Thursday. We started off the day discussing wastewater, motor pools and hospitals and ended it discussing high-tech aircraft. We had meetings from 8 am through 6 pm with no break for lunch, but it was good. One of the meetings and tours I was especially interested by was the tour of the combat suport hospital or CSH. It is absolutely incredible how much this hospital functioned like the show M.A.S.H. No joke. They have lots of dark green tents, but the operating rooms are not in tents. They are in these crazy metal container/ boxes that are transported on the back of a flat bed truck and then just put on the ground and expanded. They kind of expand like those campers some people haul behind their pick up trucks, then when they park and set them up at a campground, they fold out. It's kind of like an accordion in a way. In any case, we got to see examples of an operating room and mobile pharmacy. I am amazed at how flexibible the doctors must be to be able to function and perform in this kind of environment. The roofs are kind of low and it gets hot in there in the summer, but they still do everything but brain or heart surgery.
The people here have been really helpful and I think we've gotten a lot of good info. Our Out-brief is tomorrow so I'm sure I'll get a little nervous right before. It will be nice to have it over with.
Anyway, everything here is going well...lots of dust and mud, but otherwise no complaints. I did hear that a water main burst in our living area and we might not have water. That would stink and so would I, but I guess I have no choice but to deal with it. Someone told me one time that "flexible is too rigid, you have to be fluid." That's a good motto for travel over here. Take care all, e
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