1 month down, 3 to go....

It's been a month and all is well. No Indirect Fire (IDF) attacks in a while. The weather is cooler here. It gets down to about 65 or so at night and about 85 - 90 during the day. Some days a little warmer than others depending on the cloud cover. My hooch is right next to a firing range which isn't so bad except when they fire the .50 cal. Those are just a tad loud. :)
We also just happen to be under a helicopter flight path during certain times and they like to come in really low. Fortunately that doesn't last long and so far I've been able to sleep right through them. BTW, if I didn't mention it before, I work night shift.
Once I go off shift we'll either go to the range, go to the gym, or go run errands to other parts of the base and to other camps adjacent to here. We are actually at Camp Syverson and not directly on Balad AB but we use Balad as most folks have heard of that one and can relate to it.
A lot of these camps change names as new groups take over for their rotation. They also rename them for fallen heros who were assigned to the camp. Such is the case for our camp. Here you can read about him. http://www.militarycity.com/valor/263061.html



Well, I've tried to go though my emails and answer a lot of questions that have come up a lot. Hope this covers some of them.

Also, new short video of us driving around at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6654236872298349126&hl=en

If any of you have any other questions please email me and I'll answer if I can.

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Another week or so down

Most of y'all know that it was a tough week last week. It's pretty quiet over all here but we did lose one of our own. Please say a prayer for his family and the others carrying on without him.

http://www.militarycity.com/valor/3113632.html

RIP Warrior..

videos uploaded

I've uploaded 2 videos for you all at:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4104460402040970615

and

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5605756219778044948

Enjoy

pictures link

I've divided my photos into albums that can be seen at this link

http://picasaweb.google.com/drjones2005

Enjoy :-)

It's been a while....

I know. But to be honest, since I got back from B'dad to here (Balad), there just hasn't been much going on. Which is a good thing..... except for the boredom. We have an awesome gym, a firing range that's open all day, and lots of movies and music. Can't take a lot of pictures here for security reasons but I've put some generic stuff from the base online. I've been working nightshift, 9pm to 9am local time. We're just monitoring our commo equipment and trying to stay sane just sitting here.

Well, life is good. Enjoy the new photos, they're in the same location as the last ones.

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Photos posted

Ok folks, I've posted photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/drjones2005/PhotosFromOIF?authkey=gdJxlUX2VMo

Enjoy.