AMBER ALERT! AMBER ALERT!
So, I'm chatting up this fairly hot chick at the bases coffee shop. She works for KBR so she is not affected by General Order One(you know the one that says no fun in a war zone), and she is getting all flirty and coy, and I think we might be making a little progress towards my goal of touching pink in Afghanistan. Then all of the sudden this base wide alarm goes off and the speakers start shouting Amber Alert... Now this sucks, this base is turning into camp cock-block.
Something always comes up to block any progress with a lady here. Also I hear Amber Alert, I'm thinkin who the hell took they're kid to Afghanistan? And geez, who would have the guts to kidnap a kid on base... Well apparently Amber Alert means something else here.
Everyone started running back to their respective bases, me and Rob walked back with our coffees watching everyone else scramble about, thinking maybe we are in some sort of danger?
We started moseying up to our be hut, and a sergeant who was crashing with us was yelling to us from the bunker next to our hut to put on our Kevlar and vests and get in the bunker NOW!
Wow, he was pretty adamant, but I still took a second to get my camera as well. We walked out to the bunker and I noticed everyone on base had their guns drawn, and was in full armor. It was all kinda fun until... BOOM!
It wasn't thunder, it wasn't a door slamming that was a deep resonating boom off in the distance. Where had I heard that before? Oh, I know in that movie the other day beyond borders when the Chechens were bombing the... Fuck. Boom. Boom.
Okay, so that's what all the scrambling about was for. The explosions lasted for about an hour, none were very close to us, that were all by the airport I think, but it was ominous. And I couldn't help but think, this was going to affect our flight out of here in three hours(it was cancelled due to bombs:).
So, what was it like? It was to unreal to be very scary, but you had nervous energy that was defined by the fact that you have no control over you environment. It was strange, we actually laughed an awful lot, but I think that's how you deal with stress. It was almost fun, sounds stupid doesn't it? I wouldn't want to be around mortar or Rocket fire alot but it made you joke and be human with everyone around you, cause you are all in the same boat. A new one to tell my kids, if I ever meet a girl who likes me enough to have sex again.
Hopefully I will get a plane out in the next 24 hrs to Germany, but I am not getting my hopes up. I could very well end up living in Bagram, the only homeless guy in the army base pushing around my shopping cart full of IED's and plastic water bottles. They'd call me snickery Pete, and through me cardboard Aafe's gift coins for a dime and shake their head, while other's would yell get a job, and I'd say I can't I'm waiting to fly home...
Ciao, PeteJ
PS. i have gotten a few emails of a political nature of late. This batch has been from some rather angry conservatives. Let me just state, that I am neither a republican or a democrat, i don't like alot of government as a rule, but i will freely tar and feather whoever is in a position of power. That is what satirists do. It just happens that the party in power is republican. How quickly we forget how much we made fun of that last president... So chill out, and stop with the hate email, it just damages your cause anyway and pushes me more towards the political apathy that is swallowing up my generation as a whole. Danka shein.
I will not be voting for any president until a man like John Mcain forms a third party that wants to put goverment power back in the states hands, so that individual areas of the country can make their own decisions that represent the populations in their precincts, and the federal goverment just shuts up and handles foriegn policy at arms length. I guess i'm a whigg party member, as I believe they might have been the last party to really support the concept of the US as it was initially created....cause South carolina and Washington state have two totally different cultural value systems why should one be forced to be the same as the other?
So, I'm chatting up this fairly hot chick at the bases coffee shop. She works for KBR so she is not affected by General Order One(you know the one that says no fun in a war zone), and she is getting all flirty and coy, and I think we might be making a little progress towards my goal of touching pink in Afghanistan. Then all of the sudden this base wide alarm goes off and the speakers start shouting Amber Alert... Now this sucks, this base is turning into camp cock-block.
Something always comes up to block any progress with a lady here. Also I hear Amber Alert, I'm thinkin who the hell took they're kid to Afghanistan? And geez, who would have the guts to kidnap a kid on base... Well apparently Amber Alert means something else here.
Everyone started running back to their respective bases, me and Rob walked back with our coffees watching everyone else scramble about, thinking maybe we are in some sort of danger?
We started moseying up to our be hut, and a sergeant who was crashing with us was yelling to us from the bunker next to our hut to put on our Kevlar and vests and get in the bunker NOW!
Wow, he was pretty adamant, but I still took a second to get my camera as well. We walked out to the bunker and I noticed everyone on base had their guns drawn, and was in full armor. It was all kinda fun until... BOOM!
It wasn't thunder, it wasn't a door slamming that was a deep resonating boom off in the distance. Where had I heard that before? Oh, I know in that movie the other day beyond borders when the Chechens were bombing the... Fuck. Boom. Boom.
Okay, so that's what all the scrambling about was for. The explosions lasted for about an hour, none were very close to us, that were all by the airport I think, but it was ominous. And I couldn't help but think, this was going to affect our flight out of here in three hours(it was cancelled due to bombs:).
So, what was it like? It was to unreal to be very scary, but you had nervous energy that was defined by the fact that you have no control over you environment. It was strange, we actually laughed an awful lot, but I think that's how you deal with stress. It was almost fun, sounds stupid doesn't it? I wouldn't want to be around mortar or Rocket fire alot but it made you joke and be human with everyone around you, cause you are all in the same boat. A new one to tell my kids, if I ever meet a girl who likes me enough to have sex again.
Hopefully I will get a plane out in the next 24 hrs to Germany, but I am not getting my hopes up. I could very well end up living in Bagram, the only homeless guy in the army base pushing around my shopping cart full of IED's and plastic water bottles. They'd call me snickery Pete, and through me cardboard Aafe's gift coins for a dime and shake their head, while other's would yell get a job, and I'd say I can't I'm waiting to fly home...
Ciao, PeteJ
PS. i have gotten a few emails of a political nature of late. This batch has been from some rather angry conservatives. Let me just state, that I am neither a republican or a democrat, i don't like alot of government as a rule, but i will freely tar and feather whoever is in a position of power. That is what satirists do. It just happens that the party in power is republican. How quickly we forget how much we made fun of that last president... So chill out, and stop with the hate email, it just damages your cause anyway and pushes me more towards the political apathy that is swallowing up my generation as a whole. Danka shein.
I will not be voting for any president until a man like John Mcain forms a third party that wants to put goverment power back in the states hands, so that individual areas of the country can make their own decisions that represent the populations in their precincts, and the federal goverment just shuts up and handles foriegn policy at arms length. I guess i'm a whigg party member, as I believe they might have been the last party to really support the concept of the US as it was initially created....cause South carolina and Washington state have two totally different cultural value systems why should one be forced to be the same as the other?
posted by escarius at
9:40 PM
1 Comments:
Best joke I've read so far on here is you talking about John McCain forming a third party to put power back in state's hands. His biggest piece of legislation was McCain/Feingold, a FEDERAL ban on free speech....Run a google search of "Keating Five" and then explain how McCain makes a good third party candidate.....
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