Combat Granny

Monday, November 11, 2013

Enjoying quite a visit with friends in West Tennessee. Good friends are wonderful!!

Posted by Combat Granny at 5:28 PM

Combat Granny: I used to teach military kids in Germany and Japan before I retired in 2008 to become a lady of leisure. I tried it...it didn't take. The hubster, who prompted our mutual retirement got tired of spending his days on the couch watching random sports and took a job with DynCorp as a contractor in Afghanistan. It took me longer. I thought...well, let him be the breadwinner and I will sit in my lovely house, watch home and garden TV, play with the kids, grandkids and parental units and shop at Ross every Tuesday. As I said...it didn't take. I went to work for Central Texas College in Baghdad, Iraq on Camp Victory. After I completed that 6 month commitment, Pete said he needed a roommate in Kandahar and indicated he would rather it was me. I had rather it was me too, so I went to work for DynCorp and headed to Kandahar myself. My job is as a mobile trainer of logistics software and I get to fly around to different forward operating bases on Russian helicopters (and the occassional Black Hawk) building credibility, making friends and influencing people. This life and this job would not be for everyone, but I find it oddly compelling.

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