Day 10

13 Oct. Well the day started out really good and really early. I got an early morning (3:15 AM) “wake up” call from Beanie. She is in Kuwait and it sounds like it’s a really cluster. For some reason she has to fly Standby from Kuwait to Bagram. This makes no sense. She is on orders. To make matters worse, she is living in a tent city on the outskirts of Kuwait City. No pillows, no blankets, just a mattress on the top bunk. To add to the cluster, because she is flying standby, she has to be at the terminal at 6:30 every morning and 8:30 every evening as well as 2 hours prior to any flight schedule for Bagram. Not the best set for someone that hasn’t had more than 3 hours of uninterrupted sleep and many days. The whole thing just pisses me off. It’s like nobody seems to know where and when flights are leaving. It appears this in specific to Afghanistan as her travel mates going to Iraq where in and out pretty quick. I think the fact that she is going thru all this crap without me makes me miss her even more. Talk about a feeling of helplessness. I am enroute to Houston for a few days. Hopefully Beanie can get access to a Calling Card so she can reach me on my cell or maybe even email access. Late breaking news. Got a quick call from the Bean and it looks like she caught a C-17 (cold and noisy) out of Kuwait to Bagram. Interesting note, it’s a six hour flight because the US has to fly all the way around Iran versus the short, direct route. It looks like she caught the flight just a couple hours after we chatted and she arrived safely at Bagram. Her Commander met her at the flightline, which was a nice touch. They put her in the Kellog Brown & Root (KBR) room, which by Bagram standards is much nicer than the B-huts (more on B-huts to come later). Will catch up more next time we get to chat.