Once a year he gets three weeks back in the States. He earns it by working 12 hours a day, seven days a week. Americans must follow certain rules and bars are mostly off-limits. There s not much of a night life. Life in Kosovo is difficult.
Generators keep U.S. facilities supplied with power.
And sometimes hostilities still erupt. Local reaction to the troops is positive, Gilbert says. The locals have become pretty familiar with the troops. Gilbert and the other Americans in Kosovo work mostly with ethnic Albanians. They are too scared to come to work.