The Mission

For the past 10 months, I've been deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn. Since my arrival, people back home have asked me, "What's Iraq like?", "What do you do there?", "Is it scary?", "Are you bored?", etc. By my ninth month here, I finally figured out that the best way to answer these questions was to not answer them at all. Instead, I would show everyone the answers. One picture, taken every hour, to show what I am doing here. If a picture is truly worth a thousand words, then hopefully this blog can explain what is happening in Iraq better than any news article can.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Day 13: Cows in Baghdad?

 

0900: Not much going on this morning, so I decided to take a quick picture of an exit sign... Ooh!

1000: Breakfast/Brunch.... I made a "Bacon Buddy" which is comprised of 4 pieces of bacon on an English muffin.... Healthy? probably not, thats why I ate two...

1100: On our patrol to conduct some meetings, we passed a Federal Policeman at a check point speaking with a civilian.

1200: LT Bunt walking down some rickety stairs following our meeting.

1300: Checking on a canal cleaning project that we are working on... A few weeks ago, this entire canal was filled with garbage and overgrown with vegetation... The canal is slightly better now, but, unlike this guy fishing,  I really wouldn't want to eat any fish from it.. 

1400: Speaking with a local shopkeeper about the canal and his neighborhood. The Federal Police Sergeant behind me is def trying to look tough for this picture.

1500: On the ride back to the JSS, we passed a bunch of cows..... Kinda weird for the middle of the city, but hey.. whatever makes them happy.

1600: Matt helped me out and snapped a quick picture of me sleeping... kinda creepy, but now we're even.

1700: Matt was demonstrating how to identify sexual harassment situations in the workplace... Yikes.

1800: Thats a whole lot of soda.... 

1900: SGT Backstrom laying down the law and putting the XO in his place.... I think Matt is crying in this one.

2000: Good Work Matt.

2100: This is how we celebrate Halloween in Iraq... Wooo its out of control!

2200: Matt's running shoes... If you look closely, you can tell that they are two different shoes, but he swears that he bought them like this. 

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