There still wasn't any kind of transport to Aybak from CNL available, so today's main task was to do fill in the personnel evaluation forms for those PO staff members, who are rotating home. Actually, I filled in the forms also for those who stay but continue in a different position. This is to help their next commander to make their final evaluations. Once I had done those it was time for lunch, after which was the Suomi-brief. Then I talked for a while with staff officers from G2 (intelligence) and G3 (operations). In the afternoon I put on my CBA (combat body armour) and walked around the camp for two hours - that's 30 minutes more than yesterday. The track around the camp has been measured to be 1011 metres long, and one lap took eight to ten minutes. At some point I lost count of the laps, but in two hours I managed to do ten or more. Or at least that's what my feet felt like. The whole day was exceptionally warm for this time of year, almost 18 degrees in the afternoon.
A woman was exercising on the track around the camp with "the Beast": a car tire on the end of a rope.
Today the Finnish parliament made the decision to send
more troops to Afghanistan. That's all very fine, but the way the recruiting of career officers is going, especially to the higher level tasks, it might be necessary to improve the salaries once again, or to find some other means of getting people to apply.
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