Night Vision is so much fun to play with while on guard duty. You are barely awake at times and then you remember the pouch hanging just a couple feet away. Inside is a toy to provide endless fun for at least the next few hours. Look at barracks, friends, reletives, and mostly just the enemy lurking only a few feet away!!
This is a hotel complex that should have been done years ago. Way to go Mr Hyatt!! Nice view of the bay though!!
The CPU has been apart of the MFO since it's inception. These are some of the most professional sailors in the world. They have a small docking area in a harbor near our main base and they patrol the Red Sea to observe and report any infractions of the Treaty of Peace. As part of their mission, they provide expert dive teams and maritime safety to the soldiers here on this mission. Part of our training includes briefing on missions and tours of the facilities and boats that they crew. We may also get to accompany them on live missions. They also provide Zodiac boats and crews for beach landings and other missions. These guys are also pretty fun to share a drink with, and can be found in town partying a bit with the other Europeans that vacation here in Naama Bay. Ciao!!
From the roof-top of the Camel Bar in Naama Bay, Egypt, you can see the lights of the bizzarre. Our platoon has duties that keep it on Camp for a time, and we are able to spend our free time out of the confines of the chicken wire. There is always a taxi around when you need a little R&R in town. There is a Hard Rock Cafe, a TGI-Fridays, KFC, Baskin Robbins, and Pizza Hut. If you are craving a Big Mac, there is a McD's right nearby too. Most of the fast food can also be delivered to camp pretty quickly. The Camel Bar is a great little club that caters to the British Ex-Pat Community. The roof deck has a bar and picnic tables and among the items to eat and drink, the nachos reign supreme. You can also order a bit of the SHISHA to smoke if you like flavored tobacco, and the help brings you a 2-3 foot tall water pipe to smoke it with. Very cool if you like that sort of thing. I do not partake, but the fruit tobacco has a very nice odor that wafts around the room. There are also couches and coffee tables to enjoy a beverage and a smoke for a more relaxed time. Many of the local Europeans on HOLIDAY hang out here, and the single soldiers always have someone to chat with that is a lot more pleasing to the eye than the mongrels in their platoon back on base. PS. Finally got the computer running to peak performance and I will be posting more regularly from now one...... (Photo taken with no flash and timer to limit movement during nighttime exposure. Tricky huh?)
Finally!!! As I have had to rebuild my email database and by computer had a problem from the fabulous internet service we have here, I can finally add to my blog and let you know where I have been. As TODAY is a historic day of significance to me, I will tell you that I have been playing golf here in the land of camels!! We got a couple days of a break here. In the sweltering heat and oppressive sun we decided to play a few holes of golf. The Jolie Ville Country Club is part of the Maritim Resort here in Sharm El Sheik. They have an 18-hole course that was actually a site for a Senior PGA Tour event in 2004. Obviously this is the winter, and the course is under various states of repair, but the $35 (US) greens fees covered the golf, clubs and cart for unlimited play. We hit the course, played 18 holes, went to the Hard Rock for cheeseburgers and a cold beer, and back to the course for another 9-holes. NO EXTRA CHARGE!! We had such a great time that I went out and did another 18-holes the next day. I am a gluten for punishment. I had a great chip to 2-inches from one cup, a couple birdies, and some monster drives on the wide open fairways. Too see the resort and course, just google the Jolie Ville Golf Club in Egypt......It should pop right up. Other interesting things going on around here...hmmmm. Oh yeah, Special Day Today for me!! I enlisted in the US ARMY RESERVES exactly 20 years ago today at 2:34 pm. WOW!! 20 Years of this ______!! There might be kids reading this!! Anyway, I am just choked up inside. I would like to thank the academy, my agent, my mom, and especially thanks to my fathers? Fathers you say? Yes, my dad, Harvey Scribner III (Senior)(He is going to love that one!) told me that drinking my life away at Shippensburg U was not smart and he would not subsidize it. I thought drinking was a great idea, so I joined. It took my other father, with a phone call at the actual moment of decision, to make sure I was signing for an honorable reason. Bill Landherr spent over 30 years in service to this nation in the NAVY , and talking to him at the moment of truth put a true and honorable spirit in me as I signed and was sworn in. Who could have possibly predicted that 20 years later I would be on a second deployment with a family taking the brunt of the sacrifice gracefully and with pride. I thank my wife the most for sticking by me through two deployments and a million drill weekend-frantic running around looking for my hat and why didn't I get a haircut on Thursday after work moments!! I LOVE YOU HONEY!! You are really the Trooper in our family!! See you soon , I HOPE!! 
Well here it is. Downtown Naama Bay. This is the central square to the shopping district. Behind us in this picture is the Hard Rock Cafe, The TGI-Fridays, KFC, Baskin Robbins, Taco Bell, and the Mall. The mall has lots of stores to buy clothes and shoes, and some artists, papyrus, tobacco, and other shops. There are also a lot of little markets for snacks and sodas, and the best nachos around at the Camel Bar.
