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Goode  May 05, 2011 | Specialist Tobey White  Recently I had the
opportunity to travel to Forward Operating Base Goode near
Gardez City in Paktya Province. Based on feedback I received on
my post about living conditions on FOB Salerno, I decided to
share a few of my observations of the base.  Forward Operating
Base Goode is divided into two sections, and I've stayed in
both. The first time I visited Goode I stayed in the base of a
tower in what's called a Kualt. It literally looks like a
medieval mud castle. An old Afghan cemetery was located right
outside it's walls. I kind of felt like I was in the middle
ages. On that side of the FOB they generally have wooden
buildings and they've placed some of the housing for Soldiers in
the inner walls of the Kualt. They have pretty descent bathrooms
and showers. The internet is pretty much the same as on
Salerno.    I've never seen a base with these kind of
structures. There are two Kualt's on the base, one w