meet shadow

This is Shadow. I can't remember his name in Pashto, but shadow is their word for monkey. He is a cute little guy, who eats all kinds of stuff, and stands about 3 feet tall when he stands up straight. We don't get to near him as he is just a little aggressive when we have all of our gear on. Shadow is at one of our ANP stations and we discovered him when we were there the other day. Our ANP said he just showed up or got dropped off or something. That part kinda got lost in translation. Anyway, Shadow is cool to just watch play in his little tree they keep him tied to. He drinks out of water bottles and like I said he eats all kinds of stuff. The police mostly feed him fruit so as not to make him sick. They told us that he is about 1 or 1 1/2 years old, and will probably double in size. I hope that they keep him. It will be fun to watch him grow up and try to tame him down a little bit. Maybe I can talk to some of my SF friends and get them to vaccinate him. That would be pretty cool, but we are not allowed pets or mascots on our camp, so I will try to convince the ANP to keep him at the station for us. Things are good here other then that. We are supposed to be getting in like 1400 pounds of mail today. That is really exciting because it has been a while since we got any. Only about one more month of heat left, so that is a good thing. Some days it is not to bad, but then there are days where the heat just sucks the energy right out of you. And then throw some humidity on top of that and it is just crappy in all of our gear. But we stay hydrated and get a little break in the AC when we can, so we make do. I will keep you all posted on Shadow, if he is still at the station. Thanks for all the support and packages. My soldiers and I greatly appreciate it. More to come from the SWA (south west Asia). SSG Miller