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Here’s a few Army aphorisms I’ve picked up over the years and tend to live by: 1. “Sleep when you can” – this is something every soldier should live by. Basically, you never know when …

I got a couple of packages yesterday. The mail here is unpredictable, and usually only comes about 1-2 times per week. The average time is around 2 weeks. One package I got was sent 2 August (10 days), the other like 27 …

Not much new here. Today’s my ninth wedding anniversary, so I just wanted to say Happy Anniversary and ‘I love you’ to Michelle. Hanging in there…

A friend of mine from Kent State (hi jen) had one of these cool 550 paracord square braids on her keychain that interested me (a couple of years ago), but she didn’t know how to make it, since it was a gift from …

I learned how to do this from another LT here in Iraq, who said he learned how to do it in the Boy Scouts. I’d seen a few of them on friends’ key chains but they’d been given to them as gifts by folks …

Got to play with an AK-47 earlier this week. It’s got a lot more kick than the M16. It was fun to fire, though.

This article does a good job of summing up what my mission is here in Iraq. The Engineers and EOD…Working Together to Clear Iraq One IED at a Time

My platoon made a trip to a base in Baghdad this weekend to pick up some stuff. It was my first major convoy over here. Everything went pretty smoothly. We ended up leaving a day later than planned since the first day we …

The ArmyTimes published this story/poem that does a good job of describing the feelings and events that go into a convoy/mission for engineers here in Iraq.

The forecast for the next 30 days is a daily low of 95 and highs in the 130s. Going to be the hottest part of the year. It doesn’t really feel as hot now as it did when I first got in-country, but that’s just …