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Oct. 23, 2006 Well, I haven’t been around for a while because my job sent me into Afghanistan . While there both phone and internet communication is very restricted to business, but that’s okay. I am permitted into the various “internet cafés” but it is more important to give time to the soldiers who are trying to send their love notes and other communications back home. No need me tying up time sending Useless-knowledge articles. It is November now, but that final week of October into November was pleasant enough. The evenings were very cool because the skies were clear of overcast. The days were hot enough where I was, but Bagram is surrounded by mountains and white caps could be seen. The snows were on the way. The base at Bagram allows locals to sell their wares alongside the AAFES (Army/Air Force Exchange Service) and the base was touting its grand opening of a new “Popeye’s Fried Chicken” outlet joining the resident “Burger King” and “Ciano’s” pizzeria. One of the base DFACs (Dining Facility), being run by KBR (Kellogg/Brown& Root), put on a pretty fair spread too. My first dinner there included a T-bone steak and scallops. I could have included a lobster tail, but I really have to be in the mood for lobster. I tried the gumbo, which was decently doused with crawfish, shrimp and hefty chunks of a locally produced spicy sausage; topped with a salad I was eating quite kingly. The flight from Kuwait (still running temperatures of 100 plus) was comfortable enough thanks to the Air Force. The temperature in Bagram upon arrival (45 degrees) called for a longer sleeved shirt and a jacket. It felt much colder. I believe I am finally acclimated to Kuwait ’s daily desert onslaught of heat. There are a lot of soldiers on Bagram. I had already trained a few that were permitted by the command to travel to my classroom TDY (Temporary Duty) to Kuwait . I bumped into a couple of these soldiers who had to stop me and thank me for showing them how best to work the computer systems I teach. That type of show of appreciation doesn’t happen often, so when it does happen I get quite a morale boost. I have probably mentioned this before, but I do what I do because soldiers are important to me. I want them all to do well. I want them all to see the value of military service. They don’t have to be careerists, but I encourage every one I speak with to learn all they can and to stay in as long as they are learning. I have seen and I see the differences between young men and women who have that background of discipline, opposed to those who shun military service. There are remarkable differences to be seen in maturity levels and reasoning abilities. I might be biased. American soldiers are the finest people in the world. It doesn’t matter how many horror stories you might read in the press. Ninety percent of those stories speak of the fewer than one percent of all soldiers who have failed to live up to the military Code of Ethics; while barely ten percent of all media stories speak of the ninety-nine percent of all soldiers doing the fantastic work of protecting America. It is a little like what you’ve been hearing from the halls of Congress. Ninety percent of the corruption stories are about the one or two bad Republican apples while only one percent of the good stories are about the booming economy or the successes in stifling domestic terror. We hear nothing good about anyone on the leftist side of the isle; neither do we hear anything bad. Of course, that is by leftist media design. Keeping liberals and their real agenda out of the news is vital to their personal reelection efforts. I am writing all of this in my notebook, pre-election, and I haven’t seen a newspaper since October 24th, (now the 31st). The election should be completed by the time I am back into Kuwait receiving my daily doses of liberalism through the “Stars and Stripes”. I say the election “should” be over. But I know how Democrats like to concede and then un-concede defeat; break out their ACLU minions and fight any close election to the last hanging chad. So control of Congress might not be settled before everyone needs to be home for Christmas. I will hope though. Anyway, if you are reading this then know that I have returned from my mini-travels and I can now get to a computer on a regular basis. My inbox is as full as when I left and there is a stack of “Stripes” I haven’t gone through yet. I deliberately did not take my copy of Ann Coulter’s “Godless” because I wanted to be close to a keyboard while reading about liberal stupidity should I be inclined to opine. I have been writing this one long-hand and my fingers hurt. ------------ About the Author: Michael John McCrae has contributed over 500 articles to Useless-Knowledge.com. Email: macswordV@hotmail.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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