No A/C

I was awoken by the duty officer knocking on my door at 0556. There was no electricity in the building. It was already getting light outside. I told the DO to wake up K and T and to meet me at the generators. They were running, but there were error messages in all units. We shut down the machines and tried to restart them. Nothing happened. We still had communications, and the freezer holds its temperature for hours, so the situation was not critical, but serious nevertheless. It took us a little more than two hours to identify the problem, bypass it and get the generators going again. In doing this the generator experts from the Swedish national support element helped us over the phone (once they had woken up properly). They took the breakdown so seriously, that they decided to replace the whole generator unit number 2 at the earliest possible opportunity.

Then K and I decided to do a routine check to the guards house. We ispected their weapons and equipment, and afterwards the guards invited us to sit down and have a cup of tea. So we did, like you do down here, and talked about this and that. Then there was a phonecall over the secure telephone. After lunch I had a nap. Then I paid 20 dollars to the guard who had had the butt of his AK-47 repaired really quickly, just as we told him to. It took me longer than usual (or yesterday - today was my second briefing as OiC) to prepare for the briefing, which was held at 1700, as it's Thursday. Before the barbecue I prepared the SITREP (Situation Report) for PRT. After dinner I read through some more reports and prepared documents for tomorrow. After that I invited M and O-P to the Team Leader Meeting, in which we plan the next week in detail, and prepare an outline for the week after that. Then I had a shower and all that.

Tomorrow is Friday, which is usually M/A (Maintenance and Administrative duties) day. I certainly hope that there will be less to do tomorrow (I know there won't - but I can't say it here, because for security reasons I will not post any information concerning the future in this blog. All you read has already happened).


There are many peculiar signs around the compound. This is one of them.