Angelina Jolie showed up to have lunch with our Troops in the Green Zone in Baghdad today. She was there in her role as U.N. Ambassador to assess the humanitarian issues there. Of her mission, Angelina has said: “There’s lots of goodwill and lots of discussion, but there seems to be just a lot of [...]
I recently got an email from Ed Kirkpatrick. He contacted me because he had seen on my blog that my son is stationed on FOB Falcon. Ed’s son, Scott Kirkpatrick, had been stationed on the same FOB during the same time as my son. He asked me if my son might have known his son. [...]
My precious Soldier Son came online for just a couple of minutes yesterday. A message from him popped up on my computer screen that read, ’24 hours!’ That was all it said but I knew what he meant. We are down to hours before he starts his trek back to the real world. The past [...]
Michael Yon’s Iraqi Iwo Jima shot, Muslims and Christians replacing the cross on top of St. John’s in Baghdad. Jules Crittenden calls the photo above ‘Iraq Iwo’. The well-known photo of the toppling of the statue of Saddam has been cited as THE photo from this battle in the Global War on Terrorism. Crittenden points [...]
Courage is a scarce commodity. It is so rare that we are finding ourselves with an under manned armed services these days and we have diplomats who don’t want to do their jobs because it might be dangerous. They haven’t minded cashing their paychecks, but don’t expect them to actually earn those paychecks. From Fox [...]
Baghdad, Iraq Just some scenery around Baghdad
Centcom: A Paratrooper from the 618th Engineer Support Company (Airborne) walks across the dusty, desert terrain pulling security on the outskirts of Siniyah, Iraq. The Paratroopers used bulldozers to construct a berm almost around the entire city to isolate terrorists who operate out of it. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Carden. In looking [...]
Christmas in Baghdad U.S. Army soldiers from Company B of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, under cover of a smoke grenade, hunt for a sniper that lightly wounded one of their compatriots in New Baghdad, an eastern neighborhood in the Iraqi capital on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) AP American troops hunting [...]