Hey, I actually had a really good day.  We have gotten busier training Afghan National Security Forces soldiers, and that is always a good day with NCOs.  That is, working with troops.  Today’s training was definitely vanilla, but still good (just like the ice cream).  Throw a football into the mix and it was borderline great.  You can see in some of the pics that we got that out.  The troops thought it was great and it broke up the material nicely with something besides a strict military-type subject.  We even had them thinking about a game with the US ETTs sometime in the future (after Mac and I coach ‘em up).  Hey, it’s what we do.  Been going crazy getting after humanitarian assistance projects.   This stuff is no joke as far as the impact you can have.  The scope of what goes on here…holy cow.  I guess you will be able to get to know a little more about all that if you keep reading over the next couple of months!   We look to have some approval to assist on some wells, schools, mosques and a clinic…not sure yet.  As well as another project that I will surely discuss later, but I want to have everything right before I write about it.  This team is relative newcomers to the humanitarian assistance/civil affairs game, but we are making up for it by hitting it hard.  You can imagine how we felt today, after two of us had put some pretty good effort into this the last two weeks, to see that we just might have scored a couple of hits.  I can fill you in on those later, but they have to do with helping some people out that truly need it.   I will leave my ranting about some things off this page for the moment.   For all who know me, you know it will come soon enough.  Kinda like a tornado…just out of the blue, here it comes.  For now, just drivin’ on (no kidding!).