Sheep...Baaaaa

Sheep and goats are everywhere in Afghanistan and are an important source of food and income for many Afghans. Livestock is also a sign of wealth and power.

Toby Keith

Toby Keith performed at FOB Gardez, his performace was great. Mr Keith is a great supporter of the U.S. Military and the USO. The USO supports U.S. service members around the world, bringing entertainers and and other support to areas that can be difficult to places to live and work. The USO relys completley on donations to support our troops. If you would like to donate or volunteer with the USO, please visit www.uso.org.

Care Packages

I want to thank everyone for the care packages I have been bombarded with, 5 in the last week.

Mom, thanks for the Aprils Fools Package, a month late.
Brit, thanks for the UW hat, it is AWESOME!
Colfack Family, I love the Sponge Bob fruit snacks
Butte State Bank, When did you get fruity flavored "bank gum"? I am not sure I can handle change like that!
Helen Mohr, thanks for the great letter, and I will be attending the Alumni banquet, so save me a ticket.

Thanks again everybody

New Underwear!

I am sure you have all heard and laughed at my underwear story. Long story short, I sent my laundry in and put all of my underwear in one bag, the laundry service lost my bag and all of my underwear. But, I received new underwear in the mail! June Sherrett was kind enough to sew Tigger and Winnie the Poo patches on the rear of several pairs of underwear and sent them too me. No one will be stealing these!

June, thanks for shorts and the laughs!

Long Mission

I went on an extened mission in in my province and we roughed it. I had one shower in 13 days and slept in the truck.
This is the crew, SSG Pete Tyo, CPL Mike Maher, and SPC Eric Sargent. All great guys and they are good at what they do.


This is me when I returned to base, I smelled really bad.

Picture Update

Sorry for not updating, but internet has been slow and I have been busy.
You would be surprised how much time it take to fight terrorists with agriculture.