[maine-iac7]

Finally got some Christmas pics from BATTLE CO., in the Korengal Valley, high in the isolated mountain of north eastern Afghanistan...My grandson send the camera in DECEMBER! and we thought it was forever lost. But I got it this last week - with stamps on the envelope stating it had been "missent" to another APO - where it evidently sat for months!

enjoying some food and warm socks and a box of boxes full of goodies...

"home"

5 more months of deployment - Bad guys still there - still bad, but this month will tell if it's going to be as bad as last spring/summer/fall...thankfully, they won't have to do another winter this deployment - but will catch two on the next one. By then, things should've calmed down -

[patriciaruth]

Thank you for the great pictures!!