Ken (my dad) is deployed to Bulgaria. Here is his last email update sent to my mother: Hi Honey, I got NIPR capability here yesterday. But could not get back to office to write. We do not have the cyber café set up yet. The MWR guy arrived today to start running wires. You will never guess.....they have wild pigs here. I have a picture of one sneaking up on me which is not 20 feet away. This whole area has dozens of them. As soon as we got here I saw the momma pig with eight little oinkers eating plumbs which had fallen from the tree next to our office and sleeping area. They call our building the White House. Reason, its four stories and is painted white. We have offices on the fourth floor, a few on the third floor and woman's sleeping quarters. On the second floor is men's sleeping quarters and showers. The water has Ecoli so brushing teeth in the stuff could kill you. When the tents are ready, I am suppose to move to a tent. My office will move to a truck van, converted to a office. No electric there yet, air conditioners coming soon, computer net work coming soon. Oh, and they have Gypsies. They travel the roads in single horse drawn or donkey drawn wagons. The wagons are only about four foot wide and 10 foot long. Rubber car type tires. Gypsy clothing. On Sundays some of the horses have red headdresses. I have also seen entire families of gypsies walking, caring babies in arms and heading for an intermediate destination 10 kilometers away. Not sure how far the family was going to walk, but the stretch of road from outside our base entrance to where I later saw the same group was 10 km away. The army gets up here at NLT 5:30. So I get up with them. They have PT, I hop on my mountain bike and ride for an hour. At least one soldier who is excused from running will start biking with me. At this time we do not have a DFAC. Still under construction. Our HQ advance element meets at 0800 and caravan to a big truck stop area to purchase fresh coffee and gas station type food. Currently we also buy enough for lunch to go. Then at evening meal we go back to same area and eat at the seven or eight Mom & Pop operations which have good salads and barBQ. This is a welcomed change up from having to eat MREs. Take care. Love to all. KENNETH YOESTING Director of Logistics TF-E FWD |
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