Ryan's First Comments

Excerpt from Ryan's e-mail...

Oh, get this...my favorite thing to do here is..take a bottle of water and pour it on the dirt. We have a small patch of grass outside the shop that we are growing. Well right now it is just dirt and grass seed but we have built a little greenhouse over it and water it daily, sometimes twice a day. And we remove the greenhouse at night so the grass can breathe. I'll get pictures of it.
We kind of walk everywhere. Everything is located around center here in CC. Think of it as a wagon wheel. Off of one spoke you have the BX and Subway,BK,Baskin Robbins,etc. On another you have the gym and movie theater. The third is a coffee shop and dorms, fourth is more dorms, fifth is a chow hall. And we do walk everywhere here at CC. We have to take a bus to Ops Town. That is where all the work takes place. It's about three miles from here, but don't worry. It is three miles from one side of this base to the other side. You never leave the base going from CC to Ops Town. The base is HUGE. And it's only going to get bigger. There is construction everywhere. They are building more flightline, more buildings, more everything. It is going to be a permenant base when it is all said and done I think. The next Korea; one year unaccompanied. No more deployed, just permanent party.