Another Great Day in Afghanistan!

Today has been a great day.

You may ask why?, well that is easy.

It was a full moon last night and we didn't get attacked.

Also the University of Tennessee beat the University of South Carolina in college football. It was a nail biter from the 3rd quarter on. I have to be honest with you I had lost faith. I woke up and the score was 21-0 with Tennessee winning. So I got online and was chatting with my Mom and Carrie. Then the score was 21-7....a little while later 21-14 then all of a sudden it was 21-21 2 minutes left in the game and South Carolina has the ball in Tennessee territory. They had a chip shot for the go ahead field goal to go up 24-21. That is when I gave up on the Vols, wrote this game off as another disappointment. Told my Mom and Carrie good night and then I headed off to breakfast. While eating breakfast another Tn fan came in and said the game was tied up and going into overtime. So I finished and ran back to my room. Got online and my mom and Carrie told me that it was overtime with Tennessee up 27-24. South Carolina then missed their field goal attempt and we won. What makes it sweeter is the fact that there are two National Guard units here on Camp Lightning. One is from the Tennessee National Guard and another from the South Carolina National Guard. So this was rivalry week here too. It is sad that either team had to lose. The guys from South Carolina are our Security Forces here and I have come to know most of them and to a man ( and woman) they are all awesome. It is great to serve side by side with them here in Afghanistan. It is also great to serve with the guys and gals from Tennessee. All the orange makes me feel at home. Any who that is how my great day started.

Went to work for a little while and then to Chapel for services. After Chapel me and Gillespie (Tn National Guard) headed over to the Bazaar. Today they had Kabobs and Pat and I decided to partake. We laid down on the carpet vendors hand made carpets and his sons served us kabobs and Chai. Chai is Tea and I had made it a point to avoid while here in AFghanistan. I couldn't resist today because that was all they had and the spicy kabobs make you thirsty. Well I am glad I tried because the Chai was awesome. Then I got to try on some Afghan clothes. We call them Man-Pajammas or Man-Jammys for short.

Ronnie Tabor

taborrw@gmail.com

"It is an honor to serve"

Jeremiah Denton

Vietnam POW

SSgt Neil Paule is our wiring specialist. He has climbed every building on Camp Lightning in our rollout of the Internet here. He also has the 3 cutist little kids you will ever see.

This is the flag pole at Camp Lightning and you can see the HUGE inflatible Big Orange T proudly displayed announcing to all that Tennessee was victorious.

This baby was brought into the hospital today, I wonder how this would go over in America? I have heard of teachers going to jail for doing this to 1st graders.