Brian,
Thanks for serving our country, hopefully it well be worth it inspite of all the crap going on in congress.

But yes! pretty much any country that ends in a Stan has the good walnut, a wood buyer that I know is over there right now. The Russians would come into the surrounding countries over there and "employ, like they had options" the local stock maker's to build rifleblanks for there military rifles and such.

Is your father by chance Skip ?