Atmar

Today was... interesting.

We went over to MOI about 1030 to graduate some more enrollers. Instead of police this time, they were contracted enrollers. They were trained completely by the afghan instructors though without help from the American contractors. That marks a first. So I ordered $20 dollars worth of cookies to celebrate. Also, the American contractor refused to print out certificates so I asked LTC Anwar to have some printed commercially and I'd pay him back. My distaste for the American contractor here is slowly building. (Maybe not so slowly.)

We bummed around (talked) from 1200-1400 waiting for a meeting with LTG Wasim. That's the first time I'd met him. I don't like he likes Anwar for some reason because he didn't shake Anwar's hand. He was 45 minutes late to the meeting away. General Macdonald showed up so mostly it was the American talking amongst ourselves.

Then we had a meeting with Ministar Atmar at 1500. Which started about 1530. That meeting was a mess. There were a bunch of people there. Some from my own shop. We were talking before hand and none of us knew what the meeting was about or why we were there. Turns out it was a sales pitch by someone from Ericsson about installing a 3G or 4G wireless network. There were a ton of military guys there and most of us were looking at each other in shock that we called over for this type of meeting. General Macdonald, to her credit, found out what the meeting was about ahead of time and just left. Well, I got to meet the famous Minister Atmar anyway. Seemed like an ok guy, except the fact that the whole meeting was just weird.

There still water in the pool so I guess it's not leaking.