An average day

The following is an average day here at Camp Phoenix. I tryed to include the typical things I do each day, including occasional work.

The Day comes early, beginning with a workout.
Our gym has some very good equipment and plenty of it. It is open 24/7. 3 days a week we lift and 3 days a week go for a run on the treadmill. It is much more pleasent in side because the air is filtered.

This is the basketball court on the other side of the gym. The signs were painted on some time ago. The one on the left shows the different countries involved at Camp Phoenix at that time.

Early morning looking south. These are the only mountains that still have snow on them.

Out behind Legoland. Some soldier built this in Phoenix 3. Note the barriers behind it. These are called Hesco's. They get there name from the company that makes them. These are dirt filled barriers that protect us from blast and form fighting positions as needed. We have bunkers that look like these too, but they have a roof about 6-8 feet thick as well. We have at least 3 layers of barriers throughout the base to protect us.

These, morning doves and beatles are about all the wild life we see. He's about 2 inches long.

My work crew on our latest battle field furniture project outside the front of the TMC. The front of the TMC is pretty small and we sometimes need a place for overflow.

The deck is finshed. Another one was built on the other side of the enterance as well.

My first try at building benches!

Specialist Angel Morrow, Petty officer Jay Day and me enjoying our new deck and bench. It was Jay's Idea to build the deck in the first place.

Different groups from the base. This is a platoon of Mongolian soldiers

The chow hall. We go here to graze 3 times a day. There are 4 places to get food at every meal. You can get as much or as little as you want. Huge omlets, and almost anything else you can think about. Ice Cream about 5 nights a week.

Last week they began showing outdoor movies twice a week on the side of the fire station. We watched Departed last Friday night.

Thanks for looking in to see whats going on here. I have been enjoying doing this blog. Please keep Chris and the kids in your prayers. Thanks again for all of you support.

mike

If there is anything you would like to know more about please let me know. Later this week I hope to put up pictures from my trip to Bagram.