Lunch with the Commandant

First, welcome to December! I can't believe that officially one of my six months is already in the books. It's all downhill from here :)

Anyway, the day after Thanksgiving, I had a chance to meet General Conway, the Commandant of the Marine Corps. He's our top four-star General. I think he was down south on Thanksgiving day, serving meals to some of the Marines there. When we saw him on Friday, he was on his way out of Afghanistan, bound for Iraq that night before heading back to the States. We had a chance to eat lunch with him and his entourage (which was another one-star General, like 6 Colonels, a couple aides and a reporter or two) and then take some pictures afterwards. He was really nice and I received one of his 'challenge coins', which is quite the hunk of metal.

Alright, I do have a pretty funny random picture as well (let me know what you think Tana). Here's a picture of the ATM that's on the south side of the airport (and the only way I can withdraw money). It's basically in an abandoned terminal area with a pile of receipts scattered about. As a bonus, since "Afghanistan International Bank is promoting their new ATM service, they're waiving the service fee until 2010"!