02/09/2025
A Black day, is always a good day. 😎🏴☠️
2006 , Blackwater / GRS - heading to the Kabul 🇦🇫 country club to play a little 5.56 golf😋😉 …. We had to SDR up to Qargha lake and scope the joint, so the co’s had a place to “develop” assets….. It couldn’t have been a more beautiful 70 degree spring day, the pollution was always light in the spring too so I could breath easy, while hacking up all the lung cheese I that had collected throughout the winter…and after spending the winter freezing and trying to run ops in the blackish snow that’s filled with mud, trash, sewage and all the unknown bodily fluids mixed together in a kinda Kabul stew, I loved when spring hit the streets…and the Taliban loved spring too as “work” picked up 😁. Those that worked Kabul more than a month, feel me, and understand how we could go get a great coffee, chicken kabob, and french pastry, while at the same time getting caught in an ambush. It’s what made Kabul a wonderfully exciting, dangerous, semi permissive place to work. I always was excited to get back to A-stan… solid operators like Griz and Chief who had that demented sense of humor similar to mine. It’s been almost 20 years since those days…and I can still smell the smells, feel the sun on my face, and my contentment with life 😊🇺🇸🤙🏼. Those days were good, even when they were bad. 🙏🏼🤙🏼😊…. …We can always find silver linings….if you look hard enough & patient . It’s the experiences that bring smiles to our faces as we transition from young fire breathers to old men…that’s the beauty of living a fulfilled life 🇺🇸😊🤙🏼
