Bouhammer | January 31, 2007
Well the last few days have been almost nothing but meetings and very few missions. We have had some lively discussions with our ANA since they felt themselves getting backed into a corner about taking leave and pass. The amount of corruption in this army and country as a whole is no secret. We have [...]
Bouhammer | January 30, 2007
The Doonesbury guys at the Sandbox are doing it again. The Sandbox is a website that the publishers of the Doonesbury cartoon strip setup a while back for deployed soldiers who want a central place to share blogs. People that are deployed can send the webmasters their blog entries and then the editors of that [...]
Bouhammer | January 29, 2007
Well things here have been lively for lots of reasons. People are high-strung, nerves are getting short and people are starting to get irritable with each other. A rotation of ETTs are about to leave and they are getting excited about that. A group of us (to include me) are getting more and more happy [...]
Bouhammer | January 29, 2007
My posting the other day about the 63 things ( List of Gear for A-stan) that anyone deploying here should bring has generated a tremendous amount of traffic on my website. Before Sunday I averaged about 180 visitors a day. I think the most I had ever received in one day was close to 225. [...]
Bouhammer | January 28, 2007
I picked up this information from one of my favorite blogs, Blackfive. I was not sure it was completely accurate, so I let it sit for a few days before borrowing this from them. As with the poem I posted recently, the story about SGT Hess and the mat company, and other items of good [...]
Bouhammer | January 27, 2007
I am very, very flattered and honored to announce that I have been asked to be a panelist speaker at this year’s MilBlog conference. Of course this is pending I am back in the US and off this deployment in time. I was asked a while back if I would be willing to participate on [...]
Bouhammer | January 27, 2007
Last week I conducted several training classes on mission preparation and pre-mission checks with all of the ANA leadership in the unit we mentor. I talked about this some in earlier blog entries, as one of the classes was interrupted by the suicide bomber. Anyway, being an ETT means training the ANA, mentoring them and [...]
A blog originally created by a 22-year retired First Sergeant of the Army. This blog started out as a way to write about military related issues. It turned into a way for Bouhammer to document his 16 month tour as an ETT leader in Afghanistan for family and friends. It is now one of the leading and award-winning blogs written exclusively on operations in Afghanistan and other military related topics. In addition to Bouhammer, another writer is The Dude who is a National Guard Officer currently serving as a civilian contractor in the country of Kuwait. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy what you see. If you care about what is happening in the land where the attacks of 9/11 were planned and if you care about our military, this is the blog for you. Tell your family, tell your friends, and even tell people you don't like.
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