Our base, Camp Stone, is growing and taking on more permanence. In light of this, local contractors are now building cinderblock huts instead of plywood for berthing. Everyday, 30+ Afghans are screened and come on base to do the building. They cannot just wander around so typically a dozen US military escort them on, around and off the base. Today was my second turn of doing this. I met a crew at the gate about 8:30, escorted them off for lunch, back again after lunch, then off again at the end of the workday. BORING. I did find the work methods "interesting". The pictures show 2 guys working on a corrugated tin roof, in bare feet (about 50 degrees), using 220 volt electric tools, with a rainstorm about to start. Eek. The other picture shows a homemade ladder which seems to bear up just fine.
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Bruce, Just back from Australia and may use your pictures in my safety classes. Love the barefoot boys with Teak of Chan.
Hello Bruce. It's the same here in Cambodia. There's a lot of constructions going all over the city on but there's minimal safety gears, if at all there is.
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