Happy Thanksgiving everyone ( Read more... )

About a week ago, one of the guys..."The Old Man"....was shot and killed working outside the wire. I plead that we end this thing. People will argue with me about this until the end of time. My friends may have different opinions than I. This is no longer about politics but staying alive. What if the article below is me? I still have 8 months to ( Read more... )

This is an actual radio transmission from yesterday. I changed names location and what not to protect the innocent ( Read more... )

We lost a guy in the battalion today. He will be missed by his brothers in arms.
"Do not mourn for the soldier who has fallen;
Instead, thank God that such men ever lived."
--Written on the inside of North Bunker on 611

*I'm sure someone said it first, but I have no idea who

Due To OPSEC I had to change this entry. Damn the gov can find my blog in a few days but can't seem to find Bin Laden in years....you know I'm a real threat to our way of life....ok so I left the joke up but everything else is history....HAPPY UNCLE SAM?!?!? ya rat bastard ( Read more... )

Lately I've been doing a lot of self searching trying to figure out all that has changed...trying to absorb it all. I guess this song just sums it up which is why i'm posting the actual words instead of telling you to listen to it ( Read more... )

Written on the inside of the bathroom stall....

"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I cannnot accept,
and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill today because they pissed me off."
--The Bathroom Prophet

Sorry I thought that was LJ material.

Ok, for the last several days or nights more acurately, I've had the insomnia fairy strike. I've tried everything minus chemically induced sleep and getting drunk (for the obvious reasons) so I'll try live journaling until I get sleepy. Ok so today I had a thought, if a warm front collides with a cold front, shouldn't there be rain? Instead it ( Read more... )

I think the missions have finally started taking a toll. I go to bed tired and sick, and wake up tired and sick. In the last few weeks I've had a few scares....nothing that directly affected me...but the insurgents are starting trouble and I'm getting homesick. There are people in my life I just can't do without, and 10 months I've had to. I ( Read more... )

Mar Haba Ladies and Gents ( Read more... )