Day 30 - Ultimate Frisbee!

(Post for 14 June) We started the day off with yet another trip to Camp Eggers (YATTCE? I know, a sad YACC style acronym). We spend a lot of time driving back and forth between different installations. We have to travel with more than one vehicle and at least two people in each one for security reasons. This means that if only one of us has a meeting off site (and most everything is off site), we tie up at least three other people. Of course, most folks don't mind heading to a post/camp with a Base Exchange, and we try hard to schedule multiple meetings for different people at once. It still eats up a considerable amount of time and effort though.

This meeting was called by the CJ-6 (director of communications) and his staff. It seems they finally got the full requirements for all the IT at the new Air Defense University site. With all the turn over of personnel here, they had no recollection that everything was provided to them last summer, so we started over pretty much. You've heard the old expression one step forward and two steps backward. Well, this was our three steps backward. Things seem to go like this over here sometimes. Ever since President Obama and Secretary Clinton began announcing a pull out of American troops in the summer of 2011, everything has seemed to shift into high gear. I just hope we can accomplish enough by then to allow the ANA and ANP to provide the required security for the people of Afghanistan. We're working hard at it, but so much is uncertain and unfinished.

Now to the good part. We got back from Camp Eggers just in time to teach the NMAA cadets how to play Ultimate Frisbee. This was one of the most fun things I've done during my deployment. We plan to play again in the next few days. After a quick introduction to the rules, we were off. They picked it up really fast, although there was a real tendency to run with the disk. Here's a few select action shots of the game.