Shocked by ZULU
Just a note, I’ve just switched all times to ZULU (Greenwich Mean Time) since that’s what I’m operating on currently. Helps everybody here (various Coalition forces and the four U.S. service branches) stay on the same page. The local time here in Kandahar, if you’re interested, is Z+4:30. Why +4:30? Who knows, every other time zone I’ve been in is a nice round number like Z+9:00 (Okinawa), or Z-4:00 (current U.S. EST), I guess the Afghani people wanted to be different or something.
Oh, and sorry about the bad pun in the title, I couldn’t help it.
June 15th, 2005 at 9:00 pm
Re the time zone, Afghanistan isn’t the only country in that neck of the world with an x:30 differential from Z. I think Iran, Pakistan, and maybe a few others do that, too.
Best of luck, and stay as safe as it’s possible for an EOD guy to do. I have a (DoD civilian) colleague who did 120 in Bagram last year. He loved it, but he’s young, single, and unattached, and didn’t tell his family any specifics until he was home again.
(one of Leta’s theater friends)