Oct 14 2008
Ok so again I am behind, what do ya do? So some interesting things have happened since I last wrote, the big issue on the table right now is the European Union taking over the Un Mission, yet the EU is not prepared finically, logistically, or equipped with the man power. There was a meeting at the CPI House and they discussed the EU package, and announced the 6th call for contributions, now the moneys not bad, less than what we are making now but the over all package is not favorable for Americans with family, the work schedule will be a Monday –Friday at 2pwith weekends off, cool right, no, you will earn leave at a rate of 1 ½ days a month, 1.5 X12 18 days off. Now for a single person that’s great but the married folks aren’t real interested in this. Now that doesn’t mean you cant take time off with out pay and go home but you will be strongly urged not to do this because if you are off the company is not maven money and above all, isn’t that what they are in business for. So the head of the CPI house Director of Kosovo operations, called and asked why I had not submitted my EU app. I explained to him prior to the package coming out I was interested, but after seeing the package and the lack of time to go and see the family, I would not be submitting one. He respected that and understood, I did say however that if the UN mission carried on I would stay and fulfill my obligation, though I really miss my comfy little patrol car.
Let us see, we had Escort training and let me tell you, Ii did not know you could thrash a Toyota 4-runner like the one we did. It is a very stable vehicle in a slide or J-turn. Its really amazing what you can do in 4-wheel drive backwards, man that was fun. We also had a shooting day; we went out to the range and shot a 25m 15 m 10m 7 m and 5m course. I shot well from the first three all in the black, Thank you to my shooting instructors at Tomball PD, Cliff, and Jeff. But on the reaction shooting at 7 and 5 meters I threw one and pushed 1 on the first double action shots. Oh well, it was fun and I was glad to know I could center mass shoot with this dang Beretta. Every time I look at it I think about ole Stach back at the PD. I am not real found of the Beretta but its what I have and what I have to shoot so I might as well be good with it. After shooting the course, we did a escort scenario and we had to bail out, take cover and engage two targets. I was on the drivers side, so I bailed out rounded the back of the vehicle hit the ground barricading myself, well as much as I could lying on the ground and engaging my two targets. Ten rounds and the whole scenario last about 10-15 seconds but its really a rush because it happens so fast and its basically reaction shooting. For people that doont shoot reaction shooting is point and shoot, not taking time to aim. I went10 for 10 so I was pleased, Now there were some folks from all over the world and I will say that the French and the Turks were the best shooters aside from the Americans of course! Hehe.
Some of these folks were limp wristed and stove piping every other round, others have been issued these weapons and never fired them. Others are issued these weapons and are not allowed to carry them loaded. Scary! There was one Turk with a six shot 9mm revolver and, well, umm, never mind, Scary!
After we finished the course they broke out the bad boy, YES APPLAUSE! THE MP-5. ahhhhh, now I have been waiting since we arrived to play with this fine piece of machinery. I was impressed with this weapon and fell in love with it. It was so smooth and accurate. When we shot the burst and the full auto it rose a little at first but no so much that you couldn’t control it..
Lets see what else has been going on, I was speaking to the Bulgarian nightmare about some things and his English is not so good so he misunderstood 90% of the conversation the runs to the Director Of KP FMU and starts telling him what I told him and the director exploded and called me a liar and told tim he wished for a meeting with my bosses and he would call me a liar to my face! Ok Pal, Big mistake, If you are gonna call me a liar you damn sure better be ready to back it up. So his wish for a meeting was granted. And at 3pm on the 13th of October 2008 I Mark D. Hannsz exercised diplomacy and patients. I walked into this meeting and Warren my big boss, said you look mad, I said your damn right I am. He said I know I heard. I told warren if this guy raises his voice at me or accuses me of being a liar we were gonna have a big issue. Warren said hell if he yells at me I’ll punch him in the face. So anyway the meeting starts and warren opens, he goes through the formal BS involved and then he asked if anybody had anything, I jumped right in, lets talk about gates, I don’t receive any of the request and you don’t let me know anything so how m I supposed to do my job if you want do yours. Now this guy is just dumb founded because I just called him on the carpet in front of his bosses. So I continued firing questions and he kept backing into the corner. I started to enjoy it. So I backed down until the big question. I started like this, I understand there was a conversation earlier today that involved mention of my name and I have been accused of lying, I folded my hands on the table, leaned in chest resting on my folded hands, staring him right in the eye, causing him to lean back a little and I said I would like to explain something to you. Now mind you there is a translator and she too was uneasy but to her it was like OMG what is this guy going to make me sy to this high ranking KPS officer? I said Zenol I do not know you and I do not have any reason to lie to you, for you about you or anything else. I take my honesty very seriously and I am not found of people accusing me of being a liar. Now if you would like to be as bold to call me out as I have you I am here and waiting. If not, let it be known to anyone in this room that if you think I have told you a lie, I would be happy to discuss these issues right here right now. Now from what I understand there was a little bit of lost in translation on the part of Tim and when he was made aware of his mistake he took no action to correct that, now I can not speak for him and his lack of action to correct this opinion of me you have formed but I assure you I did not lie to you. When the translator finished, there was silence in the room and it was like a tennis match. Eyes left to right. No one in the room spoke and they were extremely shocked I had called him on the carpet. Finally Zenol responded and said that is not what I said and I don’t think you lied, that’s when the meeting shifted to Tim, now Tim was accused of using a KPS worker to do duties at his accommodation on the KP dime. Now this is getting interesting and there was all kinds of craw fishing going on. Man I have never seen Warrens head whip around so fast. And Tim just sat there smug look on his face and tried to explain it but I believe it was falling on deaf ears. Anyway, I walked out of there quite satisfied with the impact of what I said. I was also impressed with my diplomacy, tactical approach and demeanor during this time, I never lost my cool and Tim stepped on himself!
So I haven’t spoke much about my friend Scottish friend and his Italian roomy Fabreeshio. Andy and Fab live about 3 minutes walk from my flat and Andy is a World renowned Detective from Scotland yard. As a matter of fact Andy could be making 5k a week lecturing about financial crimes, terrorist and corruption. Andy is an amazingly talented person and last night we got into a discussion about the differences of who you are and what you do. I said to him I admire you and your talents and I like hanging out with you because I learn so much, he then began the whole that’s not who I am, that’s what I do. But in the end we had a beer and said cheers, I don’t care what he said, he is a hell of a nice guy and an amazing person. He is doing a lecture on Wednesday and I am going to go. I would Love to hook him up with the PD back home and bring him to TX to teach us what he knows. I think someone like Brandon would benefit from this greatly. Did I mention he is a damn good pool player too!
So I am in the backseat of the truck headed to gate 1 and I am listening to my itunes on the puter and typing this. All I can think about is how I need to update this cause of my few faithful followers. Speaking of, I need to call Jason and check on his son. I heard Bitzys Benefit was a huge success, I have been trying to call him and see how he is but I keep getting his voice mail. I will continue to try. I also need to try and email Rob. Anybody that has never met him I would encourage yall to meet him. The California kid is a trp. He is such a neat guy and he really cares about his people. He has been very nice and carrying about anything my wife would need while I am gone. You know he is not the only one that has offered. I am truly Blesses By the hand of God to have the friends and Family I have. You guys are everything to me. Thank yall for being there for my family when needed. It’s the little things that mean so much. Like steve going over and fixing the ice maker. That is a huge favor when you are 6000 miles away from your true obligation. If I have learned anything with this adventure is that aquatints will say anything to make you smile, and friends will do anything. You know Marcus, we have been friends for 30 + years and he isn’t talking to me because he is mad about something that has nothing to do with me. You know I have done so much for him over the years and he wants to act like a little kid about this and I am pretty much washing my hands of it. But mark my words, when he is ready or in need he will show back up or call and all will be nice. Whatever. I have all I need in my Wife and kids. That is what matters to me! Ok, we are almost there and I am gonna close for now, smoke I am trying to get ya updated dear. Since I got my skype its hard to type when I am wanting to talk on the phone with Punk! Love you guys
Mark
Ok so again I am behind, what do ya do? So some interesting things have happened since I last wrote, the big issue on the table right now is the European Union taking over the Un Mission, yet the EU is not prepared finically, logistically, or equipped with the man power. There was a meeting at the CPI House and they discussed the EU package, and announced the 6th call for contributions, now the moneys not bad, less than what we are making now but the over all package is not favorable for Americans with family, the work schedule will be a Monday –Friday at 2pwith weekends off, cool right, no, you will earn leave at a rate of 1 ½ days a month, 1.5 X12 18 days off. Now for a single person that’s great but the married folks aren’t real interested in this. Now that doesn’t mean you cant take time off with out pay and go home but you will be strongly urged not to do this because if you are off the company is not maven money and above all, isn’t that what they are in business for. So the head of the CPI house Director of Kosovo operations, called and asked why I had not submitted my EU app. I explained to him prior to the package coming out I was interested, but after seeing the package and the lack of time to go and see the family, I would not be submitting one. He respected that and understood, I did say however that if the UN mission carried on I would stay and fulfill my obligation, though I really miss my comfy little patrol car.
Let us see, we had Escort training and let me tell you, Ii did not know you could thrash a Toyota 4-runner like the one we did. It is a very stable vehicle in a slide or J-turn. Its really amazing what you can do in 4-wheel drive backwards, man that was fun. We also had a shooting day; we went out to the range and shot a 25m 15 m 10m 7 m and 5m course. I shot well from the first three all in the black, Thank you to my shooting instructors at Tomball PD, Cliff, and Jeff. But on the reaction shooting at 7 and 5 meters I threw one and pushed 1 on the first double action shots. Oh well, it was fun and I was glad to know I could center mass shoot with this dang Beretta. Every time I look at it I think about ole Stach back at the PD. I am not real found of the Beretta but its what I have and what I have to shoot so I might as well be good with it. After shooting the course, we did a escort scenario and we had to bail out, take cover and engage two targets. I was on the drivers side, so I bailed out rounded the back of the vehicle hit the ground barricading myself, well as much as I could lying on the ground and engaging my two targets. Ten rounds and the whole scenario last about 10-15 seconds but its really a rush because it happens so fast and its basically reaction shooting. For people that doont shoot reaction shooting is point and shoot, not taking time to aim. I went10 for 10 so I was pleased, Now there were some folks from all over the world and I will say that the French and the Turks were the best shooters aside from the Americans of course! Hehe.
Some of these folks were limp wristed and stove piping every other round, others have been issued these weapons and never fired them. Others are issued these weapons and are not allowed to carry them loaded. Scary! There was one Turk with a six shot 9mm revolver and, well, umm, never mind, Scary!
After we finished the course they broke out the bad boy, YES APPLAUSE! THE MP-5. ahhhhh, now I have been waiting since we arrived to play with this fine piece of machinery. I was impressed with this weapon and fell in love with it. It was so smooth and accurate. When we shot the burst and the full auto it rose a little at first but no so much that you couldn’t control it..
Lets see what else has been going on, I was speaking to the Bulgarian nightmare about some things and his English is not so good so he misunderstood 90% of the conversation the runs to the Director Of KP FMU and starts telling him what I told him and the director exploded and called me a liar and told tim he wished for a meeting with my bosses and he would call me a liar to my face! Ok Pal, Big mistake, If you are gonna call me a liar you damn sure better be ready to back it up. So his wish for a meeting was granted. And at 3pm on the 13th of October 2008 I Mark D. Hannsz exercised diplomacy and patients. I walked into this meeting and Warren my big boss, said you look mad, I said your damn right I am. He said I know I heard. I told warren if this guy raises his voice at me or accuses me of being a liar we were gonna have a big issue. Warren said hell if he yells at me I’ll punch him in the face. So anyway the meeting starts and warren opens, he goes through the formal BS involved and then he asked if anybody had anything, I jumped right in, lets talk about gates, I don’t receive any of the request and you don’t let me know anything so how m I supposed to do my job if you want do yours. Now this guy is just dumb founded because I just called him on the carpet in front of his bosses. So I continued firing questions and he kept backing into the corner. I started to enjoy it. So I backed down until the big question. I started like this, I understand there was a conversation earlier today that involved mention of my name and I have been accused of lying, I folded my hands on the table, leaned in chest resting on my folded hands, staring him right in the eye, causing him to lean back a little and I said I would like to explain something to you. Now mind you there is a translator and she too was uneasy but to her it was like OMG what is this guy going to make me sy to this high ranking KPS officer? I said Zenol I do not know you and I do not have any reason to lie to you, for you about you or anything else. I take my honesty very seriously and I am not found of people accusing me of being a liar. Now if you would like to be as bold to call me out as I have you I am here and waiting. If not, let it be known to anyone in this room that if you think I have told you a lie, I would be happy to discuss these issues right here right now. Now from what I understand there was a little bit of lost in translation on the part of Tim and when he was made aware of his mistake he took no action to correct that, now I can not speak for him and his lack of action to correct this opinion of me you have formed but I assure you I did not lie to you. When the translator finished, there was silence in the room and it was like a tennis match. Eyes left to right. No one in the room spoke and they were extremely shocked I had called him on the carpet. Finally Zenol responded and said that is not what I said and I don’t think you lied, that’s when the meeting shifted to Tim, now Tim was accused of using a KPS worker to do duties at his accommodation on the KP dime. Now this is getting interesting and there was all kinds of craw fishing going on. Man I have never seen Warrens head whip around so fast. And Tim just sat there smug look on his face and tried to explain it but I believe it was falling on deaf ears. Anyway, I walked out of there quite satisfied with the impact of what I said. I was also impressed with my diplomacy, tactical approach and demeanor during this time, I never lost my cool and Tim stepped on himself!
So I haven’t spoke much about my friend Scottish friend and his Italian roomy Fabreeshio. Andy and Fab live about 3 minutes walk from my flat and Andy is a World renowned Detective from Scotland yard. As a matter of fact Andy could be making 5k a week lecturing about financial crimes, terrorist and corruption. Andy is an amazingly talented person and last night we got into a discussion about the differences of who you are and what you do. I said to him I admire you and your talents and I like hanging out with you because I learn so much, he then began the whole that’s not who I am, that’s what I do. But in the end we had a beer and said cheers, I don’t care what he said, he is a hell of a nice guy and an amazing person. He is doing a lecture on Wednesday and I am going to go. I would Love to hook him up with the PD back home and bring him to TX to teach us what he knows. I think someone like Brandon would benefit from this greatly. Did I mention he is a damn good pool player too!
So I am in the backseat of the truck headed to gate 1 and I am listening to my itunes on the puter and typing this. All I can think about is how I need to update this cause of my few faithful followers. Speaking of, I need to call Jason and check on his son. I heard Bitzys Benefit was a huge success, I have been trying to call him and see how he is but I keep getting his voice mail. I will continue to try. I also need to try and email Rob. Anybody that has never met him I would encourage yall to meet him. The California kid is a trp. He is such a neat guy and he really cares about his people. He has been very nice and carrying about anything my wife would need while I am gone. You know he is not the only one that has offered. I am truly Blesses By the hand of God to have the friends and Family I have. You guys are everything to me. Thank yall for being there for my family when needed. It’s the little things that mean so much. Like steve going over and fixing the ice maker. That is a huge favor when you are 6000 miles away from your true obligation. If I have learned anything with this adventure is that aquatints will say anything to make you smile, and friends will do anything. You know Marcus, we have been friends for 30 + years and he isn’t talking to me because he is mad about something that has nothing to do with me. You know I have done so much for him over the years and he wants to act like a little kid about this and I am pretty much washing my hands of it. But mark my words, when he is ready or in need he will show back up or call and all will be nice. Whatever. I have all I need in my Wife and kids. That is what matters to me! Ok, we are almost there and I am gonna close for now, smoke I am trying to get ya updated dear. Since I got my skype its hard to type when I am wanting to talk on the phone with Punk! Love you guys
Mark
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