Comments | strypgia: ".....In The Order They Were Taken From Us"

strypgia

".....In The Order They Were Taken From Us"

Apr 02, 2008 16:18

Not my fault I've been quiet this time. The wave of violence that Jaiysh al-Mahdi unleashed in Baghdad fell largely on the eastern, Shi'a sections around Sadr City. The areas near us. For the most part, it fell on our neighboring battalions, so we had a couple of days of blackouts when they began taking casualties from the EFPs and RPG ambushes ( Read more... )

action, going home, iraq life

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masterofsexnsin April 2 2008, 19:57:03 UTC

I'm counting down the days with you. Stay safe and being a hero means staying alive.

Rough Times anonymous April 3 2008, 00:16:48 UTC

Sorry to hear of the attacks and the costly aftermath. As for the promotion board, it's still amazing how our bureaucracy continues to crunch along no matter what is going on outside.

By any chance, has anything gone right since you've been there?

Tumbleweed

Re: Rough Times strypgia April 3 2008, 08:21:10 UTC

Umm....
I think we've done a fair job of breaking up some nasty Al Qaeda and Iran-supported terror cells...And I think we've made life a little better for some of the people around here.

But the Iraqi Gov't is still a shambling, corrupt mess, the city services are as broken down as ever, and the militias are only stronger.

I don't know.

Re: Rough Times anonymous April 4 2008, 03:00:25 UTC

Hey, I think that's progress and you all deserve countless kudos for that. It's just a shame that things couldn't have gone better AND that the Western world has a 30 sec attention span.

.....what were we talking about again?

Tumbleweed

anonymous April 15 2008, 18:49:25 UTC

The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post From the Front: 04/15/2008 - News and Personal dispatches from the front lines.

http://thunderrun.blogspot.com/2008/04/from-front-04152008.html