Why am I in Kabul.
Flip, I enjoy the financial services business and was the office manager of my company's office in Pensacola. But there is a lot of money to be made out in the field, so I decided to go that route. Unfortunately, my replacement took over for me and the next day in the field just happened to be 9/11/01. To make a long story short the next year or so was pretty lean times in my business as a lot of people didn't want to do anything with their money (investing, refinancing, etc...) so when Kellogg Brown and Root called again (I had previously worked for them in Somalia/94 and in the Marshall Islands/98) I decided to go with them until things got better. So after two different tours in Djibouti, Africa and in Afghanistan since February I've been with them. The money has been good and "consistent" but come this March (possibly May) I'm coming home for good to enjoy my family, Gold Wing and to, hopefully, pick up a new Rocket. I maintained all my licenses in the financial services arena (read: paid my annual money to the various agencies to keep my licenses in force) so when I come back I'll go back into that part time and do a lot of riding in between and looking forward to it.
And as to what I do right now I run a ROWPU (Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit) to make water over here for the camp I am in.
And as for being worried about the area I'm in, I put it like this, I worry more about "danger" and losing my life, riding my Gold Wing down Hwy 29 from home (Molino, FL) to Pensacola with the traffic there than I ever have over here (or in Mogadishu, Djibouti, Kandahar, Bagram or Kabul).
Dennis