Hopping along

Sadness again. I'm getting ready to leave another FOB. For someone that really gets attached to people- ME- this sux! I'm always moving. It will be big tears when I leave this FOB. The people have been truely great and it's cute here!. I have a bathroom & shower in my connex-( the impossible happened, Usually I have a walk to find facilities). The church is great- the biggest reason I want to stay. The people are terrific, did I mention that? The Site Manager, (who is so kind
and amazing in his job) asked my boss specifically for me to stay. It could've worked with me FOB hopping from here. I don't get why they are not complying with the customers request...but, maybe it's because  every site I go on they want me to stay. Respect, cheerfulness, niceness, hard working, lots of laughter and a need to never complain goes a long way on these sites. I should give a class on how to be nice to people, how to work with the client and military- what a big head I have these days. It's really the GOD thing I have going on. He is my strength and guidance. I would be nothing
without HIM. You just got to be willing to go with the flow. Plus, I've decided I really like contract work.

I will be going back to my own base for a couple of weeks, then back to Tiny Base, which makes me very happy. I also love that base and the people there. I will have to meet almost a whole set of new people as almost all of my friends have gone home or been transferred to other bases. And I will have to prepare to work out constantly as they have the best chef in the region. Oh boy, am I up to the challenge?

Mostly I sleep in a room off the clinic anywhere that I go. I am so excited that I will have a chance to go to my home base. Back to continuing education classes. Back to my little buddy Jay who makes me laugh all day long with the escapades of his little ones. Great guy...you can tell by how much he loves his family. I would trust that kid with my life. Plus he is so easy to work with and the FOB loves him which is a huge deal. They can be a tough crowd. I should know...many of them are my buddy's.

Then there's always the rumors about me going to other bases. WTH? I was suppose to go traveling up north to a base with another one of my friends. We would have a blast and get it done at the same time. I'm waiting on word. I would almost have to do another contract to go to all the places I'm rumored to be transferred to. I do not understand the reasoning for all the shifting of people, but as the Fobbet for the region I just go hopping along.

I want to leave you with a picture of my buddy Yuvraj. Doesn't he make work look fun!