Back from the Sandbox! Woohoo!
 

I made it back safe from Afghanistan after 7 months. It was a blast. sometimes pretty scary, but as much as it might have sucked at times I can honestly say a part of me misses it. I got to do and experience a lot of things that will stay with me forever. I want to thank the SVX network for all the wonderful carepackages. I couldn't get enough of that electronic sudoku lol.

Blown up building

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Trick photography

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my truck the "Dirt Diva"

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Afghan National Army

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One of several IED hits no casualties

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Simply bad ass

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Me and some super old chick. Offering tea to a guest is a sign of friendship.

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Exploring a blown up house

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RT 515 flooded

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Hope you all enjoy this is just a lil preview of my deployment :)

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Welcome back babe!

Really glad you made it through without any bad incident. Thank you for the nice photos also. It is refreshing to see you making friends with the locals, and your appreciation of their culture. Obama's hand of friendship is the way to go as I see it.

As you say, Woohoo!! :woo:

Joe :)

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Welcome back, glad to hear you made it back safe, and had some interesting experiences in the process.

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Glad you made it back in one piece ! Thanks for serving over there and hope that sudoku made it a little easier :D

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Thanks for your service and welcome back.
Gene

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Another echo,

Thank you very much for your service. it is VERY appreciated. Welcome back.

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welcome back what do you do in the marine corps??

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3531 Motor T Operator aka bad ass truck driver ;)

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It is great to have you back safe and sound. Thanks for your service and all that you did for us and the others in your deployment. Drive your SVX and enjoy it! :D

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Thank you for your service to our great country! It's good to hear you are back safe and sound. Thanks for the pics, too. A few of them deserve to be published.

Johnny

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Welcome back! I envy you!
I am still in the sandbox, 2.5years and counting... :(

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Unfortunately you've got Afghanistan confused with Iraq. We still have a lot of work to do in that country, but there are so many mountains and caves and bunkers. The Taliban men are not brave at all. They only attack when they are well hidden. They also like fire for effect such as firing mortars over mountains just hoping one hits us, but we can't exactly fire back at a mountain when no one is there. Its sad too because most of the people are good and honest, but the 'bad guys' have so much control over them due to the poppy trade being their number 1 export. Gosh I could go on about that country for days. This war is not going to end any time soon and if it does it will be incomplete and fall straight back into a state of disarray. But thank you all for your support. Its tough fighting a war not everyone agrees with or understands. Even harder to explain ourselves when we have to maintain opsec. But again thank you all. You're all wonderful people (but then again it takes a wonderful person to drive a wonderful car like an SVX ;)

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