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Greetings from Afghanistan!! (now with pics)

75 durable postsStarted 2008-01-18Latest 2008-07-25
#50134Post 1 of 75

Well I have been deployed to this wonderful place for a while. To be honest though, on a good day like today, the mountains are covered in snow and its actually quite beautiful. It's definitely pretty cold out. I can't say too much about much,but i will stay in contact and try to post some photos now and then. Wish me luck!

#961806Post 2 of 75

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stay safe!

#961808Post 3 of 75

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Try and stay warm, more importantly stay safe and make it back.

#961812Post 4 of 75

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be safe!

#961815Post 5 of 75

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protect your balls and feet dude. as i told ya before, you will need all of them for the rest of your life.

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#961823Post 6 of 75

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stay safe bother. Keep in touch when it allows. ;)

#961835Post 7 of 75

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take care of yourself

#961874Post 8 of 75

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take care hambino! If you get the chance, try and introduce some of those afghanis to some good ole house music...teach them PLUR...and most of all, Stay Safe! :Bingo:

I hope your post doesn't put MS on the gov't radar ;)

#961897Post 9 of 75

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hahaha, ditto what ruby said! + a p.s. thank you for your service to your country!

#961903Post 10 of 75

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if you get into a shoot out with some taliban, i hope you win.

#961911Post 11 of 75

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kill a towel head and tell him its revenge for his uncle killing mine.

#961965Post 12 of 75

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Good to finally hear from you....stay warm and stay safe!!

#961975Post 13 of 75

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g/l be safe stay warm as said by the lovely posts from above

#961993Post 14 of 75

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stay safe

#961997Post 15 of 75

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Watch your back over there! Good luck and thank you for your service Hambone! :)

#962004Post 16 of 75

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Add my Stay Safe to the list!!

#962025Post 17 of 75

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I appreciate the support guys. It really means a lot. And no this won't put the site on the Gubment radar lol. I've basiclly been working my ass off as a cable guy on base. Our system wasn't installed very well to begin with and now my team is dealing with all kinds of issues. All these higher ranking peeps with nothing better to do are crawling up our arses because they aren't able to watch their foot ball and what not. Very busy to say the least. Its not so bad so far. The one cool thing is that they have these bazaars where you can get all inds of cool stuff at. Anywhere from extremely old guns and weapons to precious gems and stones form the afghanistan mountains. Kinda cool. till next time, Tschuss!

#962036Post 18 of 75

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Have fun and stay safe overthere. And if you feel like a cold Stella, just drive over to the airport: the Belgians are in charge of security there ;)

#962056Post 19 of 75

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Stay safe.

Just curious, is it super easy to buy heroin or opium over there if you wanted it? How much does it go for at the source?

#962061Post 20 of 75

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Stay safe and keep your head down !

#962122Post 21 of 75

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[quote=hambino21;561443]I appreciate the support guys. It really means a lot. And no this won't put the site on the Gubment radar lol. I've basiclly been working my ass off as a cable guy on base. Our system wasn't installed very well to begin with and now my team is dealing with all kinds of issues. All these higher ranking peeps with nothing better to do are crawling up our arses because they aren't able to watch their foot ball and what not. Very busy to say the least. Its not so bad so far. The one cool thing is that they have these bazaars where you can get all inds of cool stuff at. Anywhere from extremely old guns and weapons to precious gems and stones form the afghanistan mountains. Kinda cool. till next time, Tschuss![/quote]

Because you can't fight a war without your cable TV :lol:

#962184Post 22 of 75

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[quote=FM;561556]Because you can't fight a war without your cable TV :lol:[/quote]

Gotta watch CNN to know what the bad guys are up to :p

#962186Post 23 of 75

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be safe, your very brave, and it says alot for you to be over there, take care

#962407Post 24 of 75

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Look after yourself bro, War is crap, come home safe!

#962421Post 25 of 75

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I wish you and your fellow soldiers all the best over there and hope that you get to come back and relax again State-side soon.

#962530Post 26 of 75

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[quote=threehills;561479]Stay safe.

[B]Just curious, is it super easy to buy heroin or opium over there if you wanted it? How much does it go for at the source?[/B][/quote]

yeah thats [I]exactly [/I]what he wants to discuss on a gov't net connnection

be safe bruv!!! much respect for what you are doing 8)

#962711Post 27 of 75

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The whole russian invasion, CIA trained osamma in afganistan thing was really reminiscent of vietnam.

#963047Post 28 of 75

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You'll be safe with the Belgiums, French and Germans. They don't fight, they just hang around providing moral support!

#963281Post 29 of 75

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As the old MXC adage goes: Don't get eliminated!

#963428Post 30 of 75

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[COLOR=black][COLOR=white]take care and find Osamma and lets split the reward!!! [/COLOR]:p:)[/COLOR]

#985621Post 31 of 75

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Just an update on how its going in Afghanistan. Very busy to say the least. The weather is definitely starting to warm up. It went from freezing my balls off to skin cancer from the sun over night. So far I've travelled to Kabul and Kandahar. One of which was by convoy because (I'm sad to say) that my Air Force is pretty undependable for personal travel. If you need something blown to pieces, no prob. If you need a flight, go elsewhere. Here's to the Canadians. They hooked us up with a flight in our time of need. Cheers. I've learned a lot about what we are here for, and although I was reserved at first about our intentions, I have developed a lot better feeling seeing some of the things we are doing here. Things aren't perfect of course, but I believe that the majority of people that are here ,are doing it for the right reasons. I'm not writing this to start some political fiasco, just simply stating. This has definitely been a global effort , and hats off to the countries that are involved. I hope the effort doesn't go down in vain. On that note , i have seen the caskets of the fallen soldiers from our country and others ,and it definitely makes you look at life in a different light.. Especially when you see brothers in arms from different countries that have given the ultimate sacrifice for the same cause. For the attempted improvement of the quality of life in a totally different country. My heart goes out to their loved ones. They will never be forgotten.

On a lighter note, I'm doing fine and I would really like a freaking beer for God's sakes. Geez. I will try to upload some photos when I can find some bandwidth capable of doing so. Once again Thanks for the support guys and i will stay in touch when i can. Tschuss.

#985622Post 32 of 75

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Glad to here you are doing fine. Thanks for the update and stay safe

#985695Post 33 of 75

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I will think about you tonight when I raise a large JD sir.

Again, thanks for the update and stay safe.

#985791Post 34 of 75

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hambino-

new to the board and saw your thread. i want to say thank you for your service to our country and for helping to make afghanistan a safer place. the work you do over there is important and greatly appreciated back here. anyway, be safe and we will see you back here real soon.

#985852Post 35 of 75

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thanks for posting Hambino. really interesting to hear about this mission from someone there, not filtered by the medias. Im Canadian and i got a kick out of hearing that our troops helped you guys out. :D

Keep alert and stay safe!

#985885Post 36 of 75

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Good to hear from you again...nice to know you are doing ok :) If I could get a beer to you somehow I would....instead I will drink it for you...mmmm beer ;)

#985890Post 37 of 75

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stay safe my friend :)

#985921Post 38 of 75

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thanks so much for the update hambino, much respect to you for the job you are doing. see you stateside soon hopefully mate!

we will have a virtual beer together :)

#985923Post 39 of 75

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get in, get out, and come home, mayng.

#986113Post 40 of 75

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Thanks peeps. Its good to know you guys are out there giving a shit. We need all of the moral support we can get. Yeah they really need to work on legalizing alcohol out here. The one good thing is i'm losing weight like a cancer patient by working my ass off and not having all of the German/Belgian beer i can drink at my disposal:) I can't wait to get back though, i miss my dream world i used to live in. The music has definitely been my saving grace! Once again thanks for the support and i will be back in contact soon. Later guys/gals

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