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kandahar diary a year in afghanistan kandahar diary a year in afghanistan a new old direction december 23 2010 5 comments this will be my very last post on this blog it s taken a lot of phone calls arm twisting late nights cold beers reactivation of an old network and a dozen meetings with lawyers and accountants but it s finally here i ve re opened the business i was running with two great mates and thorough professionals before the gfc blew into town and blew us all out onto individual contracts it s a gamble but i figure why work my butt off for someone else when i can do the same for myself it s a no brainer really we don t profess to be one of the big boys and don t expect to ever threaten their business but we were doing some great work in a smaller niche and getting great responses from our clients we believe we can do that again we ve got the talent and the drive to make it work again so i figured why the hell not and here we are you can check us out here and view our re launch announcement old and future blog posts here i hope we can provide you with something of interest in the blog and of course we re always ready to assist if you need our services to all of my readers here at kandahar diary thanks for your support and being part of the journey stay safe centurion posted in uncategorized moving on to god knows where october 20 2010 23 comments two days ago i resigned from my contract there are so many reasons i did that personal and professional but it finally boiled down to the fact that my heart wasn t in it anymore and a realisation that while i felt and still feel a sense of duty and responsibility to the company i felt a higher duty to my family i had been posted from my operational role to one in plans and that didn t really float my boat so i did some major soul searching while on leave you have to be committed to what you do to justify the risk and the separation from the family i just didn t feel that commitment anymore so it looks like i won t be making that year in afghanistan after all i m job hunting now and i ll stay on the circuit i m sure some time soon i ll be off to another place in another role i m still hoping to find that cushy fly in fly out security consultancy role i plan to re badge this blog to make it more about life on the circuit more generally and keep you up to date on the various assignments that take me wherever they may so for now it might be slim pickings here but keep me bookmarked until then it s time to catch up on all the chores around the house that have needed a man s touch for too long and time to reconnect with my family and with the ancient art of beer drinking if you re a contractor somewhere out there stay ready and be safe to paraphrase orwell and churchill if you re at home and sleeping peacefully tonight spare a thought for all those rough men out here who stand ready to do violence on your behalf thanks for being part of the journey posted in operations random observations centurion stands down september 3 2010 2 comments this time tomorrow night i ll have a cold beer in my hand and a crisp green garden salad big enough to choke a horse in front of me today was as different a picture to that as could possibly be tanker roll over two ambushes one of my guards shot and killed at close range driving through kandahar city meeting the grieving families of my recent kia these people give a whole new meaning to the term stoic grilled by a commercial compliance desk jockey from the client s dubai office why do you stop some of the convoy in an ambush well ma am mostly it s because there is a crater in the road from the initiating ied but dead tanker and escort drivers also have something to do with it jesus wept and all wrapped up with one tanker and a guard team brassed up by the ana outside of a fob to the west of here after shooting up the tanker and my guys the ana then had the front to confiscate their weapons and demand compensation remember this is the very same ana karzai is insisting is ready to step up and guarantee the security of this place and the vital fuel convoys that traverse it two mirages again doing their thing in the dusk sky over kaf the muezzin s song and fat little sparrows chirping in the razor wire as the crickets chirruped made this evening s smoke a peaceful few minutes to end another hectic day in kandahar back in a little over three weeks all callsigns this is centurion out posted in life society operations random observations previous entries pages about kandahar diary recent posts a new old direction moving on to god knows where centurion stands down leave and a pavlov s dog random thought 561 email subscription enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address sign me up join 83 other subscribers top posts a new old direction moving on to god knows where centurion stands down leave and a pavlov s dog random thought 561 create a free website or blog at 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