You're right about the google, I just tried it lol.GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
no shit????? wow. I remember when they built that one to replace the half a dozen or so that were spread all along the base. It was a big deal for the FOB. It was built a few weeks before that big ass difac youre probably eating in, along with the walma...PX and the subway/burger king/pizza hut food court. My trailer was the very first one north that you see walking north from the PX compound, right in the corner of the pad. the god damn motor pool was 1 mile away and I had to walk that shit full battle rattle at least 8 or 9 times a day sometimes just to get ready to go out on patrol. thats some shit about that haji shop, but even the fact that you refer to it as the bizzar proves that you are most definately there. Thats not something you could learn to call it by on google, as i recall, there was a sign that said that right?lowing wrote:
Yeah, no shit, what the are those pools all about???GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
the Tigris river is to the east of where your at, right across the street from the gate, like RIGHT across the street. Only its on the Iraqi side of taji, so youre a few kilometers away. Im almost certain I know which pad your at. Without risking OPSEC, you work with aviation right?
I could tell you some interesting things about that FOB and what it was before we showed up if you wanna know. Give you a hint, stay away from those vast pools of still water that seem to form out of nowhere. at least there were a lot of those when i was there.
Yeah, over here working aviation, but our pad is right behind the PX. The MWR is acroos the street and in front of the PX, we are behind it. By the way the Haji "Bizzar" in the PX compound burnt to the ground about 2 weeks ago. Dunno if any of that was up and running when you were here., but caught fire and went up in flames. Stood outside the hooch and watched it burn.
as long as you dont show the area where you work at or anything showing unit names or designations. When you think about it, anything that local contractors or KBR support personell are exposed to, Im pretty sure would be OK. I mean we had Iraqi teenagers helping us with Bradley maintenance. Just be careful about showing where you work at specifically. Im pretty sure a lot of the stuff you work with, especially helicopter aviation, you are required to have at least a 'secret' security clearence. But pics of the FOB would be fine I think.lowing wrote:
Yeah, there is a rusty water tower ( or whatever) with murals of 1 cav and someone else I did bother to identify, then it says something about OIF1 and OIF2 on it, with some dates. I ride past it almost everyday going to the gym but I don't remember what it says. I would post pictures on here but I am afraid of violating OPSEC. I have asked about shit I have sent home but not about posting pics for the whole world to view. What would be the general rule of thumb for that? I will ask tomorrow about it. I never was gunna bother, but now my integrity is in question. lol.GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
I wonder lowing, have they gotten rid of any reference to TF 39 BCT or the 1st Cavalry division during OIF II. We really built that place up. I know there were a few murals of the CAV around there. It would be nice to know if they kept our image there with all the units passing through
Anyway, they are starting to go crazy with the murals around here. I guess every unit has got their own artists huh??
Thats one of the reasons why i took down that thread where I recieved so much karma on, I didnt wanna risk showing too many pictures with areas or personnel.
Yeah, no shit, what the are those pools all about???
^^ I'm more intrigued about this! Answer it GS!
^^ I'm more intrigued about this! Answer it GS!
Blackbelts are just whitebelts who have never quit.
well.....hmmmm, ok
Taji is more than just some insignificant little are 27 klicks north of Baghdad. During the Baath era, Taji was home to one of the busiest, (if not, the) most important airfields in the Iraqi military. Not only that, It housed a division of special republican guard. Not only that, it was the headquarters of Iraqi Armored Training. All Iraqi army tanks had to go through Taji at least once in their short lifetimes for refurbishes and repairs. its like our Ft Knox. Thats why you might or might not see that giant Iraqi graveyard of dead armored and engineer vehicles (home of an engineer brigade too, you see a lot of pontoon bridges and rafts just hanging on the side of the road unused in years and worthless. again, I dont how much exposure you have towards those area lowing since they are closer to the wire)
But, the most important thing about Taji is the fact that for a period of time it was home the iraqi NBC Program. Nuclear, Biological and Chemical weapons. Now the town of Taji is reall shitty. Its a small village where the majority of homes are mud brick. The airfield is outside Taji with a bunch of other smaller villages. The most significant town in the area though, and the cause for this post really is a place called Tarmiya. Bad, Bad, Bad place.
Holy shit, thinking about that place now I get goosebumps being reminded of the first time I went through that town. Fucking awesome man, everyone started to go inside the second they saw us coming. Businesses and soda stands went inside and what was a huge crowd in the middle of the day quickly dispersed and dissappeared in a matter of 10 minutes. It was like an old western shootout. You could have heard a cricket. and then BOOM! Rpg, Small arms and mortars all rolled into one. But we had Kiowas (in my opinion the wildest, most daring helicopter pilot there is...many a time a Kiowa went to a hotzone where an Apache pilot was too afraid to go alone) but it was short and sweet and they all missed. Within ten minutes, we capture 4 assholes and find a huge cache of rockets and mortars. The way we capture em though was like the scenes out of a movie. We asked if they had weapons, they said no. We searched, nothing came up. Then my LT decided to check some sacks of rice (or flour, or barley whatever it was) and as he was cutting them up, thats where we found the contraband. thing is this house (it was in the basement actually) had about 50 sacks of rice stacked on one and another and our commander didnt wanna hang around for another ambush. I was on the comms and I hear the kiowa pilots request permission to demolish the house with rockets by asking our battalion commander on the ground, who was with us this mission. He said, and this stuck out in my head, "Thats a negative, there some lady's house who right next door and all these munitions will just destroy her home too, well have to leave those sacks there and just take these guys in" I mean cmon, if that doesnt say we give a fuck about the regular Iraqi civilian, what does?
oh yeah, and all this was on my very first patrol outside the wire. I was in country for about 3 days.
Sorry for going off on a tangent, I figured that annecdote might support your OP. But anyways. Taji. Tarmiya. The significance of the area is this: Remember when Secretary Powell was pleading the case of the United States for the invasion of Iraq to the UN? Remember those trailers he said were mobile whatever the fuck, chemical weapons labs or something? Those trailers were in Tarmiya. Iraq's WMD program was HQed in Taji Airfield with all the smarty arty rocket scientist and chemical specialists living in Tarmiya, a Baathist haven.
Damn I wanna share more of these fucking Iraq memories before they fade away.
Taji is more than just some insignificant little are 27 klicks north of Baghdad. During the Baath era, Taji was home to one of the busiest, (if not, the) most important airfields in the Iraqi military. Not only that, It housed a division of special republican guard. Not only that, it was the headquarters of Iraqi Armored Training. All Iraqi army tanks had to go through Taji at least once in their short lifetimes for refurbishes and repairs. its like our Ft Knox. Thats why you might or might not see that giant Iraqi graveyard of dead armored and engineer vehicles (home of an engineer brigade too, you see a lot of pontoon bridges and rafts just hanging on the side of the road unused in years and worthless. again, I dont how much exposure you have towards those area lowing since they are closer to the wire)
But, the most important thing about Taji is the fact that for a period of time it was home the iraqi NBC Program. Nuclear, Biological and Chemical weapons. Now the town of Taji is reall shitty. Its a small village where the majority of homes are mud brick. The airfield is outside Taji with a bunch of other smaller villages. The most significant town in the area though, and the cause for this post really is a place called Tarmiya. Bad, Bad, Bad place.
Holy shit, thinking about that place now I get goosebumps being reminded of the first time I went through that town. Fucking awesome man, everyone started to go inside the second they saw us coming. Businesses and soda stands went inside and what was a huge crowd in the middle of the day quickly dispersed and dissappeared in a matter of 10 minutes. It was like an old western shootout. You could have heard a cricket. and then BOOM! Rpg, Small arms and mortars all rolled into one. But we had Kiowas (in my opinion the wildest, most daring helicopter pilot there is...many a time a Kiowa went to a hotzone where an Apache pilot was too afraid to go alone) but it was short and sweet and they all missed. Within ten minutes, we capture 4 assholes and find a huge cache of rockets and mortars. The way we capture em though was like the scenes out of a movie. We asked if they had weapons, they said no. We searched, nothing came up. Then my LT decided to check some sacks of rice (or flour, or barley whatever it was) and as he was cutting them up, thats where we found the contraband. thing is this house (it was in the basement actually) had about 50 sacks of rice stacked on one and another and our commander didnt wanna hang around for another ambush. I was on the comms and I hear the kiowa pilots request permission to demolish the house with rockets by asking our battalion commander on the ground, who was with us this mission. He said, and this stuck out in my head, "Thats a negative, there some lady's house who right next door and all these munitions will just destroy her home too, well have to leave those sacks there and just take these guys in" I mean cmon, if that doesnt say we give a fuck about the regular Iraqi civilian, what does?
oh yeah, and all this was on my very first patrol outside the wire. I was in country for about 3 days.
Sorry for going off on a tangent, I figured that annecdote might support your OP. But anyways. Taji. Tarmiya. The significance of the area is this: Remember when Secretary Powell was pleading the case of the United States for the invasion of Iraq to the UN? Remember those trailers he said were mobile whatever the fuck, chemical weapons labs or something? Those trailers were in Tarmiya. Iraq's WMD program was HQed in Taji Airfield with all the smarty arty rocket scientist and chemical specialists living in Tarmiya, a Baathist haven.
Damn I wanna share more of these fucking Iraq memories before they fade away.
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Ok, wtf are the MWR and the PX, seriously dude, I don't get a SHT. Could U2 talk in a non-coded language?lowing wrote:
Yeah, no shit, what the are those pools all about???GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
the Tigris river is to the east of where your at, right across the street from the gate, like RIGHT across the street. Only its on the Iraqi side of taji, so youre a few kilometers away. Im almost certain I know which pad your at. Without risking OPSEC, you work with aviation right?lowing wrote:
No I never have, just stuck with the MWR and my 1/2 hour. Last month we got internet in our hooch, me and my roomate share it at 65 bucks a month, yeah 65 bucks a month for internet about as slow as dial up, and not as reliable, shit always drops off line. Between this and the fact that I have had some down time from work is the reason I have been on so much. Nothing to do here except eat, sleep work out and internet. It ain't like I am gunna catch a cab and go sight seeing. Although that is ashame, I guess the Tigris and the Euphrates is just beyond the base. Would be cool to say I have seen it. LOL, although I guess if I am gunna take the time and effort to lie about Iraq I might as well through seeing the Tigris and Euphrates in the lie as well.
I could tell you some interesting things about that FOB and what it was before we showed up if you wanna know. Give you a hint, stay away from those vast pools of still water that seem to form out of nowhere. at least there were a lot of those when i was there.
Yeah, over here working aviation, but our pad is right behind the PX. The MWR is acroos the street and in front of the PX, we are behind it. By the way the Haji "Bizzar" in the PX compound burnt to the ground about 2 weeks ago. Dunno if any of that was up and running when you were here., but caught fire and went up in flames. Stood outside the hooch and watched it burn.
Morale, Welfare and Recreation = MWR
a place where soldiers or civilians working for the government could go and rent a dvd or video game or board game or internet or whatever. You sign in and have a certain amount of time to use the phones or internet or video game or whatever. Taji has a few.
PX = Post Exchange
a store. they sell a little bit of everything. in the navy and marines its called an NX or BX, Navy Exchange or Base Exchange. A company called AAFES runs it (Army and Airforce Exchange Service) for the AF and Army The one is Taji is pretty big. Not as nice as the one in Camp Victory (Liberty now)
a place where soldiers or civilians working for the government could go and rent a dvd or video game or board game or internet or whatever. You sign in and have a certain amount of time to use the phones or internet or video game or whatever. Taji has a few.
PX = Post Exchange
a store. they sell a little bit of everything. in the navy and marines its called an NX or BX, Navy Exchange or Base Exchange. A company called AAFES runs it (Army and Airforce Exchange Service) for the AF and Army The one is Taji is pretty big. Not as nice as the one in Camp Victory (Liberty now)
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They're going to do some statpadding.TeamZephyr wrote:
You shoot them then stitch them up, nice work.
You must inform me of more of these acronyms (that's what they're called right?) to use in ma bookGunSlinger OIF II wrote:
Morale, Welfare and Recreation = MWR
a place where soldiers or civilians working for the government could go and rent a dvd or video game or board game or internet or whatever. You sign in and have a certain amount of time to use the phones or internet or video game or whatever. Taji has a few.
PX = Post Exchange
a store. they sell a little bit of everything. in the navy and marines its called an NX or BX, Navy Exchange or Base Exchange. A company called AAFES runs it (Army and Airforce Exchange Service) for the AF and Army
Thanks. Isn't it easier to say all that instead?GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
Morale, Welfare and Recreation = MWR
a place where soldiers or civilians working for the government could go and rent a dvd or video game or board game or internet or whatever. You sign in and have a certain amount of time to use the phones or internet or video game or whatever. Taji has a few.
PX = Post Exchange
a store. they sell a little bit of everything. in the navy and marines its called an NX or BX, Navy Exchange or Base Exchange. A company called AAFES runs it (Army and Airforce Exchange Service) for the AF and Army The one is Taji is pretty big. Not as nice as the one in Camp Victory (Liberty now)
holy shit man, if you only knew how much the Army loves its acronyms.M.O.A.B wrote:
You must inform me of more of these acronyms (that's what they're called right?) to use in ma bookGunSlinger OIF II wrote:
Morale, Welfare and Recreation = MWR
a place where soldiers or civilians working for the government could go and rent a dvd or video game or board game or internet or whatever. You sign in and have a certain amount of time to use the phones or internet or video game or whatever. Taji has a few.
PX = Post Exchange
a store. they sell a little bit of everything. in the navy and marines its called an NX or BX, Navy Exchange or Base Exchange. A company called AAFES runs it (Army and Airforce Exchange Service) for the AF and Army
Wiki's got a list of them like, but don't know if it was all of them.GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
holy shit man, if you only knew how much the Army loves its acronyms.M.O.A.B wrote:
You must inform me of more of these acronyms (that's what they're called right?) to use in ma bookGunSlinger OIF II wrote:
Morale, Welfare and Recreation = MWR
a place where soldiers or civilians working for the government could go and rent a dvd or video game or board game or internet or whatever. You sign in and have a certain amount of time to use the phones or internet or video game or whatever. Taji has a few.
PX = Post Exchange
a store. they sell a little bit of everything. in the navy and marines its called an NX or BX, Navy Exchange or Base Exchange. A company called AAFES runs it (Army and Airforce Exchange Service) for the AF and Army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U. … xpressions
Do you have to learn all of these?
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TLA = Three Letter Acronyms
FTW!
And don't worry GunSlinger and lowing...I was able to follow a long just fine.
FTW!
And don't worry GunSlinger and lowing...I was able to follow a long just fine.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
A lot of those things Ive only learned as acronyms. I never knew ALICE stood for anything.M.O.A.B wrote:
Wiki's got a list of them like, but don't know if it was all of them.GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
holy shit man, if you only knew how much the Army loves its acronyms.M.O.A.B wrote:
You must inform me of more of these acronyms (that's what they're called right?) to use in ma book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U. … xpressions
Do you have to learn all of these?
The one here in Taji has everything you need, as long as all you need is cigarettes, weed eater string, dog and cat repellent, 10 speed racing bikes, oh and thick bomber jackets with "Camp Taji" written on them. Did I mention that last week we had a heat index of 138 frickin' degrees and there ain't a smooth piece of road here suitable for a racing bike?GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
Morale, Welfare and Recreation = MWR
a place where soldiers or civilians working for the government could go and rent a dvd or video game or board game or internet or whatever. You sign in and have a certain amount of time to use the phones or internet or video game or whatever. Taji has a few.
PX = Post Exchange
a store. they sell a little bit of everything. in the navy and marines its called an NX or BX, Navy Exchange or Base Exchange. A company called AAFES runs it (Army and Airforce Exchange Service) for the AF and Army The one is Taji is pretty big. Not as nice as the one in Camp Victory (Liberty now)
But if you are picky and hard to please or just want to be difficult, the Taji PX will constantly run outta everything else.
Yup, there were a few signs around it. All of the fast food trailers survived the fire though. I think I am in the same pad as you were, right across the street from the back side of the PX?GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
no shit????? wow. I remember when they built that one to replace the half a dozen or so that were spread all along the base. It was a big deal for the FOB. It was built a few weeks before that big ass difac youre probably eating in, along with the walma...PX and the subway/burger king/pizza hut food court. My trailer was the very first one north that you see walking north from the PX compound, right in the corner of the pad. the god damn motor pool was 1 mile away and I had to walk that shit full battle rattle at least 8 or 9 times a day sometimes just to get ready to go out on patrol. thats some shit about that haji shop, but even the fact that you refer to it as the bizzar proves that you are most definately there. Thats not something you could learn to call it by on google, as i recall, there was a sign that said that right?lowing wrote:
Yeah, no shit, what the are those pools all about???GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
the Tigris river is to the east of where your at, right across the street from the gate, like RIGHT across the street. Only its on the Iraqi side of taji, so youre a few kilometers away. Im almost certain I know which pad your at. Without risking OPSEC, you work with aviation right?
I could tell you some interesting things about that FOB and what it was before we showed up if you wanna know. Give you a hint, stay away from those vast pools of still water that seem to form out of nowhere. at least there were a lot of those when i was there.
Yeah, over here working aviation, but our pad is right behind the PX. The MWR is acroos the street and in front of the PX, we are behind it. By the way the Haji "Bizzar" in the PX compound burnt to the ground about 2 weeks ago. Dunno if any of that was up and running when you were here., but caught fire and went up in flames. Stood outside the hooch and watched it burn.
keep that focus narrow, only mind the details you prefer.
I think they keep most civilians in the central pad where they have the key issuing facility. the mayors office (i think thats what they called it).lowing wrote:
Yup, there were a few signs around it. All of the fast food trailers survived the fire though. I think I am in the same pad as you were, right across the street from the back side of the PX?GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
no shit????? wow. I remember when they built that one to replace the half a dozen or so that were spread all along the base. It was a big deal for the FOB. It was built a few weeks before that big ass difac youre probably eating in, along with the walma...PX and the subway/burger king/pizza hut food court. My trailer was the very first one north that you see walking north from the PX compound, right in the corner of the pad. the god damn motor pool was 1 mile away and I had to walk that shit full battle rattle at least 8 or 9 times a day sometimes just to get ready to go out on patrol. thats some shit about that haji shop, but even the fact that you refer to it as the bizzar proves that you are most definately there. Thats not something you could learn to call it by on google, as i recall, there was a sign that said that right?lowing wrote:
Yeah, no shit, what the are those pools all about???
Yeah, over here working aviation, but our pad is right behind the PX. The MWR is acroos the street and in front of the PX, we are behind it. By the way the Haji "Bizzar" in the PX compound burnt to the ground about 2 weeks ago. Dunno if any of that was up and running when you were here., but caught fire and went up in flames. Stood outside the hooch and watched it burn.
yup right there. my trailer was the the one across the very corner facing the PX. That same area was mortared and a soldier died there the day that we arrived. Turns out they had guys in the FOB plotting grids with magellans on the brand new trailers that they knew were going to be freshly occupied for the mortar/rocket attack that followed.
All-purpose, lightweight, individual Carrying EquipmentGunSlinger OIF II wrote:
A lot of those things Ive only learned as acronyms. I never knew ALICE stood for anything.M.O.A.B wrote:
Wiki's got a list of them like, but don't know if it was all of them.GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
holy shit man, if you only knew how much the Army loves its acronyms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U. … xpressions
Do you have to learn all of these?
A Language Information Communication Environment
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ruck sack sounds more masculine.
Or just "pack"? That new ILBE is heavy as shit. Anyway, it's good to hear about Iraq stories. I'm still looking forward to my first deployment, which is undetermined at this time.GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
ruck sack sounds more masculine.
Pfffttt...GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
ruck sack sounds more masculine.
Grab your shit.
Now that is man talk little girls.
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After receiving treatment, I think maybe that insurgent will think twice about attacking us next time. Thats what its all about, isnt it? Winning the hearts and minds.
I dont fully support the war, but everyday I'm begining to grow more and more skeptical about the medias coverage of the war. Instead of providing an unbiased report and letting viewers decide their own opinion, assholes like Brian Williams will suddenly act depressed and sad whenever the word "Iraq" or "middle east" is mentioned. Its all BS. They know the public, for the most part, is against the war, so suddenly they act anti-war as well, so years from now, people will look back and say "NBC news was on our side all along".
Its just a popularity contest, really. The mainstream news only exists to tell people what they want to hear. If we were fighting a more popular war, the news would be filled of stories of us treating enemy combatants in aid stations.
I dont fully support the war, but everyday I'm begining to grow more and more skeptical about the medias coverage of the war. Instead of providing an unbiased report and letting viewers decide their own opinion, assholes like Brian Williams will suddenly act depressed and sad whenever the word "Iraq" or "middle east" is mentioned. Its all BS. They know the public, for the most part, is against the war, so suddenly they act anti-war as well, so years from now, people will look back and say "NBC news was on our side all along".
Its just a popularity contest, really. The mainstream news only exists to tell people what they want to hear. If we were fighting a more popular war, the news would be filled of stories of us treating enemy combatants in aid stations.
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?pi … 3#p1666253M.O.A.B wrote:
I've seen the information that went with this video originally, the soldier who got shot in the video managed to find and shoot the sniper and then he helped him with medical aid.
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?doc … ;plindex=0
!!!!!
Wait, a fire fight with an Apache?
Nice.
Nice.
Close, it is the Mayor's Cell.GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
I think they keep most civilians in the central pad where they have the key issuing facility. the mayors office (i think thats what they called it).lowing wrote:
Yup, there were a few signs around it. All of the fast food trailers survived the fire though. I think I am in the same pad as you were, right across the street from the back side of the PX?GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
no shit????? wow. I remember when they built that one to replace the half a dozen or so that were spread all along the base. It was a big deal for the FOB. It was built a few weeks before that big ass difac youre probably eating in, along with the walma...PX and the subway/burger king/pizza hut food court. My trailer was the very first one north that you see walking north from the PX compound, right in the corner of the pad. the god damn motor pool was 1 mile away and I had to walk that shit full battle rattle at least 8 or 9 times a day sometimes just to get ready to go out on patrol. thats some shit about that haji shop, but even the fact that you refer to it as the bizzar proves that you are most definately there. Thats not something you could learn to call it by on google, as i recall, there was a sign that said that right?
yup right there. my trailer was the the one across the very corner facing the PX. That same area was mortared and a soldier died there the day that we arrived. Turns out they had guys in the FOB plotting grids with magellans on the brand new trailers that they knew were going to be freshly occupied for the mortar/rocket attack that followed.
We had a rocket hit about 60 yards from us in the lot between us and the Warrior Chapel ( if ya remember it). Sent our asses running for the bunkers, scared the evern livin' shit outta us.