What would happen if we leave Iraq right now

Orson Scott Card (author of Ender's Game) has a few well written words to say about the subject.

Iraq and Kuwait take's

I've uploaded all of the movies I made while deployed forward with HMM-764 here, this all takes place during the summer of 2004. They're sitting around gathering dust, might as well share them. The back story on these movies.Back in 2003 I started out with a fotopage, I had been reading blogs of troops deployed to Iraq and after a bit of peer pressure, started a regular blog, Doc in the Box.

Marines offering assistance

Marines from the 24th MEU are providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in the Philippines following the mudslide that took more then a thousand lives. One of my fellow corpsmen Sandy deployed out with that group, he’s likely trudging through the mud and with a couple hundred Marines, helping where he can. Getty Images has a huge set of pictures (notice many of them are of Marines

Unrest in Iraq

But don't take my word for it, Zeyad does a great job covering the story, so do the guys from Iraq the Model, Riverbend also has a post. They sound scared, which isn’t unusual for someone living in Iraq these days, but there is a hint of panic in these posts. Zeyad says this might be the last straw, everyone is talking about how tense the situation is. Someone out there has been pushing

My connection to the world died one day

A couple of months ago, we had some friends over to play board games, no alcohol was involved. Heather was kicking all of our butts at Pop Culture Trivial Pursuit when one of the guys playing got up to get something to drink out of the kitchen and tripped over my laptop cord.The computer moved a little and the cord popped out, something I’ve done literally hundreds of times. I paid it no

Americans don’t travel much

I consider myself fairly well traveled, but something I’ve noticed when trekking around a foreign country. You don’t run into that many Americans, there’s a lot of Germans, Australians, Japanese but only a few us. What brings this up is that my cousins from Australia are visiting right now. Posted a few pictures here. My cousin Greene gets 6 weeks of paid leave and can take up to half a year of

Two Marine Choppers Crash

Off the coast of Africa, the story says CH-53's, that's what I fly.Not good...

Troubled by mob violence

I am troubled each night I watch the news, when did it become popular for mob violence to make the rules? Is it my imagination or is someone trying to inflame a worldwide civil war between the mobs and every one else that wants to maintain order. My basic problem with protesting is that it’s controlled by mob mentality. There might be a bunch of smart folk in the group but put them together in

Gmails new messenger

Have any of you tried Gmail’s new chat feature? If you’re logged on to your Gmail account, you can now chat with anyone logged on to their Gmail account or Google Talk without a separate program or even opening up a new window. Yahoo also shows you when your contacts are online but you still have to use their messenger to talk. What's cool about this? You don't need to install a program when

The strong shall survive

I never would have thought I would describe a post by Dax as beautiful but he has done a beautiful post about a re-enlistment ceremony that took place at his restaurant. One thing about being a nation at war, people that aren’t willing to put their life on the line for their country aren’t going to be signing up for a second or third tour. It’s 4 and a half years now since 9/11 and the people

drudgery and endless filing

My brain has gone to mush, getting ready for our upcoming trip and crunching numbers. Get home and my feet have been growing roots in the carpet, just haven’t had any good blog ideas or anything of interest happen in my life other then drudgery and endless filing of paperwork.For those that don’t know, I’m getting ready for another trip to the Middle East, for which I’m just another small cog in

Our rides through Thailand

This is the van we hired for our trip and my faithful traveling companionsand this is a boat ride we took up the Mekong between Laos, Thailand and Burma when we stayed at the Golden Home Resort at the Golden Triangle.