Bagram water scare

At about 1730 a message was broad-casted over the loud speaker that our water was contaminated. The dining facilities were quickly closed, we were told not to use the shower water, wash our hands with the water, and use only the bottled water, until further notice. I noticed that a lot of soldiers were getting cases of water, so I got mine too, 4 cases in all. Combat water bottle showers require a lot of bottles.At the Bhut we started questioning where we would eat, Popeye's Chicken sounds good, someone else mentioned Burger King -- while en-route there we ran into SGT Hazelwood. He reported that where we were headed everything was already shut down by order of the base Force Protection. I thought that I'd just head over to the PX and pick up a few snacks -- seems like the rest of the base had the same thoughts. The shelves, not completely stocked all the time, were now being depleted of the edible products that remained. Just like in the movies, I got out with 2 boxes of "Chicken on a Basket Crackers, and 2 cans of Kraft Easy Cheese," and I'm only slightly partial to the stuff. I'll bet that everything is pretty well gone by now, and there wasn't that much to start with. I'm sure glad that my sweetie sent some goodies.Powell, Allen and myself went to Supply and picked up our rations of MREs for the guys in the Bhut. I actually grabbed 2 for myself, my alloted amount. At 1900 they gave the all clear. But I will wait 24 hours, not taking any chances. The MREs will be stored until rally needed, like when there is nothing left to eat:)