Initial Impressions...

This is a neat place. We have Navy, Coast Guard and Army here and we're right on the Persian Gulf. The post itself is rather industrial, but the beauty of the water more than makes up for it right now. I like the contrast of so many worlds in one place - Middle East, American; various military; etc. This post is rather small, so I think it will be possible to build social networks very quickly. The bad flip side to that will be that it will take a short period of time for folks to get board and start doing stupid stuff. It looks like I will be able to get out some and visit my units at a Camp Arifjon which is only a few minutes away by car. I was able to go there yesterday and do a little scouting and meet some of my fellow chaplains - a good networking opportunity for me... SPC Sanders (my chaplain assistant) and I are excited and looking forward to getting to work here. We're setting into our various living quarters- he's in the open bay barracks and I'm in a scary little room in a building of scary little rooms... It'll be fine soon, I just need to get used to it and tweak it a bit... I'm really looking forward to doing ministry of presence here - already had a talk with an american civilian working here about God and family...interesting place/ cross-roads of people...