We welcome MC2 Sarah Foster back!!
Her old pages are HERE and HERE.
22 Apr 2011:
Hey guys! Sorry I haven't updated for awhile, I moved from the Kabul News Bureau, to here in Bagram, which has been a BIG change. I went from an office of allll women, to an office of allll dudes! Talk about a culture shock! I have started referring to myself as Snow White, since I have seven "dwarves" that work for me. As you can see from the photo! I stay very busy, sending my broadcasters to run around the country filming events and activities. That pretty much restricts me to sitting behind my desk 12+ hours a day, except to eat and go to the gym. Woo hoo!
Requests from me and the Dwarves!
Sugar Free Red Bull
Wool socks (green, brown, khaki)
Special K Bars
Protein shake stuff
Healthy Snacks (granola bars, etc)
Flaming Hot Cheetos
Sports stuff (footballs, soccer balls, games, etc) Drink mixes (cherry is a favorite, so is pomegranate) Dried Fruit Batteries (AA, AAA) Oatmeal Cream Pies Hershey's Chocolate Bars w/Almonds Caramel Corn Anything having to do with fitness!
Thank you all so much for your support, Major shout outs to the Pohl family and to Girl Scout Troop 388 in New York! Y'all have been just so great and supportive, and make my days brighter and even more bearable!
Thanks!
Sailor Sarah
V/R,
MC2 (AW) Sarah E. Foster, USN
17 Mar 2011
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07 Mar 2011
Can you dig it?!
This photo is from a tree planting ceremony, with General Patreus, Ambassador Eikenberry, the Mayor of Kabul, and several other higher ups.
U.S. Forces - Afghanistan and the U.S. Embassy donated hundreds of thousands of trees to Afghanistan, 75,000 in Kabul alone. It was a nice ceremony, replete with speeches, snow, and golden shovels.
The weather has been fluctuating a lot as of late, I'm looking forward to complaining about heat, and as I am a southern Californian, chills do not agree with me.
Recent requests!
It's funny, I've always been in an office/environment of all men, but this deployment have found my office of all women a nice change. It A.
smells better, B. has better conversations, and C. provides hobbies that hanging with dudes does not (knitting, quilting, crocheting).
So, as a group of females, we would like, (please)
Jog Bras (mediums)
Gray V-necks (really any color but white as the laundry doesn't separate things, big surprise) Exercise socks (size 7-10 shoe) Cotton undies (size medium again, nothing fancy as we are in a war
zone!)
Headbands (the thick fabric ones)
Clinical Strength deodorant
Lotions
Air fresheners (ideally the ones that are timed to spray every now and then, in a variety of scents!) Chicken noodle soup Indian and Thai food packets (we have a microwave and an electric kettle. I know, spoiled) Energy drinks
Aaaand that's about it!
Big thanks to everyone for all your support, Maryland, Connecticut, New York, California, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, All Y'all!
I have been doing my best to send thank you notes and respond to letters, sorry if I missed you!
Thanks again, everyone, you have been a big help in getting through this deployment. We all really appreciate you.
V/R,
MC2 (AW) Sarah E. Foster, USN
13 Feb 2011
This is me before I plunged into a burning building... with a video camera.
Pretty cool story, you can find it on dvidshub.net under my name!
Thank you everyone for your amazing care packages and letters, I have done my best to write thank you notes to everyone, but if I lost your contact info, I'm sorry! Things have been SUPER busy around here, one of my broadcasters went home last week (tour was over) so now we're double booked and running all over Kabul like chickens with our heads cut off.
In the best way possible. I've already been gone for 6 weeks, and it has fairly flown by. Only 4.5 months left. Yess....
Requests Du Jour!
almonds
dried fruit
exercise socks (low-cut, womens size 7-9, colorful is preferred!) orange tic tacs sugar free red bulls *my fave!
Razors
Feminine hygiene Products
Aveeno body wash, face wash, lotion, shampoo and conditioner Neutrogena
facial sunscreen 30 SPF Clinical strength deoderant (women) Deep conditioner (it's REALLY dry here) Healthy snacks Lite Microwave
popcorn/kettlecorn
And anything else you can't imagine spending 6 months without! Thank you again to everyone who has been so generous in their donations. We have given away quite a lot of goodies to the Locals and donated a bunch to our MWR for everyone else. It's just so nice to get a package from someone who cares.
Thanks, y'all!
Sarah and Co.
12 Jan 2011
Hello all! This is my FOURTH time using this site, my second time in Afghanistan. I absolutely love getting letters and packages from people all over the country that love their sailors. I'm a television broadcaster that works for AFN in Kabul, Afghanistan. We have a small bureau here with Army, Navy and Air Force all in one room. We're from Washington, DC, California, Colorado, Nebraska, and Alabama, so we pretty much have the whole country covered! It's interesting to interact with other forces, and of course we all make fun of each other all day long. Go Navy, right? Our job is to produce television and radio packages to broadcast on AFN and the Pentagon Channel. You can also find our stuff on YouTube and dvidshub. It's an amazing job, with great opportunities to travel around the country and see some fascinating sights.
Ok, down to business! We do have a microwave (pirated from another office!), we do have a laundry service, have electricity (110), and live in tents AND relocatable buildings!
Some specific things we crave are
Quilting supplies (fabric, patterns, etc)
Amy's vegetarian soups
Dried hummus
Lo-carb Monsters
Hot tamales (the candy)
almonds
luna bars
dried fruit
exercise socks
febreze
orange tic tacs
sugar free red bulls
Chapstick
Razors
Feminine Hygiene Products
Aveeno body wash, face wash, lotion
travel size toiletries (we travel a lot)
Shampoos, conditioner, body wash (for the locals, doesn't have to be fancy!)
Maybelline Falsies Black Mascara (i know, makeup in a war zone, but it's important to feel like a girl sometimes)
Green socks (womens size 9)
Athletic Socks (womens size 9)
Clinical strength deoderant (men and women)
Aaaaand that's all i can think of for now, in terms of specifics. If there's anything you can think of that YOU couldn't live without for 6 months, please feel free! You never know what you miss until you miss it.
Thank you so much, I look forward to hearing from you!
Sailor Sally