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Published: July 28th 2009
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Leaving for Afghanistan
Boarding the first aircraft for 20+ hours of flying After 2 months of predeployment in Fort Bragg, everyone was anxious to get to our destination. We left Fort Bragg and stopped in Leipzig, Germany to refuel. From there we flew to Manas Air Force Base in Kyrgyzstan on what was my birthday, in southwest Asia just north of Afghanistan. So both our stops were in what use to be communist East Germany and the former Soviet Union. Go figure. The scenery there was gorgeous, but it wasn't long after we left that the Kyrgyz Parliament voted to close the base after the they and the U.S. failed to agree on a higher rent for the property. We arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan on December 10, and from there our unit started getting split apart. I ended up going to Camp Lightning by Gardez for 2 weeks, eventually ending up at Camp Clark. The weather in Afghanistan is entirely dependent on the very variable altitudes with which each town and base is located. It sleeted and snowed in Gardez, which sits at about 8000 ft, and within an hour of leaving and arriving in Camp Clark, we were sweating from the heat.
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Hello Will :) Me and my boyfriend are reading your blogs with fascination. Keep em comming! It is good to read about personal experiences, to flesh out what we read in the news. Mel