The entire staff of PO Aybak, including our two MOT's and the visiting MMT, spent the best part of today doing something that is potentially quite useless: planning and practising the defence of our little compound. I tried hard not to get frustrated by what was going on, but ultimately failed. There were, I have to admit, moments during the training from which one could learn something, but they were vastly overshadowed by other, longer moments of agonising uselessness. Some structural improvements took place at the PO today, though, when the welders that I had requested to come in yesterday finally arrived today, and they actually finished their job on the very same day. The job was to repair a roof support post, that an APC (armoured personnel carrier) of a visiting German EW unit (electronic warfare) managed to reverse into and bend. The post was mended and painted along with two other minor jobs, and I was glad to pay them 95 USD. Three guys for a half day's work. That in a country where the average montly wages is about 50 to 100 dollars. They must think we are stupid, and in a way we are. Furthermore, we also got our diesel and water supplys replenished today, which was much needed. That also cost a small fortune, but it's Swedish taxpayers money, so we don't mind that much.
Teaching the fine art of PO defence to H the guard with the kind assistance of Y the IP.
An example of Afghan standards in welding electrical supply.
(It's no coincidence that the contraption is positioned above the drainage: the radiator was leaking heavily.)
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