Logic in Bagram

I am going into my 4th year in Afghanistan (37 months to be precise) and one of the things I have learned (the hard way) is to turn off my logic circuits. Logic will only get you into trouble. Stop trying to think like you are still in the United States, Great Briton, Canada, or any European country.

When you land at Bagram Air Field, throw logic out the window. What you believe, what you have been taught, and what you know is a logical way of doing things, is not necessarily the way things will work here. Please... save yourself some trouble, heartache, and disappointment - STOP THINKING LOGICALLY.

I witnessed another example of missing-logic and the consequences of trying to force logic on someone who does not have a clue.

Little-miss-chippy - who has never been to Bagram, never met anyone at Bagram, never talked to anyone at Bagram - wrote a policy for a process involving people and material movement. When the local manager tried to stand up to little- miss-chippy (the bosses girlfriend) - the manager found another occupation that very same day.

Logic would dictate (and so would common sense) that someone familiar with the system should have input (if not outright carte blanche) for what is contained in the process... but NOOOO! We can't start a trend with logic.

My god... the earth's polar caps would melt, the moon would turn to blood, and the seas would boil if we start using logic.

This is just the most recent (that I know of) event in a long string of daily-illogical moments.

So, to you my friend - FMF - LONG MAY YOUR LUM REEK!!!!