We have lots of folks working on the FOB here, and one has to wonder about some of them. The Air Force is paving the road in front of our living area. The project was delayed for a while when the paving machinery that was being brought on the FOB was discovered to have explosives concealed in it.
We have, I think, Phillipino women serving our meals, and have guys working in the PX, on construction projects, cleaning the facilities, and generally all around. We are constantly admonished not to get friendly with these folks, and to watch what we are saying around them. Sometimes I look at the guys and wonder, are you going to be launching a rocket into our FOB tonight? Most are friendly and seem OK, but one never knows.
We get rockets lobbed into our FOB every so often. They are pretty inaccurate, but again, I wonder if some of the workers here aren't giving battle damage assessment to the bad guys. Nothing we can do about it, I suppose. We are going to get a certain number of bad guys slip through the screening process.
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