off I can't make any noise or turn any lights on for fear of being a dick and waking him up, so usually I just go to work anyways and hang out. I was originally on the bottom bunk on the other side of the B-Hut, but the 40 year old lazy, ignorant, smelly, bad breath, doesn't know anything about our job, everyone hates him, dips Copenhagen in his sleep, guy decided it would be a good idea to sleep on the top of my bunk...lol. So I decided to give up my bottom bunk rights to sleep next to a heater that blows on me all night because I dislike him that much:P I won't say his name, but I'm sure you've all known someone like that in your life...or at least someone that annoys you just as much.
Anyways, enough about my living conditions. Let's move along to my working conditions. Before we left they through our little task force together, we had no tools issued to us. In fact, we had to buy a cheap tool set from wal-mart just to work on the aircraft! lol. Well deploying to Afghanistan didn't change anything. We still had no tools and hardly any manpower. We have two shifts working 12 hours each. From 12:30 AM to 12:30 PM is my shift. I prefer working nights, the brass are sleeping while I do my job, keeps them out of my hair. most other units are working 8 hour days because they have enough people for it, I don't even really feel jealous...there is nothing to do here and I would rather be working than pondering how bored I am. It makes the time go by faster.
Camp Warrior (where my B-Hut is at) shares the shower trailers and bathrooms with transient tents from all sorts of coalition countries. The Jordanians are the worst by far. They are nice, at least they appear to be...I don't speak Arabic so I don't know what they say after they give me a friendly smile:P What makes them disgusting is how they wash their feet in the bathroom sink even though there is a shower stall 6 ft. away. I know it's for religious purposes...but people shave and brush their teeth in that sink, it's disgusting. When they take a crap, they don't sit down on a toilet seat...they stand on it and squat down, sometimes missing the hole all together. They don't use any of the toilet paper provided for them by the U.S. Tax payers (yeah, a shout out to you guys(-; ) they instead use bottled drinking water from outside and wipe with water and their left hand, and you never see them wash their hands after taking a crap either. oh! and this one time, I went to take a shower...almost stepped into the stall, but before I did I noticed a turd on the floor...lmao who shits in a shower? must of been a really lazy Jordanian that wanted to knock out two birds with one stone...his monthly shower, and wiping with water and his hand.
Anyways, so far this deployment has been like living at a flying circus or something. No one knows what the hell is going on, and it looks like it's going to stay that way for awhile lol.
P.S. I broke my camera's LCD screen, so I have no idea what pictures look like till I upload them on my computer, that and the satellite is so slow it's nearly impossible to upload anything over 100kb lol. I'll think of some way of getting some photos to upload with posts later.
At first when I got here they put 7 of us in an 8 person B-Hut, i had my own room with sheets for walls, it was nice. I actually had some privacy and a little place to call my own. Then the civilians took charge (I hate them for this) decided 8 people in a B-Hut was too much of a luxury for us, so they decided to put up 12 people in each B-Hut. Well there went my privacy. Now I'm sleeping on the top bunk with a roommate who's on opposite shifts as me, so on my day off I can't make any noise or turn any lights on for fear of being a dick and waking him up, so usually I just go to work anyways and hang out. I was originally on the bottom bunk on the other side of the B-Hut, but the 40 year old lazy, ignorant, smelly, bad breath, doesn't know anything about our job, everyone hates him, dips Copenhagen in his sleep, guy decided it would be a good idea to sleep on the top of my bunk...lol. So I decided to give up my bottom bunk rights to sleep next to a heater that blows on me all night because I dislike him that much:P I won't say his name, but I'm sure you've all known someone like that in your life...or at least someone that annoys you just as much.
Anyways, enough about my living conditions. Let's move along to my working conditions. Before we left they through our little task force together, we had no tools issued to us. In fact, we had to buy a cheap tool set from wal-mart just to work on the aircraft! lol. Well deploying to Afghanistan didn't change anything. We still had no tools and hardly any manpower. We have two shifts working 12 hours each. From 12:30 AM to 12:30 PM is my shift. I prefer working nights, the brass are sleeping while I do my job, keeps them out of my hair. most other units are working 8 hour days because they have enough people for it, I don't even really feel jealous...there is nothing to do here and I would rather be working than pondering how bored I am. It makes the time go by faster.
Camp Warrior (where my B-Hut is at) shares the shower trailers and bathrooms with transient tents from all sorts of coalition countries. The Jordanians are the worst by far. They are nice, at least they appear to be...I don't speak Arabic so I don't know what they say after they give me a friendly smile:P What makes them disgusting is how they wash their feet in the bathroom sink even though there is a shower stall 6 ft. away. I know it's for religious purposes...but people shave and brush their teeth in that sink, it's disgusting. When they take a crap, they don't sit down on a toilet seat...they stand on it and squat down, sometimes missing the hole all together. They don't use any of the toilet paper provided for them by the U.S. Tax payers (yeah, a shout out to you guys(-; ) they instead use bottled drinking water from outside and wipe with water and their left hand, and you never see them wash their hands after taking a crap either. oh! and this one time, I went to take a shower...almost stepped into the stall, but before I did I noticed a turd on the floor...lmao who shits in a shower? must of been a really lazy Jordanian that wanted to knock out two birds with one stone...his monthly shower, and wiping with water and his hand.
Anyways, so far this deployment has been like living at a flying circus or something. No one knows what the hell is going on, and it looks like it's going to stay that way for awhile lol.
P.S. I broke my camera's LCD screen, so I have no idea what pictures look like till I upload them on my computer, that and the satellite is so slow it's nearly impossible to upload anything over 100kb lol. I'll think of some way of getting some photos to upload with posts later.
Dont go judging Jordanians based on a bathroom you walked into. I bet a cheap bathroom in wherever you come from wouldn't be much cleaner so stfu and stop saying all kinds of false crap.
I don't think it's called judging when you see it for yourself.