Elvis Has Left the Building

Days to go: zero (just a wake up) We fucking made it. The contract is done. Time to go home. We’ve been a combination of exhausted and excited all day. We had a bunch of work to do but hammered it all out and still had time to mail our guitars home. God damn, what is home anyway, I only have a truck and a storage unit to go back to. Maybe sleep on my mom’s couch for a while. Noah has about the same. We had a long talk in the chow hall... Read More

Creep Doggin’

Days to go: 9 (SINGLE DIGITS MUTHAFUKKA!!!) Noah “Dude, they’re adding days!” Me, having no idea what he is talking about “What? What days?” Noah “Days until we get out of here.” Me, thinking someone extended our contract somehow secretly “Who’s adding days?” Noah “You know, ‘them’!” Me, finally realizing what the fuck he was talking about “Bastards! Why the... Read More

Dukes of BIAP

Hypothetically speaking here.. what would you do if your boss handed you and your 3 buddies the keys to 2 brand new $250,000 BMW armored james bond cars with tv’s and radar inside? What if he told you that he just wanted you to have them washed and filled up with gas so that you could deliver them in good condition tomorrow? Well if you were Matt, Lorcan, Noah, and of course yours truly you would take those cars out on the Iraqi highways and... 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

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

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