Now here is an organization I can get excited about. Adopt-a-sniper "aims" to support our US snipers in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. Recently featured on Fox News, brought to my attention by Little Green Footballs in this article  and disapproved of by Marquette University.  An excerpt :       CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. university in Wisconsin has blocked an attempt by Republican students to raise money for a group ...

     Normally i don't have many nice things to say about protests and displays at Left Coast colleges but I think this one deserves an accolade.   Credit for the title goes to : Right-Thinking.com

     We are finally off of Force Protection lockdown here which is pretty nice (Interceptor Bodyamor is heavy folks) and it has been an uneventful couple of days here post election. Have I done everything I was supposed to today? Called Estrogen Lass (Segovia sucks)? Check Shopped for a few gifts online? Check Updated the SITREP? Check Chem lights in th shitters? Check Watched the Dems implode? Check Chortled over said implosion? Check, check, check, ...

     Well polls closed here a bit ago and reports are hovering at around 72% voter turnout with 22 casualties today in the course of voting (which is about a normal day in Iraq). Looks like the assclowns who wailed and screamed that we should delay the election because the Iraqis would be too scared to vote are once again wrong. Of course that may have something to do with the fact that their arguments were not based in fact but rather in a deep seated desire to se the I...

     Here in the Tactical Operations Center (TOC) we have a TV. Snce I haven't had cable tlevision for about 8 or 9 months this was a novelty at first. Until I disovered that the other folks in the office watch American Idol. This show will evetually give me a fatal brain hemorrage. As it is I am already 20% dumber from having watched a single episode.      Good lord people this is drek of the worst sort! The nations time would be better served by mastu...

     Here in the Space A luxury Hovel and Flop-house there lives a soldier. He was called up from civilian life and sent to Iraq. No problem there right? Wrong.      Through the dual miracles of Personell Command's lightning speed and efficiency he got here 3 months after the unit he was supposed to be activated into had already gone back to the US. That was December 20th and he is still living in the homeless shelter with us a full month later. Will t...

From YahooNews! Some folks I am quite happy to leave as civilians where their idiocy will only cost themselves cash and credibility....      Lets reverse the situation shall we? A crowd of uniformed cadets screaming at a couple of peace protestors and running them off campus under security escort. The ACLU would be on that like stink on shit you bet your ass. The Grey Lady, CNN, CBS, and other MSMs would have their pantied in a wad so tight it would make their vo...

     First off thanks to everyone who showed up at the Company to see me off. I didn't expect it and it meant a lot. Also let me thank everyone here at JU here for their kind words of support and Chiprj for his recent article .      Well as the subtitle so subtly implies I am not yet in Iraq. Timeline? Ok lets... Yesterday 1100 : Since roll call for the flight was not until 1330 I decided to take a shower over at the gym where the ratio of air to air...

*Note    I will be intentionally vague throughout this update to satisfy any OPSEC nazis out there who still think that the opposition hasn't figured out the inprocessing procedure for the half a million troops processed since the run-up the war.      If we had had to rely on the current staff of this camp to win the first Gulf war Saddam Hussein would have had a palace in Mecca right now. Honest to god these guys couldn't find their own ass with both...

     Sorry for the absence but I have been unable to focus long enough to write a damn thing for a while now. Hopefully that will get fixed once I am settled in over in Iraq? Maybe not... We will have to see...   Catch you on the other side of the planet Greywar

Another eye opener :   Mais, plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose   Mais, plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose. (The more things change, the more they seem to remain the same.) Remarkable as the enormous changes in surgical diagnostics and therapeutics have been in the 16 years since the last edition of the Handbook, as noteworthy – and humbling – are what have not changed. Wound ballistics are the same and often injuries are...

     I have expressed little faith in military medicine in the past but as I was perusing the updated Army Guide For Filed Surgery (you never know and I have no fear of cutting to save a life) I came across this quote: “All the circumstances of war surgery thus do violence to civilian concepts of traumatic surgery. The equality of organizational and professional management is the first basic difference. The second is the time lag introduced by the military necessity o...

     While skiming the forums I came across this little gem.  The author of the quoted piece rambles on about the sacrifices that the families of American soldiers face as our war on terror rages on. As I had just gotten off the phone from explaining to my daughter on Christmas eve that Daddy was going to Iraq for a while I had little fucking sympathy for the "sentiments" this raging tool had to offer. Look ass, if you have a better fucking plan post that instead of y...

     Men obviously did not come up with the Christmas tradition of gift wrap. Well at least this man didn't. My attempts at wrapping gifts fare slightly worse than the Boondock Saints' Tourette's afflicted bartender would if he were to read Sylvia Plath poems to a group of Carmelite nuns . I think women learn this skill while still in the womb as even 4 year old girls do a better job of it than this 31 year old man. Merry Christmas.

     Well I got my new DCU's back from Jen's Cleaners today (the Army would grind to a halt without Korean tailor shops) and decided to finally offer up some pictures of me on my blog before I deployed. Enough hiding I say! Let the ugly truth be known! So without further ado... me and my DCU's      Additionally I am amazed at the high quality bnody armor that they gave me. The Intercepter OTV... The vest alone will stop up to 9mm rounds... ...