Honoring American Soldiers: A Woodworking Shop in Afghanistan Â

Dear Highland Woodworking, It's not beautiful, fancy, or by any means a work of art, but this little old woodshop means so much to a great bunch of soldiers who come here to take their minds off the fact that we're in Afghanistan. This is our home away from home. The shop is located on Kandahar Airfield in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. Downtime is what makes it so hard being here, and what better way to take your mind off being away from your family than doing something you really enjoy doing. I am very grateful being a part of this wonderful place and helping set it up and keeping it up. We have spent countless hours here building extra shelves, bunk beds, and many other items to make life easier here for soldiers. An Army soldier and woodworker, Roscoe (Randy) Harris CLICK HERE to respond to the guys at the Kandahar Airfield woodshop via the Highland blog: We plan to feature a longer article about the Kandahar woodshop in an upcoming issue of Wood News Some work benches and hand tools Today's project finished, after 6 hours of feeling like I was back at home Kinda messy since today is Saturday and the shop has been busy Screws, nails, and other miscellaneous stuff

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker

This is great guys, I knew Highland Woodworking was a class act!

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker

What a great thing to offer the troops. Such a special treat in such an environment so far away from home and detached from loved ones. A class act wouldn't describe what this truly amounts too. Thank you so much for sharing this.

 

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Wayne Mahler
God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.