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MOT E's bad fortune continues. Returning from patrol yesterday, the automatic transmission on one of their vehicles broke down. There was nothing else to do than to call in the recovery truck, load the Mercedes, and to ride piggy-back to the repair workshop in Camp Marmal. MOT D, on the other hand, got in two spare wheels today, and loaded up their punctured wheels on the same recovery truck, so basically they are operational again.

For the Provincial Office it was a Tuesday like any other. OCCP meeting, then to the Provincial Development Council meeting, then a shortened version of a security meeting, and in the afternoon a meeting with the chief of the National Directorate of Security. That many meetings means that many reports. The interpreters are rotating again shortly, so I wrote a personal evaluation paper on each one, as well as certificates of employment here at the PO for them all. And, I documented the new HLS (helicopter landing site) near the PO. We had to move it a little because the fruit tree saplings in the previous field had grown too tall.


The meeting of the Provincial Development Council.


The governor himself had taken off his necktie, but it apparently didn't help him relax: He told the chief of the Department of Public Works to leave the meeting because he was useless, and the chief of the Department of Agriculture to choose between doing his job or resigning.


There was a stray dog in our street at least five times the size of Isaf, but she drove him off by barking like mad.