It seems the rainy season is coming to an end.  It's starting to get into the mid 80s during the day now.   I'll probably pack up my jacket and sweatshirts sometime next week and get them ready to send home.  April 1st is the day where I have to start mailing out my stuff.  Wow, that's only 23 days away.  Time is sneaking up on me.

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I had been looking forward to sitting on the wooden bench outside my trailer and reading after getting back from lunch. I'm finishing American Soldier, which I started during my first week at Abu Ghraib (blame it on an inconsistent schedule and a short attention span). The book is on loan to me from Jeff Squire, one of my friends from Hereford ( Read more... )

Rumor has it that it was snowing here. Around 0330 on Friday morning, little flurries were spotted by our night dispatcher. You couldn't tell the next morning, though. Apparently it snows relatively frequently up in Mosul, in the northern part of the country. The Baghdad area never gets more than a light dusting at best, but even that isn't ( Read more... )

I wonder... if one of the Aussie soldiers over here gets killed by a mortar attack or convoy ambush, will the SBS feel the need to clean blood off their hands?  Probably not.

It was 3 years ago, and apparently it is still a 'news worthy' story. This prison is NOTHING like it was back then. NOTHING. The prisoners here live in better facilities and ( Read more... )

I turned 20 yesterday. It was kind of nice that no one knew. Everything stayed 'business as usual' that way ( Read more... )

Right before I went on R&R one of the guys was talking about how pathetic the rainy season had been. He was right. At that point we had maybe 2 days of rain since the first of November... The ground hasn't been dry since. It's pouring outside, just as it has been for the past 24 hours. Pools of standing water are taking over. The office (tent ( Read more... )

Thunder, lightning, and hail. Crazy.

It's raining. Again. It may not seem like 3 nights of rain in the last 12 days is "a lot," but when you take into account that all the mud still hasn't dried up from the first day, it is. After driving an Engine all last week, I would have rather been driving in a Hereford snow storm than in Iraqi mud. Granted I was driving an Engine rather ( Read more... )

That was close...