Home Sweet Home..?

(3 days to go) This is probably going to sound crazy. I have no idea what the reason is behind this, but I am feeling like nervous about coming home. I can’t explain why and it doesn’t make sense to me. Don’t get me wrong here, I am totally pumped about coming home. I mean, I really really really want to come home and never look back on this shitty fucked up place, but I feel nervous about it. This feeling is pissing me off because... Read More

Germany vs Nepal

We had a fairly light day today, Fridays have a tendency to be late starters around camp. One of the major contributing factors to this tendency is due to the heavy drinking that goes on every thursday night, the night of the big camp bar-b-que and everyone is generally sleeping it off most of the next morning. I was thinking about the stuff I wrote yesterday as I was laying in bed waiting... Read More

Creating a Monster

Today the weather here was perfect. Cool leaning toward cold, dark and overcast, windy but not steady.. it was windy in gusts that shook all the tents. Perfect nap weather. So we only had one short job to do today and that pretty much suits everybody fine. Ramadan is coming to an end and not a minute too soon, there have been 13 consecutive days of attacks on the main road we use every day and nobody wants the next attack to be on our team. I guess... Read More

Road Warriors

As expected the hangover from the GLI (thats the Gypsy Lounge Invasion just in case you were wondering) was un-fucking-believable. I think I was still drunk when mom kicked me and said ‘you wanted to go to the airport at 530 right?’.. but why the hell shouldn’t I still be drunk, we only just smashed our faces shut 2 damn hours ago. So I shook Noah, we loaded up the F-150 and headed for the airport (with me driving!?). Got our gear... Read More

Boom Town

One week left of Ramadan and the hajis are starting to get crazy. Apparently not only is the entire fucking holiday of Ramadan a one way ticket to heaven, but if you die during this last week then you get extra virgins or something. So the deal is this, these fucking assholes pray and fast for the first 3 weeks, then come week 4 they really start in with the suicide bombings and attacks and all that shit. Yesterday there were like 4 vehicle IEDs on... Read More

Iraq-o-Ween

HAPPY IRAQ-O-WEEN!!! There was light rain all day over here. I felt bad for the soldiers out on the roads today, apparently there is a heightened alert during the election time so the military has a bunch of Bradleys and M1′s and stuff plopped along the major highway to prevent attacks. The guys look like they are just living out of their vehicles for a few days. We used to run into these dudes stationed out in BFE on Route Tampa (main N/S highway... Read More

Dead Cat

I pepper-sprayed a wild dog that was running after our car after jumping off a 10 foot fence. How the huge beast got up there I have no fucking clue, but the motherfucker jumped down and charged so I had to hose it. Threw a flash-bang into an intersection a little later on in the day, stupid Iraqis for some reason don’t stop when large men with automatic weapons yell at them. I just don’t understand it. I know this may sound crazy but... Read More

Uncle Haji Wants YOU!

I got sick the other day administering PT tests to dirty, smelly, straight-off-the-streets Iraqi dudes (we volunteered to help out some buddies who needed a hand). I guess they just put out a recruiting poster.. I got a pic of one around here somewhere. By the way, the dudes we screened looked nowhere near as healthy as the fuckers in the poster (and what’s with that chicks creepy grin as she holds that AK???). Anyway, so I was totally influenzified... Read More

Sideburns-A-Go-Go

So I guess I’ve been going on a road rage rampage lately. I smashed 2 more cars before lunch today and then ran a $400,000 CIA super-secret-james-bond bullshit mobile into a guardrail. I got a call on my cell that they know who I am and they are pursuing the matter at the highest levels. I think this might go down on my permanent record (oh no!). So anyway, Noah and I are still pissed off about the same old shit, I mean yeah we make a ton of... Read More

Ramadan Rampage

Ramadan has started – gather ’round children, its story time. So first day of Ramadan here in B-dad and everything seemed a little off like one of those overcast days where you feel like you have a hangover but you didn’t drink the night before. The kind of day that makes you all introspective and pathetic. The day before, insurgants blew up the haji market and green zone cafe, just hours after some of our guys were enjoying a quite... Read More