leanin' H said:
Broke Cowboy, I hope ya stay safe! Are you in the service? How long til ya come back?
Yes - old fighter pilot in the Canuck Air Force - stuck on a ground job patrolling the frontier - alone and sometimes very afraid.

Usually quite calm but always very volatile.
4 different nationalities, 2 sub national players, a handfiul of political parties, a couple dictatorships, one democracy, two international terrorist groups, criminal and drug activity, three main religions - and a schitt locker full of hatred.
From one side mainly. Email is monitored so I will not name it.
We patrol in the middle of it every day and most nights in our nice jeeps and on foot. 10 of us - God looks after drunks and fools they say - no booze here so you know what that means!
19 more months to go - 24 month tour - get to see the family for two weeks (R&R flights home) at a time - three times over the next two years. Wife and kids are the strong ones.
Raise cattle with the family when I am home. Miss it more than I ever thought I would - sold almost all of them before I came over - wife is down to 20 or 30 head - far cry from before - she runs the place now.
Not so bad though - a few of my folks were gone from 1939 to 1944 and one Uncle did not get back until 1946 - he was a Japanese prisoner and lost a leg in the camps.
Stars were really good last night - and the little jackals were singing to beat the band - sorry for the rambling hijack
Thanks for the thoughts
BC