Sunday, August 24, 2008
Think Green
Halfway through with our journey, we are laid over at Shannon Airport in Ireland. We have been travelling for over 18 hours now. We stopped in Kansas to pick up some medical Navy personel. Met a few Sailors that are pretty interesting (for Navy, that is). They will be mentoring the Afghan Native Medical Teams in current medicine. From what I understand that will be very challenging since the Afghans are stuck in medicine practices from the 1940s/50s. Gettting them modern equipment and training them is challenging enough, but keeping people from stealing and selling off that equipment will be difficult as well. Considering Afghanistan is 10 1/2 hours ahead of Ft Bragg, and 11 1/2 hours ahead of Chicago time, we are in for a treat when we get in country. I look forward to starting this (very challenging) adventure. Time to get on the plane. My best to all. My good friend Al would be happy to know that I did not let him down while I was in Ireland.
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Good luck.
I can imagine the black market there brings top dollar to these poor people for the medical equipment. Keeping the equipment safe might be harder than actually doing the training.
Make sure and tell everyone you are working with that they are remembered and prayed for, daily.
Come home safe!
I will. Thanks for your prayers.
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