Saturday, August 8, 2009

Ready to come home

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While I don’t leave Kuwait until 20 August, I am less than 48 hours from departing ISAF HQ and Afghanistan. As of right now, I have been her...
Monday, August 3, 2009

I gotta get out of here!

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With the Kabul video done and the closed circuit television system up and running, I have nothing to do. I can either hang out here at the ...

ISAF TV

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Since my return, I have been tapped to coordinate the installation of a closed circuit television system here on base. Basically, the idea ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Back from Helmand

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I made it safely through my embed with the Marines and Operation Kanjar; the US surge into southern Helmand Province. The drive from Camp D...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Odd but true

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It may sound totally ridiculous, but after a few days your body does get use to temperatures soaring above 12o- degrees. How hot it actuall...

A rare breed

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In the days leading up to this operation, the Marines at this Forward Operating Base have plenty of preparations to make, not to mention the...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

A walk in the moon dust

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He sat on a small wooden folding chair keeping a sharp eye on a wall of blackness. His fate, just inches from the end of the platform with ...

A front row seat to history

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I’ve had to take a break from my last assignment and head outside the wire. No one was available to shoot an operation that was going down ...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

So now what?

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The MPPAT is now in the hands of Lieutenant Commander Mark Walton. It’s his baby. Like Ted Williams or Babe Ruth, I ended my career there ...

Back in Kabul

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It’s been a while since I wrote anything in the journal. When I got home from R&R, I didn’t want to take a single second away from playi...