Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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The L-3 Command and Control Systems and Software Team.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Yeah...

So im convinced that the shower water here is 211.9 degrees F. The water tanks bake in the sun all day... Could use a little camo netting or something, Im putting in a work order.

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First attempt at Facial hair lol.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Pictures!

This is an example of how crude the Army can be on a Deployment. This is a sign hanging inside an MWR (Morale Welfare and Recreation.) Where you go to hang out and relax. The Army tries to be all hardcore with everything over here... Its quite funny.

View from a Blackhawk with the silouette of the Gunner. Pretty cool.

So the window is on its way to being parrallel with the ground in this picture. Theres no mercy on a aproach for a landing.


Sunday, July 12, 2009

Blerb before Bed.

So I went out to the Thermometer this morning at 10:00 am... It was only 117 Degrees Farenhiet. And, on top of that, Iraq is having the worst dust storms in the past several decades, and of coarse the Iraq Ministry of the Interior blames Global Warming. (the Iraqis can get away with that because we all know their not the coldest beer in the cooler.)
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So, apparently the Stars and Stripes (the military run newspaper) is a big fan of the Clinton News Network (CNN). I quote the Stars and Stripes...
"The United States Government should not be providing the highest quiality of Military training in the world to individuals who hope to use that training in a 'race war' or in an effort to overthrow the United States Government"
"In the wake of several high profile murders by extremists of the radical right..."
This apparent 'Military wide' pandemic of Radical Rightwing Military Terrorists was dreamed up after the 'radical left' found http://www.newsaxon.org/... Of the 7,906 members of the site, 130 had Military as their job listing in their profile. So apparently if 1.6% of a racial group is Military its an overall Military problem. I love how 1.6% is worth a two page full color newspaper article.
What I want to see is an article of the percentage of the Military Obama voters have prior gang ties or were forced to join the Army to avoid going to jail. (less than 1.6%... Doubtful) But publishing an artical with those statistics would not be politicaly correct. I forgot about that....
Good Night.
This is the Septic Waste and Grease trap in the middle of Joint Security Station Ur. It gave the whole base a smell of a French Fries being cooked in a Horse Stable. We named it "Lake WTF"...


A close up of a blow-up dog toy thingy floating on the edge of this wonderful lake!


I forgot to get a picture of the "Perfume River"... Its Waste water flowing through part of the base. You walk on boards laid across sand bags over the leakage.

Overall- Its a "wonderful" place. Psyche.


Monday, July 6, 2009

View from a Blackhawk Helicopter of Sadr City, Iraq. One of the worst and most dangerous cities in the country. (And... a dump)

My fellow technician.


Hanging out in full armor in a Blackhawk on the way to JSS Ur.