Letter Six

Hello Everyone,

I know that it has been a long long time since I last wrote one of these emails. My Bad. It is mainly because I can't think of what to write. The interesting or exciting stuff in my life right now I cannot write about due to operational security and the rest is just pretty much monotonous and not interesting. Anyways, over the last few months we have been doing the same stuff over and over again. We drive to a few main high threat areas and drive around all day looking for bombs or bad guys so that it is safe for the rest of the coalition forces and Afghan people to move about. When we get bored we play with the local kids or go shoot off a bunch of rounds and find something that needs to be "blown up" and we take care of it. The action has picked up lately as the temperature has been rising. I suppose it will stay that way until winter hits and the mountain passes are all closed. Where I am at it gets between 100 and 130 degrees every day. That sucks but we are used to it by now. It should cool off here in the next few months and the rainy season should hit. While everyone else is getting snow we will just get a break from the heat and maybe a little rain. They have not had snow where we are at for the last 5 years which is kind of good because it won't be freezing but it is bad because that means we won't get a break from our usual mission set. We will be doing the same thing all year long while the rest of our guys down south will transition to snow and ice removal in the winter months.

Latest rumor around here is that they will be trying to move me to an executive officer position in the next couple of months. That takes me off of the road and puts me behind a desk handling the maintenance and supply issues of the company. It will be kind of nice to have the change and I will be a lot safer, but I hate to leave the guys. I wish I could take them all the way home. There is also a lot of talk about moves happening once we get back. So to make a long story short I will probably not be in Kansas very long once the deployment is over. I will either be in White Sands, NM, or Fort Leonardwood, MO. We will see, I have some decisions to make and anything can change in the next 10 months we are here. That's just how the Army is.
I love all of you. Thanks for the support. I can't wait to get home on leave to see most of you.

-Todd