What This Blog Isn't

You may have noticed already that I haven’t written very many details of my job, or operations, or even current news events related to Afghanistan. I’ve seen several blogs where individuals share highlights of very work-related things that they’re doing and/or comments on reported events that have happened in Afghanistan. But I don’t plan to do much of either. For starters, because of my primary career field (for those that know), I’m very conscience of OPSEC (Operational Security) and even though this blog is not supposed to be connected to any search engines, I don’t want to put out any operational information that any ‘bad guys’ could use. So when I do talk about work, it will probably be in the most general terms possible. As for commenting on news, anything more than my opinion would probably venture into OPSEC concerns again, and there are plenty (maybe too many) opinions already out there. If you’re interested in lots of reporting and opinions on Afghanistan, there are plenty of websites and blogs that you can surf. However! I will share with you one website that I think is very good at factually reporting the bad AND good of events going on in Afghanistan. Check out the official homepage of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) at http://www.nato.int/isaf/index.html. They report and comment on all of the events that you’ll hear about in the news. They’ll also report on a lot of human-interest stories about the positive, non-military impact the international community is having on Afghanistan. Check out the multimedia section for maps of supporting countries and their general areas. It also has a link to ISAF’s Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/isafmedia/. There’s a lot of cool and interesting information on these pages. My blog will just have to be a human-interest story about little-ole me, trying to get through 6 months deployment away from my family.