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5/17/2008 from Lt. Kelly to Mrs. Deitch

122 degrees in Jalalabad today, I'm glad it hasn't gotten warm yet.
 

5/10/2008 from Dan to Mrs. Deitch

It's been a while since I sent any pictures. Sorry, I've been pretty busy since I returned from R&R towards the middle of March. Everything is going well over here, it is getting real hot, and getting close to 100 degrees every day now, and going over some times. But I can still see snow on the mountains, and I have a good A/C unit on my B-Hut where I sleep.

We just had some former professional baseball players come visit us. One of the pictures is me with former Yankee pitcher Jeff Nelson, and his 2000 World Series Ring. Unfortunately that picture didn't come out as well as I would have liked, because of the glare off of the diamonds. My friend Tom is in another picture with Tim Salmon, and Mike Remlinger. I also included a few pictures of our guys at work over in the Ammo Supply Point.

   

Dan Kelly

12/8/2007

Greetings,

I thought that I would send along a few pictures from out here. Everything continues to go well. I spent Thanksgiving at Camp Keating, and you can see some of the pictures from that trip. I am also getting ready to move to Jalalabad around the end of the month to work at my Brigade's Support Operation Office.

The first two pictures are from my visit to Camp Keating around Thanksgiving. In it you will see one of our interpreters teaching about 20 local children and teenagers. This is something new in the area, and is actually held in the Dining facility on Camp Keating. The days that I was there the children were learning their ABC's, how to write their names in English, and received school supplies that have been donated.

The next picture is of Thanksgiving dinner, at Camp Keating. It was actually pretty good, our cooks did a great job.

Some other pictures from Camp Keating is of the best mode of transportation up to OP Warheit. Donkey's really help on the climb up to the OP's.

There is also a picture of the Maintenance team at Camp Keating, SSG Pajak, SPC Shover, Me, SGT Pilkington, and SPC Gonzalez.

Back on Naray you will see my roommate Cliff, decorating the Christmas tree that we have in our room, and another picture is of my lead welder SGT Carlos Enciso as he re-enlist in the army for 6 more years.

  

The other picture is at CP Delta, as one of our welders SPC Frick, did some modifications to a gate that the Afghan Border Police use to control the flow of traffic on the road.

The last picture is of the entire Forward Support Troop that is on FOB Naray.

Thanks for all the support.

Dan Kelly
FOB Naray, Afghanistan

11/9/07

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still doing well. Here are a few more pictures from over the last month. A few of me at the range doing some training with the Afghan National Army, shooting their AK-47s and learning about the weapons they use.

Another is a picture of our maintenance bay where we work to keep everyone running, in Task Force Saber.

The people in the picture with the flag are the officers and First Sergeant of Forward Support Troop, 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry, Holding the 173rd Airborne Flag CPT Peter Gilbert, 1SG Willie McClendon, From left to right in front - Chief Klein, LT Matt Booth, Me, LT Cliff Caughron.

The picture of the fields was taken as the locals were working on harvesting their corn crop, entirely by hand. You can see all the stacks in the middle of the fields. They got all of those fields harvested in about 2 weeks.

The last picture of the stone building up on the hill, is the OP above Camp Monti, where I have 6 mechanics working in support of our C Troop.

Thanks for all the support.

Dan Kelly
FOB Naray, Afghanistan

11/5/07

Mrs Deitch, Mrs Henry,

Thank you very much for the 5 large boxes that I recently received from the school. I'm hoping that this note gets passed along to everyone who contributed. My soldier's and I really appreciate all the support. I'm not sure who put the picture of the river and mountain from Wells into the package, but it really hit home for one of our Soldiers. SFC Gray runs the day to day operations here on the FOB, during some of our conversations I found out that he had family from upstate, NY in the Wells area that he would visit when he was younger. When I saw the picture, I showed it to him, and he is positive that he has been fishing in that river, at that very spot. He says that just looking at the picture brought back a lot of good memories from when he was younger, and he sends his thanks along as well. I enjoyed reading the local papers, and catching up on some of the events from back home, and of course the snacks, and hygine products are always appreciated. Thanks again to everyone who helped.

Daniel Kelly
FOB Naray, Afghanistan
 

10/27/07

Dan,

I received your School Partnership Power Point and forwarded it to all Principals and Student Activity Advisors. My students are writing letters as I type. Would you send the names and addresses of any of your men that would like to get letters. I was so sad to hear from your Mom that some of them didn't get boxes. We will take care of them!

I am going to contact the local printing companies to ask for donations of pens etc. We will have something for you soon.

Hope you are well and know that I pray daily for the well being of you and your men.

Regards,
Nancy Deitch

10/28/07

Mrs. Deitch,

Thank you very much for you help in the School Partnership Program, and all of the support. It's not usually my mission, but I'm going to try and go out to the schools to help hand out some of the supplies we have received in the next couple of weeks. I'm not going to have too many chances to do that type of stuff, because I'm going to be moving to work in Jalalabad at my Brigade's Headquarters around December.

I have several Soldiers who do not receive much mail, and would enjoy hearing from back in the States.

• Norman Howard

• Jerome Johnson

• Robert Monast

• Ian Buckley

All of these guys have the same address:
D TRP, 1-91 CAV
Task Force Saber
173rd ABCT
APO, AE 09354

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