I've been in contact with my friend in Iraq. I asked him if the reports of things getting better are true. He is stationed near the stadium where the soccer match between Saudi Arabia and Iraq was held. After the match the Iraqi's were shooting their guns in the air in celebration placing their base on full alert. Here is his reply:
Update on that bit of sports fun, 4 killed, 17 injured in that bit of celebration. As for your question, Gator, that's mostly true. The insurgents are running out of guys who are willing to strap bombs to themselves and rush a fence. Sadly, their new MO is to hire regular guys off the street as hauling truckers and when they get to the target, they detonate the truck with the driver unaware. A fair display of douche-baggery if ever I saw one. But as I said, for the most part things are quiet here. Our boys in the engineering corps are helping the locals to rebuild their homes, and making a lot of improvements, i.e. building wells, bridges, roads, health clinics, things our ol' buddy Saddam never took time out of his busy days to address for his people. As for myself, I'll be manning a guard tower here every week and rolling out as a convoy ops gunner. Still up in the air as to whether I'll be doing that the whole deployment. That's it for now, over and out.
Update on that bit of sports fun, 4 killed, 17 injured in that bit of celebration. As for your question, Gator, that's mostly true. The insurgents are running out of guys who are willing to strap bombs to themselves and rush a fence. Sadly, their new MO is to hire regular guys off the street as hauling truckers and when they get to the target, they detonate the truck with the driver unaware. A fair display of douche-baggery if ever I saw one. But as I said, for the most part things are quiet here. Our boys in the engineering corps are helping the locals to rebuild their homes, and making a lot of improvements, i.e. building wells, bridges, roads, health clinics, things our ol' buddy Saddam never took time out of his busy days to address for his people. As for myself, I'll be manning a guard tower here every week and rolling out as a convoy ops gunner. Still up in the air as to whether I'll be doing that the whole deployment. That's it for now, over and out.
