Archive for August 27th, 2007

I managed to get my watch fixed.  Can you believe that our PX actually had the right watch battery in stock?  Such an obscure item, and it was actually on the shelves, unlike such things as USB Sticks or socks.  Had to pay with my new fangled Eagle Cash card since finance won’t actually give you any cash anymore. 

The idea of the Eagle Cash card sounds good on paper.  A secured card you load with funds from your bank account.  You can use it like a debit card throughout Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, etc.  It keeps you from loosing your cash, and supposedly helps keep Joes from being separated from their hard earned cash.  Its also supposed to lighten the load on finance offices, banks, etc and reduce the amount of US currency over here.  When you re-deploy, you just dump the money back in your account.  No transaction fees or anything.