Josh with his Individual Body Armor assembled (finally)

Well today was a day off & Easter.  Happy Easter everyone.  He has risen indeed.  This afternoon all 30 of us Navy folks worked on assembling our individual body armor (also known as IBA).   The millitary has slowly added more body armor to protect its troops going into battle. I'm not sure how a doc can move let alone take care of patient's in this heavy armor.  Nevertheless this body armor has proven to protect soldiers and safe lives so no matter how heavy it I'm planning on wearing it as much as I can. 

Well the weather was pretty rainy here today.  Friday we started classes learning the prominent language in Afghanistan, Dari.   This class in addition to several others on topics like interpreters & cultural matters where largely taught by local Afghans who have been brought over to teach us the ways of their people which was really interesting.  Tomorrow classes resume.  Looks like we won't be shooting any guns for 3 weeks and thats when we'll start learning how to do convoys and drive the Humvees.  We're planning on doing some 2-3 mile hikes this week with our 70 lb body armor on to get our bodies used to this new armor.