Author Archives: Joseph Morton

KABUL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Afghanistan — Going home.

It’s been an amazing two months, but it’s time to get back.

Time to see friends and family again. Time to resume our normal lives.

We’ve met many wonderful people on this trip …

KABUL, Afghanistan — We’re in the final stretch of the trip now — just a few days left before we head home.

Today we spent some time doing the civilian tourist thing around Kabul. That included a trip to the …

CAMP PHOENIX, Afghanistan — So we’re back to where our trip began.

We’ve traded Camp Leatherneck for Camp Phoenix, where most of the Nebraska Army National Guard’s 1-134th Cavalry Squadron is based.

We’ll be wrapping up a few things here …

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — Even on deployment here, college football passions run high.

First Lt. Shea McCarty, 25, from Bettendorf, Iowa, is in charge of the vault at the disbursing office at Camp Leatherneck. That’s where the Marines go to …

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — So far, we’ve spent most of our time in Afghanistan with National Guard units in the eastern part of the country.

The next few days will be a little different. We’ve traveled southwest to Camp …

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — It’s easy to get complacent here when everything is quiet.

For the past five weeks, Alyssa and I have been tagging along on missions with Iowa and Nebraska soldiers without seeing much in the way …

BAGRAM AIR FIELD — Today we hopped aboard a quick mission up to Charikar with Iowa National Guard soldiers from Bravo Troop of the 1-113th Cavalry Squadron.

The capital of Parwan province, Charikar is only a half hour or …

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Strolled around the base a bit on our last night at Forward Operating Base Wright with the Iowa National Guard’s 734th Agribusiness Development Team.

The coffee shop guys in the “nursing home” barracks were …