Life is pleasant here, its a small FOB and there is not much going on. However, thats not true in the medical and dental world. We have a lot going on and I stay busy seeing the US and ANA soldiers. The Afghans have no concept of oral hygiene and they premake their mind befor ethey come to my chair. they want to get their teeth fixed even when they have very little or no tooth structure remaining. I look at it and have no words what to tell them. Hence they frustrate me to my bones. I am the officer in charge of this clinic at FOB Pasab. I am trying to make the clinic up to date by putting cabinets and organizing stuff around.
Everyone complimented that I have managed to change the look of the clinic. I ordered a television and DVD player from walmart so we can play and watch movies while working on the patients. People generally leave me alone and I get busy in treating patients all day long.
A few days ago the highlight of the day was the vetenarians caught a BOB CAT in a cage. It was a vicious looking bugger and kept on banging his head with the cage so it can escape. A few of our guys put the cat in the MRAP and took it out of the FOB and dropped it off. The vetenarian told me there are jackels, wolves and other wild animals running around the FOB at night. It was painful to hear that we live in the midst of these wild animals. They I imagined myself in the laterines and getting attaked by one of these vicious looking creatures.
One of the other observations for me was the caliber of our enlisted soldiers. I kind of compared this generation with my generation. I consider them as video game playing and very lazy. They have no fear until they hear stuff from the commander or the NCO's. The morale changes if the commander and NCO's are doing their jobs and everyone is all squared away.
I have spent 15 days here in this FOB and I have 74 more days to go back to KAF.
Everyone complimented that I have managed to change the look of the clinic. I ordered a television and DVD player from walmart so we can play and watch movies while working on the patients. People generally leave me alone and I get busy in treating patients all day long.
A few days ago the highlight of the day was the vetenarians caught a BOB CAT in a cage. It was a vicious looking bugger and kept on banging his head with the cage so it can escape. A few of our guys put the cat in the MRAP and took it out of the FOB and dropped it off. The vetenarian told me there are jackels, wolves and other wild animals running around the FOB at night. It was painful to hear that we live in the midst of these wild animals. They I imagined myself in the laterines and getting attaked by one of these vicious looking creatures.
One of the other observations for me was the caliber of our enlisted soldiers. I kind of compared this generation with my generation. I consider them as video game playing and very lazy. They have no fear until they hear stuff from the commander or the NCO's. The morale changes if the commander and NCO's are doing their jobs and everyone is all squared away.
I have spent 15 days here in this FOB and I have 74 more days to go back to KAF.
No comments:
Post a Comment