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...

     Well Hanja kept saying that he was going to write this but since he is way too slow... (The following is a reconstruction of partial memories and other peoples accounts).      No shit there I was... Sitting at my usual stool at The Companion  and drinking Thunderfucks. It may in fact have been a pig party night but I sure as hell don't remember. At some point deep in my cups the autopilot function engaged and I did my usual disappearing a...

     Well Hanja kept saying that he was going to write this but since he is way too slow... (The following is a reconstruction of partial memories and other peoples accounts).      No shit there I was... Sitting at my usual stool at The Companion  and drinking Thunderfucks. It may in fact have been a pig party night but I sure as hell don't remember. At some point deep in my cups the autopilot function engaged and I did my usual disappearing a...

     The gym here is incredible folks. It is in a tent sure but the folks who set it up knew how to utilize space. Frankly it puts the gym back at West Fort Hood to shame. KBR should run everything! P.S. Fuck I am out of shape!

     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...

     I saw the President's inaugural address in a very crowded chow hall during breakfast here in lovely Kuwait. I really couldn't hear much of it due to the level of ambient noise so I had to come and look it up online. For those of you who are curious my research assistant Mr. Google has the transcript located right here. Currency Recitations? No problem. On why we fight outside our own borders during the War of Terror : "For as long as whole regions of 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...

     Well maybe it is the paranoid in me but I can only hope that Little Whip keeps her exit real for a bit and doesn't pull a Mick Foley on me. Her goodbye article and the thread that preceeded it (no link since you can't read the commentary)  were factory model specs for both flame-bait and the right way to say good bye. I for one will miss your input intot he discussion and I think JU is poorer without you.

     If Scott or Charlie happen to revisit the site..... send me an email you assclowns! : ) sgt.greywar@gmail.com