Monthly Archives: September 2010

I am sorry, but you need know

Let me start by saying I am sorry to my readership for pointing you to this blog entry, but it is one you need to know about. This blog entry is sad, horrifying and very graphic. That warning is right up front. If you have a squeamish stomach or don’t think you can handle it, then have someone else read it to you and edit out the parts. However AMERICA needs to know.

His adrenalin already maxed and because of Arlington’s ineptness, the father instinctively jumps onto the truck in his dress clothes despite the rancid odor. The father begins digging through…

Read the entire blog over at The Burn Pit, www.burnpit.us/2010/09/father-driven-to-pick-through-his-son’s-remains-just-imagine-the-horror/

A great story related to Afghanistan

H/T to my very good friend LL for this one.

I don’t know how she finds these stories, but she does. This is a great one and should bring a smile to you after reading it.

www.pantagraph.com/app/blogs/main/?p=5426

You know your MRAP driver is a newbie when…

My buddy, the The Donovan over at the Castle has a great piece up called “You know your MRAP driver is a newbie when…”

If you have ever been deployed and had to work around MRAPs, you will like this one I am pretty sure.

Check it out at www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/you_know_your_m.html for a laugh.

Screaming Eagles helping screaming children

U.S. Army Sgt. Adam Morris (left), a medic with the 412th Civil Affairs Battalion, on patrol with 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Bulldog, treats a child’s wound after his father asked the passing patrol for medical assistance in Kunar province, Afghanistan, on Aug. 25, 2010.

DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Okan Scott, U.S. Army.

Twas the night before Ramadan

My good friend “The Sniper” has put together a great poem called Twas the night before Ramadan. It is worth the read. WARNING- Don’t be drinking near your computer when you read it. The sniper is not responsible for your ruined keyboards, hard drives or mice. Neither am I.

Twas the night before Ramadan and all through the FOB,

not a chamber was empty, tons of mortars to lob.

All the soldiers were passed out asleep in their racks,

always leery of a night time insurgent attack.

With me in my tower with grenades close at hand

we were armed to teeth every woman and man….

Read the rest at

www.thesniper.us/?p=7109

Could not be more true

Since I just got back from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan I can tell you that for the most part, this strip from Delta Bravo Sierra could not be more true and relevant. The one correction is that there is still a Green Bean in Bagram, two of them actually. Everything else is dead-on though. Especially the PT belt.

www.deltabravosierra.us/2010/08/30/08302010/

The boardwalk

I walked this entire boardwalk when I was in Kandahar on my way into Afghanistan about three weeks ago. The TGI Fridays was not open yet when I was there and I wasn’t in the mood for the KFC. I ended up having a very good beef gyro at one of the other eateries. The boardwalk is about the only decent thing in Kandahar, to include the hockey rink in the middle of the boardwalk.

The one establishment that is not at the boardwalk but that is also very popular is the Tim Horton’s. If you have ever lived in Canada or near the canadian border, then you know what a Timmy Ho’s is (Canadians called it Tim’s).