43rd birthday in Kabul

It is a very small compound in the middle of Kabul. If you walk inside the perimeter, it is just under a klick (kilometer). There are 2 hardened barracks which most of us are berthed in. Originally, it was supposed to be 2 man rooms with 2 sets of bunk beds and 2 small lockers but there are already more people here than rooms. Most of the rooms are 3 personnel. One set of bunks are occupied by 2 men who each get a locker. The other person gets the bottom bunk and the top bunk for storage. All of us who got into the barracks are the third man, so it was top bunks for all of us. There are also GP tents set up for the overflow of personnel. These will eventually be taken down as the Army is now erecting RLB’s (relocatable buildings) which are similar to the conex barracks used in Iraq. I think they are 2 man rooms but I haven’t been in any of them. (When I was in Iraq, we still lived in the SWA huts).