Spin Boldak no way I was there for about 4 months in 2010 I think, also spent some time at FOB Tarin Kowt, the Aussies are great, I think the very best of the Camps was the German base at Camp Marmal up near Mazar, they had a pool, yes a friggen pool and a bar beach club with real cold beer and the hottest German soldier girls I have ever seen, it was like a frat boy party house up there, then came FOB (Camp) Northern Lights for the Nord troops, super hot Swedish soldiers lololol. I almost got sent to Chapman/Solerno for talking crap to my super a-hole boss, but cooler heads prevailed , man Khost was just the worse area to have been at, the a-hole in the center of a huge a-hole country, lololol, hey the poo pond gawd I still cant describe the smell to people, it was almost unbearable at times, I think I had conjunctivitis at least 8 times over 2 years with all that crap flying around. What DFAC did you eat in when you were in KAF, I managed Harvest Falcon 1 in SouthPark, and Niagara for a while. Yeah I heard that the Canadians cleaned up the poo pond at some point lolol, as if anything could clean that mess up, gawd the amount of money/energy spent on the @#$thole huh, what a waste.I actually miss it, too! I lived for a short bit in the CH2M/DynCorp compound, southwest of the Poo Pond. My CHU was only about 300 yards from that hideousness, so when the evening wind would shift from westerly to easterly, we got the stench-blast something fierce, and fresh from the Pond. Every day...
But after 2 weeks in KAF, I shipped out to FOB Walton on the opposite side of that big mountain ridge to the north of the flightline, about 9 or 10 miles from KAF as the crow flies. I was there for 6 months - like a frik'n Club Med by comparison to KAF! Then I went to FOB Spin Boldak out in the far southeast at the Pakistan border for a bit, and then FOB Pasab/Wilson for another 6 months - that one really sucked. Lots and lots of rocket attacks and insider attacks. We even had a couple of truck bombs blow a hole through the Hescoes at the drone airfield and a buncha ragheads got in and killed a few guys before they all got snuffed. That one was bad...
Then I went to FOB Aziz Ula and FOB Sarkari Karez/Ramrod for a while. COP Terra Nova, way out in Indian Country, was a blast. Really exciting there - only a 1/4 mile from Jelawar, billed as the "birthplace" of the Taliban. I almost got hit there. I really enjoyed those places far away from KAF, the higher-ups, and that stench of the Poo Pond! But for my final final 6 months I was back at KAF and back in that same smelly compound. But by then the WWTP down in Deep South had finally come on line and the Poo Pond was practically dry. So, the smell was markedly reduced for my last few months in country!
Sorry, I lost the thread that holds this post. Found it cuz it bumped back up in my Watched Threads...
Also went to the Brit DFAC on the far side of The Boardwalk (Geez, that was a long walk from the CSO!) from time to time cuz they had some good ice cream pretty often, which the American DFAC never seemed to have in decent supply, consistency, or taste.
Tell your friend's wife, good job. That is an endangered one piece long-tailed brown snake. Well not anymore.The wife of a friend in Australia cut this Brown Snake in 3 pieces with a shovel.
I had to cut and paste three pictures together to get it all in. Found it on the walkway in front of the door.
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I have to "guess" the reason they don't just shoot the damn things is they want to try to get the hide intact to sell? Sounds like this guy damn near got himself killed trying to take that one by himself.
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