Cheap rent, need roomates

Robert Wollenberg · Post by **Robert Wollenberg** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 12:55 am

Hey guys, I'm now accepting applications for roommates. Rent is cheap. All utilites are included. Unfortunately the nearest toilet or shower is in a different building, however, it's a small price to pay for living in the lap of luxury. You will get your own bunk, and two, I repeat two wall lockers. And one may even lock (if your the first one here. I already took the other two that lock. The rest are all broken) Please bring your own body armor and weapons as good gear is hard to come by here. I look forward to hearing from you. You'll have to e-mail me as commerical phone lines are also not available. Hurry while there's still room available.

The Afghan in the other picture with me is the gentleman in charge of making sure the housing area stays clean. He sweeps up the leaves and makes sure the trash stays empty. I guess that's all he does. I'm not really sure to be honest. A very nice guy though. We talk a little every morning. He keeps trying to teach me new Dari words, but I tend to forget by the next time I see him. Damn it.

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:17 am

What no 12ft tall concrete walls? I really need to upload some pics from my living area.

So how do you like those ABUs?

Robert Wollenberg · Post by **Robert Wollenberg** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 2:20 am

We've got some Jersey Barriers, but nothing like what you have. We've got some of those other barriers too, the cloth lined cages filled with dirt. But around the housing area I live in, we've got a shitty brick wall about 10ft. high or so with some sheet metal on top of that held up with some sticks. There's nothing secure about where I live. Nothing. It's creapy man, I'm telling you. I'd way rather be back at Balad then here.
in this pick you can see part of the road I have to walk down to get to where I live. Up on the right, where the guards are standing around is where I get into the compound where I sleep. The barriers you see at the corner are only around the entrance. The rest of the perimeter you could probably fall through if you leaned against it. So, as you can see, I don't get a sidewalk to walk down. You just have to hope you make it from one gate to the next without being hit by a car or blown up by one.
I'm not too worried about posting any of this on the web since hundreds if not thousands of Afghans walk/drive through here every day. So it's not like this isn't already public knowledge to anybody how might wish to use it agianst U.S. forces. Although I almost got jacked up taking the pictures. lol. Luckily I'm Public Affairs so as soon as I said that, everyone backed of. :)

cargodz · Post by **cargodz** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 6:59 am

Wow... And I thought you had it bad Rob, what a beautiful neighborhood... And you've got your own housekeeper

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lol

Robert Wollenberg · Post by **Robert Wollenberg** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:40 am

Yeah ... lol, this place rocks. Nothing like swinging buy Wendy's on my way home from work for a goat burger or something. I might have to buy a summer home here. lol.

cargodz · Post by **cargodz** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:14 am

Airforceyooper wrote:Nothing like swinging by Wendy's on my way home from work for a goat burger or something. lol.

Get the extra goat cheesy fries too :happy055:

lol

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:43 am

Goat cheese fries actually sounds really good...

JASON96R · Post by **JASON96R** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:20 pm

BBQ'd goat is actually really good, and I'm not joking it is good. Also, the mystery meat on a stick I would eat in Korea is good too. Questions do you have AC in the summer and cable/sat.

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:31 pm

Wow that place reminds me of turkey.

You know my unit was slated for afganatsan, it wasn't till the last few months that my AEF got changed to Iraqi.

Robert Wollenberg · Post by **Robert Wollenberg** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:38 pm

I sleep almost right under the heater at the far end of the porch. I have a space heater at my feat and the other one blows over me. The porch is so drafty, with all three heaters going, some mornings I wake up and it's about 60 in there. We're trying to plug holes and cracks as we find them with toilet paper and 90MPH tape, but it's still very drafty. And those windows don't help either. We've got styrofoam in a couple windows, but can't find any more for the rest of the windows. The windows are not weathershild or anything, we're talking a single pane of glass barley holding onto the window frame. In a way, it's kinda funny, but the cold weather is just getting here. It will be snowing soon. Then things will get real interesting.