Been on a tour of the entire site. Huge!!! There's a fuel depot, all kinds of construction equipment, garages, stacks of disused containers, and heaven knows what...Can't believe how many people are actually out here and there’s way more facilities than I’d expected including a number of restaurants, cafes, shops etc. including Burger King & Subway (of sorts), not to mention 'the Oasis" which has at it's centre-point an electronic rodeo bull...obvious evening entertainment for our American cousins. Dunno what I expected, but it wasn't this!!

Now met most of the management team and a number of the ExPat team leaders etc. so have a good overview of the set up and operations out here, as well as the associated issues. It's not too bad providing you don't think about things too much. I was shown the full report and pics from last weeks fatality earlier. Looked but not too carefully as I'd like to get some zzzz tonight. One of our teams had been out on a mission in the area in which the incident took place so naturally everyone was on tenterhooks about whether things would run smoothly. We were all glued to the vehicle tracking system and as a result we all carried on working until we knew they were back on base by which time the 'cookhouse' was closed. By that point we were all ravenous so went to the American side of the base for pizza. Bizarre place with US troops coming in in their uniform complete with M4s slung nonchalantly across their shoulders...as you do....!