Indian Air Force

We have been out here in Kharagpur for a long time now. The base is sitting in West Bengal with the postcode 721145. It is mostly just normal days of doing work and making sure everything is running like it should. Sometimes it gets a bit dusty around here, but that is just how it is in this part of India. People come and go, some staying for a few years and others just passing through for their training. We handle the daily tasks that keep the planes and the gear ready to go. It is not always exciting like you might see on the news. There is a lot of paperwork and routine maintenance that takes up most of our time. The weather gets pretty hot in the summer months, so we drink a lot of tea and try to stay out of the sun when we can. Mostly, we are just a group of people doing our jobs and living on the station. You get used to the noise of the engines after a while. It just becomes part of the background. Everyone here knows each other pretty well because we live and work in the same spot. It is a quiet enough area outside the gates. We have got our own little community going on inside. If you ever find yourself near Kharagpur, you might see the gates. There is not much more to say really. We just keep at it day after day.