It’s 2200 (10 pm) and I just now got back to my room. This isn’t an exceptionally late night, I’ve worked until 10 pm several times since I’ve been here. The difference being that on those nights, I was working. Tonight, I had very little going on; I browsed facebook, I reluctantly ate some sugar…
Mophie
Mophie was my first. The first embed I coordinated from the initial request through the final escort out the gate. Mophie, a nickname derived from her AOL email address, was kind of a hot mess from the beginning. Often uttered throughout the process were the words, “fuckin mophie”. When a reporter reaches out to us, we…
WaPo
One of the reporters I escorted to the PEH was beginning a 10 day embed that we had planned/coordinated for him. PEH Afghan Air Force school was not the story he wanted to tell and he made that very obvious throughout the tour of the school. Aloof and uninterested, he didn’t participate in any of…
PEH
Pohantoon-e-Hawayee (PEH) is the officer candidate school for the Afghan Air Force. It is a one-year program and upon graduation the candidates are commissioned as officers and then go on to specialty schools such as pilot training or maintenance engineering school. The school is on the Afghan Air Force base, which is co-located with the…