Well, it's been about 6 months since I've put the boots and backpack on, but now I'm preparing for a trip of my own into the wilds of Afghanistan. This time I will be going as a civilian non-DOD contractor which will be interesting. My previous exploits in both Afghanistan and Iraq were as DOD-contractor.
Fortunately this visit will be relatively short, about 40 days or so with travel in / around the Kabul area. It will be interesting to experience different parts of Kabul that I haven't travelled before. As I prepare to travel I do the same things I've done in the past which is getting my shots updated, getting my power of attorney and will squared away and securing all of my travel arrangements from point to point. We'll be flying straight civilian in on Safi which puts us on the civilian side of Kabul International. Fortunately we have a good / efficient security team in country to help gather us up and get us to where we need to go.
Advice I could offer to those that are also getting ready to travel, is to review my blog here and some of the other sites available that have credible information on them from those experienced in warzone contracting. There are a few sites to avoid as they simply are full of opinion and garbage from folks that have spent very limited time doing contracting outside of Logcap and have agenda's to harm some of the larger contractors (KBR, Fluor, etc). You'll know them when you see them by the slant of their postings and rantings of their commentators.
Fortunately this visit will be relatively short, about 40 days or so with travel in / around the Kabul area. It will be interesting to experience different parts of Kabul that I haven't travelled before. As I prepare to travel I do the same things I've done in the past which is getting my shots updated, getting my power of attorney and will squared away and securing all of my travel arrangements from point to point. We'll be flying straight civilian in on Safi which puts us on the civilian side of Kabul International. Fortunately we have a good / efficient security team in country to help gather us up and get us to where we need to go.
Advice I could offer to those that are also getting ready to travel, is to review my blog here and some of the other sites available that have credible information on them from those experienced in warzone contracting. There are a few sites to avoid as they simply are full of opinion and garbage from folks that have spent very limited time doing contracting outside of Logcap and have agenda's to harm some of the larger contractors (KBR, Fluor, etc). You'll know them when you see them by the slant of their postings and rantings of their commentators.
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