With all honesty, I was a little nervous about flying into Afghanistan. I had little to no clue as to what it would be like coming in, and quiet frankly I felt dumb to even mention my suspicions to anyone. Anything I had ever seen about going into a war zone came from Saving Private Ryan where the Army is storming the beach at Normandy, so you can about imagine the slight panic that went through my mind. I did feel a little reassured that nobody else seemed to have the slightest fear in their eyes.... Needless to say I was overthinking the whole thing. We flew in and everything was fine and come to find we even had a TGI Fridays on the base we flew into.

So I've been here a couple days now, just going with the flow of minimal trainings and just enjoying the time we have to relax. I'm not sure exactly what to expect from the next 8 months and counting, but my prayer is that all our guys will make it back in one piece, and in a better state of mind than they left.

Today was a regular day, we had nothing until the early afternoon which was just a 2 hour class, and then a SGT in my section asked if I'd want to go to the USO with him. We did and when we got there I saw a bunch of computers open so I thought I'd take the opportunity to talk a little about what is going on here.....that was until the front desk lady came over and talked to me like I was four apparently angry that I completely missed the big sign in front that said computers and had a arrow pointing to a sign in board. (oops). Anyway, I apologized and she signed me up for the computer. I must have missed the sign when I came in because I was overwhelmed by all the cool stuff the USO had to offer. I literally feel like a child at a theme park right now.... that's all for now.