Wintery weather

Alright, I´m stuck at another base waiting on someone, so I figured I should make use of the time. We´ve started to get a little ´wintery mix´of things, with some rain/snow mix, with more to come tonight. Maybe winter has finally arrived here. Not sure how long it´s supposed to last, but it sure does make a muddy mess out of everything.



Alright, I´m going to try to tackle another subject while I´m here. Though it´s one of those I´m not sure I can properly explain and if anyone else really cares. Anyway, as you´ve seen in the news lately, there´s a lot more U.S. troops headed this way as part of a ´surge´. What does that mean to me? Plenty, as far as work wise, as it´s all a matter of logistics; though I don´t really want to get in to that here. What else it means is that ´Team America´ is arriving in droves at our quiet NATO base.



And, honestly, Team America rolling in is a bit annoying. You come to appreciate the differences, both good and bad, in the way that Team NATO approaches and works certain things. This of course is relating to the staff here, as I have no experience with actual tactical operations (though you hear plenty about the differences there as well). So we now have cramped offices, more tents going up everyone, longer dinner lines, more annoying Army acronyms and a general decline in appreciation for the way other countries operate. After all, many of these countries have had strong and effective militaries well before we were even a country. Anyway, I guess enough on that.


This post was started a few days ago when I was at another base. Then I tried to continue it here only to learn our Internet was down. Like anything else, I thought it might be a few weeks, but surprisingly, it was fixed again within a few days and, hence, I am able to finish it now.

That's about it for now. Today was our 'Freeky Friday' morning, so I slept in until about 9am. Tried to get caught up on some emails and thank you notes; still plenty to do next week.

Oh ya, and that 'wintery weather' hasn't turned out to be much just yet. A little colder, but just a sloppy, muddy mess around here. Hopefully it will freeze up (hardens the ground) and we can get a little actual snow. We'll see.