You met people in the strangest places

We've known Merrily for over 10 years, haven't seen her in ages, but knew she was in country. Contacted her when I got on the ground and arranged to do some training for her team from the embassy. They arrived the same day as the fire, but we conducted training and their team had a great time. It was good to see her after all these years. Odd how you meet people along the way. On my team is someone I went to Special Forces Qualification course back in 1992, only saw him once in the interim. We were both Sergeants at the time, now he is our legal adviser. Another guy joined the unit a year ago, but we were in the same company in Ohio and deployed to Kuwait back in 2002. Some of the others on the team I have worked with for 5+ years. Makes it nice, we have a lot of shared pain, suffering, and misery.