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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

"A Rose by any other name," unless you work for Dyncorp...

We are on the LOGCAP IV project. LOGCAP III is in Iraq. Dyncorp has other projects with other acronyms but we are LOGCAP IV. Says so right there on my return address. Now, I thought that if you worked for Dyncorp, you worked for Dyncorp and that we can take care of you. Silly me.
The phone rang last night before I got off, it was the Role 3 wanting us to pick up the patient that was medevaced to them. This is interesting because we track anybody that is going anywhere for any reason, medically. And we didn't know anything about this guy. The day before we kept waiting for a guy who was being sent to our clinic for evaluation of possible appendicitis. He kept bouncing around the country and was hard to track. We finally got word that he was here at KAF, but nobody could find him. Turns out that he had snuck out of the country and was in Dubai on his way home! How do you even do that? I takes two days of paper signing to leave on R and R and this dude just waltzes out of the country. It's all about who you know.And what country you're from. And what connections you have.  The guy in the Role 3 was connected to the Army who took care of him, but when the Navy was done with  him they saw his Dyncorp ID and called us. I called Dyncorp and they said "WTF? We no nothing about this guy." So after multiple phone calls we found out that he was in a "special" branch of Dyncorp and that they would be calling "Secret Squirrel" branch who would be along shortly. So I stayed in the clinic, eating popcorn and gave him a paper to read while I read my own copy and drank Gatorade. Popcorn and Gatorade, breakfast of champions. Oh, and the guy the with hand burns that was another medevac, that we lost and nobody knew where he was, but he was here, sitting in the Dyncorp human resources office, who showed up at the clinic at closing time, got tired of waiting for the Safety Rep. who should of talked to him at HQ, so he left. And the Safety person, finally showed up 30 minutes later, was pissed and gave me attitude and I didn't care.
 Finally, Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole showed up for my other guy and snatched him up, along with some water for the trip home to their secret hideout.
So, I got off an hour late. No worries, just another day at KAF.
Today we find out if I'm a male escort or not. Wonder what adventure that will bring? Probably nothing...

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