A Room with a View

B-Hut is actually short for "Billeting Hut". But I think of it as the "Bee Hut" because the interior is divided into 10 little pod-cell rooms and all of us busy, Bagram Air Field worker bees return to the hut each night, after a long day of work, buzz a little to each other (not "buzzed" mind you) then crash for a few hours before stumbling back into daylight for round ... i've been here so long I can't remember what round i'm on. I know, though, that I have only 60 rounds remaining before I board my plane heading home for a visit.

In the picture above, you can see rows and rows of our little bee huts. If you're up for a game of "where's waldo" let me assure you that the porta-potties, made infamous in a previous blog, are included in here somewhere, too.

Anyway, as you can see, even though I work in a combat zone and live in a bee hut, my office has one helluva view. Did i mention it's on the corner? Yeah, that's right - I gotta corner office. Okay, okay -it doesn't have a window, but whatever. The bottom line is that about a hundred times a week somebody asks me "why do you stay?" and even though I ask myself the same question about a hundred times a day (more during bunker drill days), all I have to do is look around to remember that I stay because I like the way the world looks from where I'm standing.