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The best thing about Iraq
on Oct 15, 2007So I'm driving along Route 33W near Charlottesville on my way to Shenandoah National Forest. As soon as I start gaining altitude, the sky becomes curiously overcast and I can see the wind is picking up by the minute.Skyline Drive exit. I roll up to t...
Nostos
on Sep 23, 2007Nostos (Greek: νόστος) (pl. nostoi) Homecoming. It is a theme dealt with in many Homeric writings such as the Odyssey, in which the main character, Odysseus, strives to get home after the Trojan War.Fishing trawler a half mile up the coast. I j...
Camp Virginia, Kuwait
on Sep 18, 200725 by 100 foot hut. The stench was overpowering by midday. The smell of old crusty uniforms in desperate need of a change out and stacked bodies in need of a scrub. So I sat outside and read James Herriot until the heat got to me, then re-entered whe...
Detonation
on Sep 13, 2007The first one was different.Not in the way you would expect.It's not as if the first VBIED scared the religion into me, and all the rest got easier.Quite the opposite, in fact.With that first concussion wave dissipating, what I was about to realize w...
Sheikh Sattar assassination
on Sep 12, 2007Visionary.Loyalist.Genuine Leader.These are just a few of the adjectives I have heard used to describe the man who was responsible for bringing peace to Ramadi more than any other.Sheikh Sattar was the mastermind and visionary leader who created and...
Anbar, meet the Ospreys
on Sep 7, 2007Loitering in the chow hall last night, I was sitting with the CASEVAC (casualty evacuation) corpsmen stationed here in Taquaddum. Having worked with them over the past seven months, I've never had the opportunity to sit and actually hold down a conve...