Above: SSG Paul Burnett, 2nd

PLT Platoon Sergeant.

Kandahar Airfield,

Afghanistan:

A cool afternoon on the 22nd day of December 2012, second platoon had a small Christmas get together. It was a time for the platoon to get together and sort of slow down a little and have a little fun. Thanks to 1LT Graham’s family we had enough gifts to play dirty Santa. So we got all 19 indi-viduals together and put num-bers in a hat. We started the game by letting the lowest to the highest rank pick a num-ber. After all members of the platoon got their number it was game on. The first player to pick a gift was SPC Timo-thy Enzor, everyone who has played this game knows that being first is never good, but SPC Enzor opened his gift and found that he had an auto-graphed Alabama football by Roy Upchurch. Not a bad start but how long could he hold that gift before someone took it? The game went on the

next 5 or 6 soldiers took a gift instead of trading we got eve-rything from remote control cars and helicopters , fleece blankets and flashlights to turkey and duck calls. I began to wonder if anyone was going to trade and then it hap-pened— PFC Barton got his taken which was a nice blanket and flashlight. After that one swap things went crazy with the last few soldiers. We have 19 soldiers in our platoon so on number 18 1LT Graham had his turn he took his gift and opened it and it was a turkey call, to this point almost everyone was satisfied with what they had ended up with. Now only one more soldier left to pick or steal, that sol-dier was SPC Seevers, being the avid hunter and outdoors-man he asked 1LT Graham to see the turkey call. SPC Seevers looked the turkey call over and said “I’ll take it” so he took the turkey call and 1LT Graham had to get an-

A Little Christmas Fun

Commander’s Corner

I hope everyone had a won-

derful and blessed Christmas

and New Years celebration. As

we continue to count down

the days until we return home,

we begin planning and looking

forward to our replacements

hitting the ground and taking

over the mission from us. We

have rolled over 300 missions

as a company and your Sol-

diers continue to do some

amazing and outstanding

things that you can be proud

of. Our Battalion Commander

LTC Bass and Command Ser-

geant Major Black recently

visited us here at Kandahar

Airfield. They had the oppor-

tunity to go on a visit with us

to an Afghan Uniform Police

NCO graduation with Briga-

dier General Zarifi (the Af-

gahan Police Training Gen-

eral). They also had a chance

to talk with several NCO’s

and Officers in the company

and express their gratitude on

what a good job everyone is do-

ing.

I thank you again for your con-

tinued prayers and support and

look forward to seeing everyone

upon our return. We can begin

to see the light at the end of the

tunnel of our long journey.

Thank you

God Bless!

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other gift. 1LT Graham got his gift and opened it and it was a pair of thong panties, 2 sneaker ball deodorizers and some KY jelly. Everyone in the platoon busted out with laughter. It seemed that we had saved the best for last. After that the platoon posed for a platoon photo to show of the gifts (including 1LT Graham wearing the thongs, over his uniform of course). It was good to get together

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for a short minute and pause from our everyday mission and laugh and have a little fun. Special thanks go out to the Graham family for the won-derful gifts and the smiles they produced on this cool Decem-ber afternoon.

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