**51% of us, that is.
I was deployed to the base in Uzbekistan 2003-04. Not a bad place; regular duty hours, low threat level, and beautiful English-speaking Uzbek women who worked for KBR.
At the time I thought this was the beginning of a U.S. presence in Central Asia which would benefit all concerned. Then our wonderful State Department took the 2005 Andijon incident and rubbed it in Karimov’s face, so he told us to clear out.
All the ‘Stan’s are falling in line with this Russian-Chinese Co-Prosperity Sphere or whatever they call it, so Central Asia will once again recede into the same remoteness it’s been in since the 1860’s. Too bad, really.