Friday, November 30, 2007
3 months
Yesterday marked 92 days "BOG"-boots on ground. We arrived at Manas Air Force Base in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 29 August, officially entering the CZ, combat zone, and started the clock for one year here. Since we are coming up on a leap year, we could be here 366 days although most get out before the full year is up. Anywho, we are at least 25% of the way through. We do have a small observance of each 50 days here, so we will hold a cigar party on an observation point next Friday, 7 December to mark 100 days in country. It's Pearl Harbor Day as well, but that is not something the Navy celebrates.
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Actually Navy Air quietly observes Pearl Harbor Day as the day that sealed the Navy's commitment to aircraft carrier aviation for the next 70 years, at least. If the carriers had been in port (none were, much to Japan's chagrin) and sunk, carrier aviation may never have recovered and the big battleship proponents would have decided the shape of the Navy.
-- Roy
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