V.I.P.s

Last night we were invited to the provincial governor's office for the weekly security meeting. The only item on the agenda was the upcoming second round of the presidential elections. We discussed various security issues that concern the election process and had two cups of tea.


The view towards the Provincial Governor's desk from my (very comfortable) chair.

On the way back I put my camera on Lion's windshield and recorded a 10-minute video of the whole drive back to the safe house, but nothing unusual happened. The video might still be interesting to watch later. At the PO, everybody spent the afternoon getting ready for a delegation of V.I.P.s: The commanders of the Finnish Defence Forces, the Army, and Pori Brigade, and of course their host, the commander of the Finnish Contingent in Afghanistan - and their CPT (Close Protection Team). They arrived, we briefed them and showed them around, we had coffee, and then they left.


Here the generals are having a look at MOT Echo's equipment.

In the evening I wrote a LIREP (liaison report) on the security meeting and also prepared an order for an upcoming LFX (live fire exercise). It's all in a day's work.


PO staff waiting for the V.I.P.s to arrive (...but not until a couple of hours).


It's still reasonably warm in even the shade, but in direct sunlight it's at least ten degrees warmer.

They've predicted rains for the coming week! That would be the first rain here since my arrival. Oh, by the way, there was an earthquake two nights ago, when I was in CNL. I forgot to mention it, because it happened around midnight and I never woke up to experience it. Many of my colleagues did, and the quake was really quite strong. The centre was near Kabul, where around one hundred buildings were damaged and four people were killed in a collapsed building (reportedly). NFDK (no futher details known).