Afghanistan Deployment, Another Story!
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Afghanistan Deployment, Another Story!
Going to Bosnia I was not so scared, you know,
but going to Afghanistan was another story.
My first mission I deployed as a replacement
for someone that had passed away over there
so it was difficult, you know, to get into
the shoes of someone that passed on;
get to the troop that just had that terrible loss.
And so I did two months.
It went well though for me,
I did the end of the mission with them and
I was lucky enough during that Roto that things
went as good as it can get in Afghanistan.
My first Roto we were living in a
big open tent on little cots and
we were all one beside each other so
there is no privacy or anything like that.
It gets really hot in a tent in Afghanistan.
At 6:30 in the morning there’s no sleeping in
because it gets so hot that you got to get up.
And so stuff like that was a bit different.
Again, I was the only female within that
troop but you get used to it, you know,
and they get used to you too so there’s, you know,
I just act like them. I don’t go around
the corner to change,
I change and they look away and that’s it.
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