This is a compilation of various entries I made while serving in Iraq. The original blogs no longer exist. Luckily I saved many of the posts to my hard drive, so they aren't lost forever. Re-posting them here is part back-up and part tribute to my time in service. Most of the writing I did while serving in Iraq, however, was in a good-old-fashioned journal, so many of my more interesting reflections and experiences will remain privately stowed away in a box of memorabilia for now.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
The Neighborhood
Location:
Babil Governorate, Iraq
If you squint your eyes ...
If you squint your eyes, and use your imagination, kind of looks like grafiti in ancient Rome, sort of, a little bit maybe.
Location:
Babil Governorate, Iraq
Life in the Tents
Location:
Babil Governorate, Iraq
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Thank God for PT Belts ...
Don't know how I survived my whole life without my reflective safety device ....
Meet Mr. Winkles ...
Meet Mr. Winkles, a small token of the love between Sgt. S and her sweetheart. Mr. Winkles almost met an untimely demise in Kuwait when Sgt. S threatened to slit poor Mr. Winkles' throat and toss his stuffing in front of her sweetheart's tent. Luckily, sweetheart realized the error of his ways and repented, saving poor Mr. Winkles from his untimely demise!
Location:
Kuwait
Monday, May 14, 2007
Live, from Kuwait: May 14, 2007
Well, I'm here, and it's hotter than hell. No, seriously, I don't think hell could possibly be this hot. I don't understand how humans have evolved to handle this kind of heat, but everybody promises me I will get used to it in time. Other than that, not much to report. I have seen lots of camels, which is pretty cool. Did you know they have white camels? Apparently, they're the real money makers. The Bedouins send them out into the road first, hoping they'll get hit by U.S. troops, so they can get reimbursed for seven generations of camels. (stay tuned--pictures of platoon sergeant trying to ride angry camel soon to follow).
Well, that's about it so far. Not much more to report. Did I mention it's hot here? Oh yeh--and ugly. Every desert I end up in gets uglier and uglier. I'll post pictures so you can see that I'm not exagerating. You'll know them when you see them. They'll be the pictures of absolutely nothing. It'll be hard to figure out exactly where the horizon is because the air will be almost as brown as the sand. In fact, they'll kind of look like pictures of the smog over L.A. sometime in the 1980's, except there will be no L.A. Just smog. And sand.
Location:
Kuwait
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