Author Archives: Adam

Here are some more pictures from my outing to the shooting range:   These next three pictures are a pan from left to right, over the top of the ANP camp and looking at “downtown” Kabul. Those apartments are visible … Continue reading →

This is my breakfast every morning. Since everything over here is a Three Letter Acronym (TLA) I refer to this meal as the BOC – the Breakfast of Champions. Fat, fat champions.

There are people in this camp from all kinds of places on the earth. There’s a lot from the US that are the police mentors, a bunch from Nepal that make up the majority of the security forces that guard … Continue reading →

Though the US won’t celebrate the ressurection of Christ for another six hours at least, in Kabul, He has been risen for a few hours already. My boss asked me if it was Easter this morning when we sat down … Continue reading →

Here are some shots that I got when I was out of the camp on the way to the shooting range. This is the right turn off the road that the base is located on. We went right, but this … Continue reading →

How do you really get a feel for what it’s going to be like to work in totally foreign environment? I had no idea how to deal with most of the questions that were bouncing around in my brain about … Continue reading →

I think a lot of my friends got this story from me as I was leaving: “I’m supervising AP staff in a finance office in-country for DynCorp. As the country is being reconstructed, companies like DynCorp have been contracted to … Continue reading →

One of the two controllable factors in an encounter with a terrorist who is targetting you for attack, is what they call “Time and Place Predictability.” If somebody observes you making the same route each day, they can easily plan … Continue reading →

Today was a day on the range – allowing a bunch of non-security people like myself to shoot guns so that we know what it is like. We shoot the M9 pistol by Berretta and the M4 Bushmaster rifle, both … Continue reading →

This latest Rob Bell book that I finished had a lot of things to say, but as I was reading it on a plane on my way to Dubai, one thing stood out in the middle of one of the … Continue reading →