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CDR Michael J. Hassien
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Afghanistan
CDR Michael J. Hassien
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(This address has been requested 56 times.) (NOTE **)
Sailor's Title: Garrison Commander
APO/FPO: APO AE (Note 1*)
Added here: 27 June 2006
End date: 22 Aug 2006 (Note 3*)
Contact for approx number of Males: 14, Females: 2 (Note 5*)
Unit is from: Composite Unit (Note 6*)

Note: CDR Michael J. Hassien was dropped from this list on 21 Sep 2006 due to 60 days of no contact.

23 Jul 2006:
I want to thank all those that sent the many care packages, and for their extreme generosity. We are all tremendously grateful for the movies, snacks, gum, toiletries, tools, zip-lock bags and water flavor packets. All the little things make the greatest differences in the world when you’re so far away from home.

The mission is going well so far. In addition to our mentoring responsibilities to the Afghan National Army, we (the Navy team) have numerous projects we are in full support of. We are focused on humanitarian efforts to the local villages and communities. We are helping to put in wells to pump water to the local villagers. The U.S. is funding an elementary school being built. It is to be completed in the next 2 weeks. There are many other efforts also. I’m extremely fortunate to have such an incredible talent pool on this team to leverage from. Everyone has been extremely eager to help, and to volunteer on efforts that fall well outside their “job jars”. The camaraderie continues to solidify as we are forced to do more, with less.

For some local conditions: Imagine a place where you almost never see an airplane in the sky. We go weeks without seeing a single one. And if we do, it’s only a military cargo aircraft coming to drop off supplies and mail. I have never seen a single one in the upper altitudes. It’s an odd and ominous feeling when you’re so used to seeing aircraft everyday at home, or hearing them, or seeing their histories across the upper sky (i.e., contrails)

We’ve had one day here where it was “partly cloudy”, and even then it was for only about 8 hours. All the rest of the time here is open blue sky. Everyday! Not a cloud in sight. There is almost no humidity here, hence no moisture in the air to help form clouds. Its extremely dry….its a desert!

Just as a data point, today was 118 degrees. Nice and toasty for those liking the warmer side of things. For those interested in keeping up with our weather here, please go to: http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp?locCode=OAMS We run a few degrees higher where we’re at because of the radiated heat from the sand and rocks. You’ll notice that the “lows” here at Mazar-e-Sharif are higher than the “highs” of many places back home.

As far as desires, we probably have pretty fair stock of water flavor packets now. They’re great. Because it is so hot here, you have to religiously drink something, and flavored water is far better than plain (most people here agree).

DVDs/CDs are always a big hit. Movies at night are very popular.

Coozies to keep the water or Gatorade cold (we received two already….thank you)

Energy bars (Power Bars)

Colored felt pens

Colored (red, blue, green and black) gel pens.

Compasses….surprisingly the Army didn’t provide us any.

Gourmet coffees and teas

Thank you all again for your generosity, kindness, and thoughtfulness.

Warmest regards,

M~

CDR Michael J. Hassien, USN
Dep RCAG CDR / Garrison Commander
Mazar-e-Sharif
Afghanistan

27 Jun 2006
Hello~

First of all we, collectively, thank you for all that you're doing to support not only us, but our other Service members around the world. Its humbling to think that there are so many folks back home that are willing to help and offer their time for people they don't personally know.

We're a group of Navy folks embedded with the Army here. It's truly an unusual and "out-of-the-box" experience working in a land-locked country. However, its extremely gratifying and rewarding to help the Afghanistan National Army train and operate to protect their own country.

We live in B-huts here. They're small wooden buildings, much like small cabins you might see at a lakefront summer camp (only without the lake here). 6-8 people per B-hut. They're open bay, but people build small partitions for a bit of privacy.

Right now its summer, and the temperatures range from 115-120 degrees during the day and 85-90 in the evenings. Its very windy this time of year. Dust and sand are everywhere. The sand here is extremely fine...on the order of powder. Its gets into everything....its in the air all around you.

The Navy group here is a great mix of folks. We're Individual Augmentees, meaning we're not all assigned to the same command. We have a couple of people from Hawaii, two from California, one from Wisconsin, Montana, Virginia, Texas, Tennessee, Connecticut, Illinois, Missouri, Florida, Massachusetts, and Maryland.

Things that would be helpful here include:
- any DVDs
- sports equipment (softballs, gloves, soccer balls, footballs
- soda "coozies"
- packets to flavor bottles of water
- boot inserts (gel packs), various sizes
- artificial tear eyedrops (not Visine, nor anything medicated)
- household tools (hammers, screwdrivers, pliers) and cordless drills (and drill bits)
- compasses
- blankets for winter
- ziplock bags (all sizes)
- gum

Thank you very much again for all that you're doing.

Warmest regards,
CDR Michael Hassien, USN

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