Monday we popped over to the MOI quickly in the morning. We just needed to get a signature from BG Yarmand to fix a pay issue for our biometric enrollers out in the field. Some months back they gave travel pay to all the police field inventory clerks, but made a mistake and forgot all the biometric enrollers. So we've been working for months to get them paid equally. What a pain. It's frustrating that the afghans are unable to solve this for themselves. Normally I wouldn't bother but the problem was caused by someone in another command at CSTC-A, so I feel somewhat obligated to help solve it. To solve it we are making a degree for the Minister of the Interior to sign. It seems like paying 60 guys is such a trivial problem to bring the the minister, but because of the limited autonomy in their chain of command, that's what we have to do.
Monday night Jeff came back from R&R. I tried really hard while he was gone to solve problems and not store them up for him when he returns. But as we were going over all the issues, I realized we left more than we thought. Ah well, good thing he likes to solve problems.
Today was another mind-numbingly boring day at MOI. We had visitors down from Bagram and they were visiting the Biometrics, Criminal Technique and Crime Scene Investigators offices. Afghan's love visitors and love to talk about their offices, and their problems, so all the meetings took twice as long as scheduled. I hadn't been to all the labs before so it was neat to see some things like the ballistics lab. But after four hours, I was tired of talking and touring.
Anwar was sooooo happy that Jeff came back:
Jeff gets a hug but you only get a hand squeeze on the knee? I think we now know Anwar's affection priorities ;-)
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