No More Bagram - Only MeS

Well, this Bad Boy of Bagram has moved to Masar-e-Sharif (MeS) for the duration of his time in AFG. It is very nice in MeS. The Germans have the land lease and the US is a tenant. That means, the German side is very nice, neat, clean, and laid-back: the US side is just the opposite. Why is it that when Americans deploy, we live like we are in the field, i.e., tent, porto-potties, mud, gravel, tent DFAC, combat showers (no more than 3 minutes), PX that is a 40ft container (single file in one end and out the other), sea containers stacked everywhere, 8ft high fences wrapped in sniper material with C-wire and barbed wire around every building, no alcohol, no sex, no porn, and more rules and policies and regulations than you can shake a stick at. MeS is an eclectic collection of countries: Germans, Norwegians, Swedes, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Croatians, Armenians, Georgians, Latvians, New Zealanders, Australians, Canadians, Italians, Britons, Czechs, Polish, Danes, Greeks, Iceland, Lithuanians, Macedonians, Monrovians, Belgians, French, Spanish, Mongolians, Estonians, Finns, Dutch, Turks, Afghanis, Slovakians, Slovenians, Singapore, Albanians, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Columbians (yep, all the way from South America), and those are just the ones in uniform that I have seen. We also have civilians from many other countries: Romania, Philippines, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ireland, Mexico, Argentina, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Burma, Austria, Azerbaijan, Romania, Serbia… and others. We really do have anediverse group of people in MeS, but, somehow, it works.