as of 1000 hours local time this morning, I am combat missions complete.
We finally wrapped up the operation in the city of Hit a few days ago. It was extremly hectic. We moved into the town bit by bit, securing sections of the city by force and presence and punched out repeated patrols to locate and arrest insurgent leadership and to locate caches of...
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We finally wrapped up the operation in the city of Hit a few days ago. It was extremly hectic. We moved into the town bit by bit, securing sections of the city by force and presence and punched out repeated patrols to locate and arrest insurgent leadership and to locate caches of...
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one....more...time.
it's a doozy. wish us luck.
it's a doozy. wish us luck.
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mulhollanddrive:
Hey, I know it's been a long time. Glad to see that you are still safe. Hope all is well. Thanks again for all you folks do for us. I hope you can return home soon. Good luck.
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mulhollanddrive:
Hey, I know it's been a long time. Glad to see that you are still safe. Hope all is well. Thanks again for all you folks do for us. I hope you can return home soon. Good luck.
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ok only a quick update here. I've been up for about 40 hours going and am gonna try to get some sleep before I have to be back up in a few hours. just out of the field. crazy week/ busy week. We're moving again sometime soon it seems- not to come home...just to change areas again...so have to pack up and throw away about...
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datsun:
sorry I haven't emailed you lately. I've been too distracted by my own life to be much of a friend. hope you're safe. glad the elections went so well.
Happy Valentine's Day!!!
Happy Valentine's Day!!!
recordandplay:
happy belated valentines. glad you're ok and hope you come home soon
- Lindsay
- Lindsay
Hi all! Have to make this a really quick update here. Jesus what a fuckin week! It's been insane. Really busy and the other day I almost got blown the fuck up....twice...within half an hour. UGH! Obviously I'm ok.
We had just gotten out and I was driving patrols along the major highway we are responsible for watching outside of Ramadi. The first bomb went...
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We had just gotten out and I was driving patrols along the major highway we are responsible for watching outside of Ramadi. The first bomb went...
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drake:
say, are you Russian?
lavinia:
Wow.
I hope you are home now.
I hope you are home now.
OK REAL quick short update all.
I'm going to be really busy "outside the wire" for the next couple of weeks, so if you don't hear from me that's why. it's Super Happy Bombtime in Iraq and the elections are coming so I'll be out helping keep places from getting blown up (by standing in front of them, sir?) and hopefully arresting the mean mean...
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I'm going to be really busy "outside the wire" for the next couple of weeks, so if you don't hear from me that's why. it's Super Happy Bombtime in Iraq and the elections are coming so I'll be out helping keep places from getting blown up (by standing in front of them, sir?) and hopefully arresting the mean mean...
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_sarah_:
I hope you are well.
I hope you are well.
racer_x:
Cover your fucking ass. 
Well it's been a while since I've updated so I'll try here real quick in the time that I have.
Things have been really up and down the last couple of weeks. It was pretty quiet over the holidays. The insurgents were still reeling from Fallujah and the locals had largely pushed them out of the town of Ramadi (good for them!) but now with...
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Things have been really up and down the last couple of weeks. It was pretty quiet over the holidays. The insurgents were still reeling from Fallujah and the locals had largely pushed them out of the town of Ramadi (good for them!) but now with...
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twwly:
How you are you doing?
I'm going soft. I think it might just be because I'm ovulating, but I had to fish the uneaten baby mice out of the vipers tank. Made them a little nest of TP and put them in front of a heater.
What is wrong with me? I used to strangle bunnies for my boa and now I'm going all soft on 2 mice the size of...well, something really small.
Sigh.
I'm going soft. I think it might just be because I'm ovulating, but I had to fish the uneaten baby mice out of the vipers tank. Made them a little nest of TP and put them in front of a heater.
What is wrong with me? I used to strangle bunnies for my boa and now I'm going all soft on 2 mice the size of...well, something really small.
Sigh.
roby:
this sounds kinda weird maybe, but i just would like to be friends with more of our kids over in iraq. i want to support you guys...plus you're old school...umm...consider me your new friend! yay!
OK. Have to be quick here. not much time in the lab before I head out. I spent the last couple days out in the field sleeping in a hole dug into the top of a sand dune and covered with a poncho to keep out the freezing rain and high winds. generally miserable, but just working. then they brought us in early early this...
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clara:
I'm glad you got a laugh out of it. I'm sorry that I haven't been better at keeping in touch. Are you still covered in mud?
It's been a few weeks so I'd better update! I've been so busy running around out here. We've left Fallujah behind for good (we hope) and have moved out now to Ramadi. We're just outside the town. It was pretty bad here earlier, but after Fallujah the insurgents saw what happened there and so did the local populace...the insurgents don't want to die wholesale and...
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mydogfarted:
Just wondering if you got the iPod and CDs I sent.
datsun:
Thinking of you....
Merry Christmas!
Wish you could spend it in the US, but very grateful for you and your compadres who volunteer to defend us.
Merry Christmas!
Wish you could spend it in the US, but very grateful for you and your compadres who volunteer to defend us.
Well hello there everybody. just a quick update for now. I've moved yet again. Now we are based out of Foward Operating Base Ramadi and should be around here for a while. no telling how long since we are detached and sort of subject to the whimsy of much higher command structures.
the foot is ok. turns out what they thought was a fracture was...
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the foot is ok. turns out what they thought was a fracture was...
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phoebus:
Hey Volkov,
How are you connecting from Iraq? Wireless, or from your unit's PCs?
How are you connecting from Iraq? Wireless, or from your unit's PCs?
_bossanova_:
That was sweet of you guys to take her in in the first place. I hope you're doing alright. I think about you a lot, and it doesn't help when the conflict in the city you wrote about last is feature prominently in the news.
You stay well.
P.S.-I am sending you a Christmas card, for sure, but I was curious about what kind of other stuff is okay to send (cookies, man, not panties).
I hope you're doing alright. I think about you a lot, and it doesn't help when the conflict in the city you wrote about last is feature prominently in the news. You stay well.
P.S.-I am sending you a Christmas card, for sure, but I was curious about what kind of other stuff is okay to send (cookies, man, not panties).
The first night out we staged at a huge ammo dump site. Itrained so I strung up my poncho between the chest-high stacks of crates around and slept peaceful and dry underneath. the crates were stacked in rows and were full of 155mm artillery shells. We weren't afraid.
When the Marines went into Fallujah. I was already there. Task Force Wolfpack comprised of tanks ,...
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datsun:
Hope you're well. Thanks for sending me your address. Anything you need over there? No request too mundane or bizarre. Get that foot healed (though we wouldn't say no to you having to come back stateside). Kisses!
phoebus:
How's your foot doing?
*hugs*
I can't wait. I've been worrying and "praying" for what feels like ages.
My entry in four words: I'm moving to Chicago.