I dont know much about electronics but last week a patch panel in one of our office on site in Iraq was struck by lighting! I didnt believe it at first until I took the unit apart and sure enough there was black inside the unit suggesting that it had indeed been hit.
I went online […]
I forgot to mention in the last post that we’re getting 2 espresso machines for our canteen , but just for our platoon! We won a competition a few weeks ago based on strength and agility across the desert , without getting hit of course by enemy fire and the platoon who was to be […]
A few weeks ago we bought ( well you , the US tax payer did!) 3 ellipticals for cross training on when we cant get out in the snow/sand out here. They arrived today from the US in a carrier shipment and we’ve spent the day setting them up so we’ve no energy to get […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHvbCty0Xd4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlzdZqSVbJ4
On of the bes tarmy recruting videos I have ever seen …. Youll signup after this one ,trust me!
You might laugh when you hear that us guys fighting here need to go through rigourous health and safety training. There are teams of training people that train soldiers in the US and on site here in Iraq. We’ve learnt about lifting boxes and keeping our backs straight , because lifting an M16 on your […]
We’ve been staring at 4 walls here for a while , we’re without our plasma flat screen which has been getting covered more and more in sand over the last year or so. We’re waiting for a new unit to arrive but we also found 2 home theater popcorn machines online to make life that […]
Theres a large contingent of British Troops working with our platoon here in Iraq and im always amazed to hear them talking in their english accents about stuff at home Recently one of the IT guys assigned to our platoon had a conversation with one of theirs about trying to source a broadband isp […]
In my spare time here in Iraq I could go digging in the sand to keep myself occupied but of course that would be a complete waste of time. Theres just too much sand to figure out the best places and Id probably hit a land mine.
I could pick up a soccer ball or golf […]
Is John mc Cain ok in the head? A recent statement - >
“The United States military could stay in Iraq for “maybe a hundred years” and that “would be fine with me,” John McCain told two hundred or so people at a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire, on Jan 3. And U.S. troops […]