Preparing to leave for Afghanistan.

It took us two days to get there. We flew from Baghdad to Qatar, on the Persian Gulf, on June 2nd. We stayed in Qatar overnight and flew to Kabul, the Afghan capital, the next morning. The top two pictures are sunset in Baghdad the night before we departed. We basically stayed up all night--our "show time" for the flight was 0120 in the morning! The last shot is the flight line in Qatar when we arrived there. We left Qatar about 0745 on the 3rd.