Rock Art
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 12 Comments »Dear Gang, The country of Afghanistan can be beautiful with rolling hills and lots of color. It can change just as fast to arid desert area until you hit the next valley with a river running through which brings life to ...
Cultural lesson in Food
Saturday, June 7th, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 15 Comments »The other day, I had the opportunity to visit a police station in Kandahar that we built for the local Afghan National Police. Here is some background; in the past five years, the US has built up the Afghan Army ...
History Lesson 101
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 9 Comments »This came from our XO, a fine young Air Force Officer who gave us a short brief on the Hazara. If you have read "Kite Runner" then you already have an idea of who the Hazara are and how they ...
MEMORIAL DAY 25 MAY 2008 FALLUJAH
Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 6 Comments »Major General Kelly's remarks on this day. MEMORIAL DAY 25 MAY 2008 FALLUJAH, IRAQ First, a few statistics to ponder. There are twenty-five million living American veterans. Since General George Washington commanded the Continental Army forty-two million Americans have served the colors. A ...
Hug a Vet
Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 7 Comments »Dear Gang, Here I am at “Camp Adams” on Memorial Day Weekend; let’s see “Cut the grass, Wash the Humvee, Clean the poop stains, change the sheets, and clean the gutters.” See, the "Honey Do This and That" never end, ever. ...
Everyone Poops, so have a nice Bidet
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 31 Comments »` Dear Gang, You know there are some basic human needs that have to be fulfilled no matter where you are. I guess as you travel the world, figuring out where you go to fertilize the local gardens is something that everyone ...
Happy Mothers day from OEF
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 10 Comments »Dear Gang, Greeting from, Afghanistan. First of all I want to say Happy Mother's Day to all you gals out there in Cyberland!! I can say that this is going to be a long tour. We travel around Kandahar City, which ...
Camp CupCake Afghanistan
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 20 Comments »Dear Gang, What is it like going into Afghanistan? Well, I remember landing under sniper fire, there was suppose to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get ...
Free Agent
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Military | 22 Comments »So, you want to volunteer to go to war huh? Crazy as that sounds, there are a lot of us out there who do this little trip over to the war and let me tell you something, that is why ...
The New SandGram…
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in Site News | 28 Comments »Dear Gang, If you are reading this, then you found out I have moved. This was a goal I had six months ago and spurred on by my Uncle Bruce who helped me get the domain name for the Sandgram. We ...
