Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

In the six months that I've been here, a lot has changed.

The air quality got better and the food quality got worse.
They finished construction on the front gate and closed the back gate (used to spend a lot of time at that back gate).
My team went from four guys who were all younger than me to three guys who are older (but still lower-ranking) than me.
I wore the Air Force ABS-G uniform when I first got here. Then I changed to the Army style OCP's.
The current Chaplain is the third one in the past 6 months.

At first, I spent a lot of time escorting visitors around late at night. Now we don't do that as often - and when we do, it's usually a lunch event.
At first, the US side of the JVB was downstairs and we had limited interaction with them. Now they're upstairs with us and we've become quite close.
At first, a German General and an Italian General both had offices on my floor. They've both moved on and not been replaced.
At first, there was only one female officer in the office - a Colonel. Now we've got 5 ladies in the office - mostly Air Force Captains, as it turns out.
Early on, I hardly ever missed a day at the gym, and my workouts were fairly varied. Now I'm much more likely to skip a day, and most of the time I just go for a run - pretty much because I found myself doing what I want to do.

When I got here, I remember thinking that when I left Afghanistan, things would be pretty much the same as when I got here. In a lot of ways, that's true. But it turns out, lots of things did manage to change.