Going to Afganistan!!!

Ian J said:
I was with one of the first units to go over there in 2002, so things are probably WAY different now. Back then it was all tents and plywood latrines. Now I'm sure living conditions are pretty good.

If you are going to be admin over there, you'll probably work on a secured base 99% of the time, live in a trailer with a bed and AC, eat pretty good chow, have internet, a gym, a PX, and an MWR area.

Guys with more recent experience can probably chime in with up to date info.
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I'm not sure about interservice stuff, but AF quarters are prettymuch all but steel reinforced.

Guys brag about how much XBox 360 time they are logging. Of course, we're maintainers, and we get our jobs done, but after that, it's pretty easy.

Don't get your hopes up, that's just one side of the polyhedral.

That really sucks about recency and timing. A guy in my active squadron actually got his entire window pushed for the birth of a child. He still had to go, but they swapped positions with another guy.
 
Bagram is one of the nicest deployed bases I've ever been to. There is a significant infrastructure there, which means living is easy. There are no tents for living quarters that I can see, but anything from plywood "B-Huts" to what they call RLBs which are freight containers put together in a big cluster and remodeled inside as living quarters. Pretty nice stuff, at least on the AF side of things.

Bagram also has a nice big BX, American food like BK, Dairy Queen, Orange Julius, Pizza Hut, etc. The chow hall is contract operated by KBR and actually has fairly decent food...it just gets old seeing the same old menu once you're there for a long time. There is a Pakistani contractor at the BX complex who can wire internet into your room, although it's V E R Y S L O W and you can't Skype or anything because of the limited bandwidth.

I thought the rec facilities were also good, although the Army gym on Disney Drive is always PACKED.

Having deployed to a place with 12 guys in a small tent, sleeping on cots, and p*ssing in a tube stuck into the dirt, Bagram is definitely good livin'.
 
Sub,

Did you join the Naval Reserve when your AD commitment was up, are did you get discharged and receive orders as an inactive reservist?

Everyone has some reserve time at the end of their enlistment, I wonder if the Navy is making those folks go, or just the folks that are active drilling reservists?
 
I got out with no commitment. The reserve time after an enlistment is only on the first enlistment. I got out on my second. I then came back in 2 years later into the "active" reserves. If you get out of the Navy and finish your 8 years up in the Inactive reserves you are save from call-up at this time. No promises for the future though.
 
Found out where I am going. Asadabad!!! Anyone have any gouge? I have found some good stuff on the internet and youtube but hearing about it from the horses mouth is priceless.
 
Haven't been there on the ground, but have spent plenty of time in that neck of the woods overhead in an F-15E.

Very steep terrain right along the river valley there up against the PAK border.

Can't say much about the operations up there for OPSEC reasons, but there was plenty of "action" up there.
 
Couldn't you get an extension because of the baby coming? :( Baby is due the 14th, right? Can't you get a delay?

Please be safe over there.
 
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