tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59843022011-08-16T13:13:27.477+03:00This is about my daily life here in Baghdad, Iraq as an soldier of the United States Army. My views do not reflect that of the US Military or US GovernmentKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comBlogger1721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-3599235751358854892007-02-10T23:23:00.000+03:002007-02-10T23:44:30.247+03:00

This is alittle off topic, but you should know; I've started to actively write in my blog again. However, don't expect me to write in it like every day of the week. I am doing work AND college now and am doing about 2 hours of studying a night for college, so I almost have no free time these days.This post is about all the saber rattling by Iran and as they're finding out. Iran is supplying

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1163724081706663722006-11-17T03:30:00.000+03:002006-11-17T03:41:21.720+03:00

100+ people kidnapped in broad day light from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS. This is just so outrageous. Someone needs to do something about this, the situation is TOTALLY out of control. I am so furious about this, is this the kind of crap me and my close buddies put our lives on the line for!? I've lost some of my best friends over there,

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1143592560743483362006-03-29T03:13:00.000+03:002006-03-29T03:36:00.806+03:00

Recently I read the book "No True Glory" by Bing West. This book is a detailed telling of the assault on Fallujah by Marines and the US Army. I thought it was very good and I rate it highly along with Black Hawk Down (The book). Now, I've been reading "My Year in Iraq" by Paul Bremer. I'm about 4/5th's through the book and it is really good so far. For someone like me, who has been on the ground

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1131230131921570252005-11-06T01:34:00.000+03:002005-11-06T01:35:31.936+03:00

Lately, I have seen 2 movies which are about both the current war with Iraq and Desert Storm. Both are mostly just about the soldiers and marines who faught there. I saw Jar head last night. It was a decent movie, I would say. I can't really say how accurate the movie is. I think some of it was Hollywood, like the Squad of Marines walking in the desert totally alone. It just doesn't seem right to

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1129429010815154282005-10-16T04:58:00.000+03:002005-10-16T05:16:50.820+03:00

Earlier, the Iraqis went to the polls on a historical vote for their won constitution. It was great to see once again, the Iraqis defying the insurgents and terrorists and making their voices heard, whether it be "Yes" or "No." I hope some good will come of this. Though, more than likely, the violence will not stop. It is getting to the point where the Iraqi Army is nearly ready to take over

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1129350483303846112005-10-15T07:21:00.000+03:002005-10-15T07:28:03.310+03:00

I found a good website from an Arab American. She has alot of interesting views. She is an athiest currently who lives in the USA and is from Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. She goes back and foreth alot so she knows the culture there pretty well of course. So, with what little of an audience that I used to get I hope you guys will spread the word. http://nadz101.blogspot.com

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1128209304184994802005-10-02T02:23:00.000+03:002005-10-02T02:30:45.256+03:00

Soon, I think, though not sure. I am still debating on if I should or should not do this. I may post a section on my blog where I will post many of my pictures I took while I was over in Iraq. I am going to carefully pick each picture to make sure it will not violate OPSEC in ANYWAY that could give the enemy possible intelligence. Mostly, they'll be pictures of me, my friends and our activities

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1125628293900292522005-09-02T06:13:00.000+04:002005-09-03T00:20:06.140+04:00

I want get alittle of subject. I wasn't planning on blogging again until something very significant happened. That has happened and so I am going to write about it.I am DEEPLY saddened and DEEPLY troubled with what I am watching what is happening to New Orleans. This is possibly the worst natural disaster that has ever occurred in the USA. It will takes weeks to fix the flooding, and then even

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1122858849755013702005-08-01T04:44:00.000+04:002005-08-01T05:14:09.763+04:00

I unfortunately wasted an a few minutes of my life to watch "Over There." A new series on FX about US Army Soldiers serving a tour in Iraq. There are a few bad war movies and tv shows, but this one takes the cake. If the inaccuracies they made in this new show was to keep the real enemy from watching and knowing our real tactics, then they did a SUPERB job.The first thing I noticed that was

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1120181212575086002005-07-01T05:16:00.000+04:002005-07-01T05:26:52.583+04:00

This is one of my last posts I will put on my blog. I don't intend to convert this blog to a political blog. It will just stay unchanged for a long time for maybe some historian interested in getting information from soldiers from the front has access to my site.Another blow to the military blog community. A 3 star General approved an "order" that all milbloggers have to tell their chain of

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1119932651862064892005-06-28T08:23:00.000+04:002005-06-28T08:24:11.866+04:00

I am now back in the United States. Finally back on home soil and it feels GREAT. It is so nice being able to goto a public area and not have to wear a kevlar helmet or flak vest. Not only that, it is so much easier to talk to the locals. It is also good to see again all the strong support we have back in the United States. Even if many people don't agree with the war, they at least respect the

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1118998358381244862005-06-17T12:44:00.000+04:002005-06-17T12:52:38.386+04:00

We still have not left yet. It is starting to get even warmer now. It hits about 120 degrees now, and the damn generator keeps going out and in a manner for a few seconds it instantly gets hot in our tent and the AC is really really slow at cooling the place down. It's not like the generator goes out for an hour or so. It keeps failing and start every few minutes. One minute it will be on, then

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1118655498883057572005-06-13T13:18:00.000+04:002005-06-13T14:03:46.106+04:00

Now that my days of Combat patrols and raids ect ect are over. I finally have time to write my personal feelings about Iraq. My first tour over here was definitely easier than this one. Of course, we were just doing raids most of the time and very little patrolling. So, I got plenty of sleep and ate pretty good. On average, we were working from 90-100 hour weeks this tour. I feel like I have aged

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1118585320615216522005-06-12T18:02:00.000+04:002005-06-12T18:08:40.643+04:00

I was working a pretty long stretch. So, I had no chance to get on the computers and write. The reason I finally have time to write? Our tour here in Iraq is up and our replacements have taken over for us. So, now all that is left is to fly home and get on with my life. I have alot planned for when I get out of the Army. I probably won't be out of the Army till later Summer. So, I won't be going

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1117826839299213952005-06-03T23:22:00.000+04:002005-06-03T23:27:19.303+04:00

My ears are still ringing from a fire fight we just had recently. It wasn't too long lasted maybe for only 2 minutes. No Americans got hurt, I don't know if any of the enemy were killed. They were running as we were firing. The funny thing about 5.56mm, the ammo you use for m4 or m16, is I've seen many cases where a guy was shot 4 times or so and barely flinched. So, we may have wounded a few of

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1117616030209869772005-06-01T12:34:00.000+04:002005-06-01T12:53:50.216+04:00

Well, not much has been going on. We are still just as busy as we have been. Recently, we found a VERY dangerous IED. Luckily, we caught it before it blew on an unlucky patrol. It would probably have really messed us up. Our area has been pretty quiet lately. Which is good, but now it seems the enemy has stopped trying to engage us in fire fights and rockets and has moved solely to using IEDs. We

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1117116395123813972005-05-26T17:50:00.001+04:002005-05-26T18:06:35.123+04:00

We have been EXTREMELY BUSY. It takes about a week of work before you are rotated to where you get a day off. So, I cannot post for almost an entire week. I am doing ok. I lost another good friend recently. He will be sorrowly missed. However, no time to dwell on that, we have to keep our heads in the game and stay focused. There will be time to mourn the loss of another brother later. Before, we

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1117116383757878892005-05-26T17:50:00.000+04:002005-05-26T18:06:23.780+04:00

We have been EXTREMELY BUSY. It takes about a week of work before you are rotated to where you get a day off. So, I cannot post for almost an entire week. I am doing ok. I lost another good friend recently. He will be sorrowly missed. However, no time to dwell on that, we have to keep our heads in the game and stay focused. There will be time to mourn the loss of another brother later. Before, we

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1116515059527803942005-05-19T18:50:00.000+04:002005-05-19T19:04:19.533+04:00

Besides the fact that I have been very very busy patrolling the streets of Iraq. Our unit also moved to another location, so only now have I got the chance to write in my blog. Not much has been going on, although some Iraqis grew some big balls and were shooting mortars off in a location just a few blocks from us. Their target was a nearby American base. We took off after them, but they got away

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1116188344864063162005-05-16T00:08:00.000+04:002005-05-16T00:19:04.870+04:00

Well, my free time has been completely obliterated. I'm not working 12 hours, I'm working about 14 hours average, and there is no day off. Our whole platoon is pretty much tasked out, so only a few guys get a day off, and so you can imagine the rotation is long before you get a break. The funny thing about it is, this isn't even bad. I can't complain at all. I've gotten used to this work schedule

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1115878033056729102005-05-12T09:33:00.000+04:002005-05-12T10:07:13.170+04:00

Yesterday an car bomb went off in our area. The target was one of the Bradley's patrolling around the area. Unfortunately, this was an indiscriminate attack. 4 innocent bystanders were hurt and another guy was practically vaporized. Somehow Al-Jazeera was in the area before it happened. I wonder how that could have happened? Fucking terrorists are giving tips to these assholes, so they can be on

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1115463229022404062005-05-07T14:48:00.000+04:002005-05-07T14:53:49.030+04:00

Lately not much has happened. Except, some of our guys in a different platoon who were on patrol got into a hairy fire fight. No Americans were hurt, but a ING soldier got lightly wounded. One thing is for sure, the ING are NOT afraid to pull the trigger. At least we know we can trust these guys, hopefully. They keep insisting and their trainers tell us they are all good men.We recently had the

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1115182518170083722005-05-04T08:53:00.000+04:002005-05-04T10:23:37.113+04:00

I finally got some time to write in my blog. We have been extremely busy over here. Sometimes working 36 hours at a time. So, there is no way I could have wrote before on here. Hopefully this will end soon, but now it looks like no one knows what the fuck is going on. Some speculate we will be working like this till our unit leaves. I have gotten used to it now, so I don't even complain

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1113835659444821512005-04-18T18:27:00.000+04:002005-04-18T18:47:39.446+04:00

I finally got a day off! WOHOO! Lately, we have been working our ass off. Lately it has been about 4 to 5 hours of sleep a night, and almost out in the city twice as long as a normal 8 hour shift. Though, it has been very quiet. Probably that is a testament to all of our hard work lately. I won't be able to probably blog for 3 or 4 more days because of the work schedule.Not much else has been

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1113494663518320622005-04-14T19:48:00.000+04:002005-04-14T20:04:23.516+04:00

I finally got some more time off. I have been working constantly lately, getting on average maybe 5 hours of sleep if I am lucky. We are really pressing hard against the enemy. Not giving him any time to re-group or anything like that.Not long ago my buddies were hit by a suicide car bomb. None of our guys were hurt by the grace of God. Pieces of the suicide bomber's body were all over the place.

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1113158657776576652005-04-10T22:29:00.000+04:002005-04-10T22:44:17.776+04:00

There has been alot of crazy shit going on over here. So, I have been way too busy working rather than having enough time and getting on here to blog about how everything is going for me. Sorry to those who are disappointed in me not being able to post more often.Today it topped out in the high 90s. It was pretty damn hot. Also the amount of times we are going out is forcing us to get much less

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1112640285777865642005-04-04T22:26:00.000+04:002005-04-04T22:44:45.776+04:00

Not much has been going on for me. I read in the news about an attack on Abu Ghraib prison by Al-Qaeda. Other than that, the news has been dominated by the death of the Pope. It really doesn't bother me at all, since I am not a Catholic. The guy was over 80 years old, it's sad, but he's lived a long life.The weather is still pretty warm, it will only get even more hot outside. It sucks, but it's

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1112524206576514842005-04-03T14:27:00.000+04:002005-04-03T14:30:06.576+04:00

All hell seemed to have broken loose yesterday. There were many fire fights and attacks going on all throughout the day. Some of our guys got stuck out for almost 24 hours straight. A car bomb went off taking out one of the armored vehicles. They had mass casualties, but only one that had to be flown out. It's alittle surprising the news hasn't covered this at all. Plus a bomb killed some

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1112438497896554972005-04-02T14:36:00.000+04:002005-04-02T14:41:37.896+04:00

I just received a care package from my family. I got all kinds of nice things. Supplements and all for working out and some movies that I ordered from the History Channel that were sent to my home and then forwarded here. I ordered "Iraq War: Battling the Insurgents" from there. I got to watch it yesterday, it was decent alot of the stuff I already know. I'm a big history buff, so I always like

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1112269513967952662005-03-31T14:24:00.000+03:002005-03-31T14:45:13.970+03:00

Not much has been going on for me. I have been doing pretty good. However, having to stand out in full battle rattle for 4 hours at a time checking ID cards and searching Hajjis all day in 90+ degree heat sucks. Since we are an Infantryman, I don't get to work with women very often. Almost never, so this job has it's own perks. You get to see some of the hot officers and sometimes a few good

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1112012270613518612005-03-28T15:05:00.000+03:002005-03-29T14:38:28.033+03:00

Not much has been going on for me lately. I am now doing this detail where I get to check people's ID cards. Yay, I get to be an Infantryman/Military Police. I can't complain though, it's way better than having rockets and mortars being fired at you. I haven't even been here long and I've earned my Combat Infantryman's Badge numerous times already in just the few weeks we have been doing patrols.

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1111956029195090432005-03-27T23:33:00.000+03:002005-03-27T23:40:29.196+03:00

I get to have some involuntary R&R for about a week. I have been picked to be put on a detail that will prevent me from going outside the wire. Which is good and is also bad. I wish I could be out there with the guys, but I also am glad for a week I wont be getting shot at or mortars landing close by. I have earned my Combat Infantryman Badge several occasions already and I haven't even been here

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1111867888771890122005-03-26T23:08:00.000+03:002005-03-26T23:11:28.773+03:00

A quick update. The power grid seems to be getting better here and more public works projects seems to be getting underway. Hopefully they're now starting to realize that if they can improve their living conditions, it may help stop some of the fighting.

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1111661745740926812005-03-24T13:52:00.000+03:002005-03-24T13:55:45.743+03:00

Things are getting alittle interesting over here. Not in a good way either. While out in our area of operations in Baghdad. Nearby, a Bradley and a few other armored vehicles got ambushed yesterday. It was first hit with an IED and a fire fight broke out for about a minute. I only saw the puff of smoke from the IED from a distance, the rest, I could only hear the sound of small arms and the sound

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1111236905554016202005-03-19T15:52:00.000+03:002005-03-19T15:55:05.556+03:00

A few days ago was pretty exciting. Alot of activity in our area where we operate. Not much I can really say, but the whole day seemed awefully quiet. Until, we had an RPG or some kind of rocket launched at us. Luckily, it missed us, it was too close to sit around and try to figure out where it came from. So, we didn't bother sticking around. So, now the whole squad, which has many new guys in it

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1111066132952852852005-03-17T16:23:00.000+03:002005-03-17T16:28:52.953+03:00

We have been pretty busy lately. That is why I have not been able to really update this site. I have a hard enough time as it is just writing letters to my family.The weather is pretty nice now. About a high 60 low 70 average. That will change once April comes around. Then it will start to warm up alot more. I dread the thought of wearing body armor and everything else during the hot months. When

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1110724768580531192005-03-13T17:27:00.000+03:002005-03-13T17:39:28.580+03:00

Lately, not much has been going on for us. However, recently we had mortars land about 300-400 meters from us. We weren't the target, it was an American base that was nearby. No one got hurt luckily. Later on that day, we took sniper fire from a building. No one got hurt either. We immediately moved and started searching nearby houses to see if we could catch the bastard. Too bad he got away,

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1110576892027349082005-03-12T00:32:00.000+03:002005-03-12T00:34:52.030+03:00

Not much has been going on that is really worth reporting about lately. I've been enjoying my short time off. It shouldn't be as crazy as a work schedule as it was before.It has been raining like crazy over here for the past 3-4 days. It has rained more here than I think I've seen it rain in such a short period of time back in the states. The streets are flooded all over and it's impossible not

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1110213808813788472005-03-07T19:40:00.000+03:002005-03-07T19:43:28.813+03:00

I would just like to write a quick tribute to the American people in my short time off. It is really amazing to me how much support we are getting. I don't think in any time in history maybe in WWII that the American people cared so much for it's soldiers. It's intolerable for Americans to think of their soldiers riding around unprotected. I'm really proud of all you guys. It is really nice to

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1110108614375885042005-03-06T14:14:00.000+03:002005-03-06T14:30:14.376+03:00

We have been very very busy going out and conducting patrols through our area in Iraq. The kid still wave at us and give us thumps up. They even put on sunglasses that were handed to them previously by US Soldiers to look cool in front of us.A few nights ago was my first time since being here a second time we were attacked. We stopped in a neighborhood asking people if they've been hearing and

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1109073938556564132005-02-22T15:04:00.000+03:002005-02-23T20:27:55.996+03:00

Another BORING day here in Iraq. But, boring is bliss for me. I am not in a hurry to get shot at. Just laying around watching DVDs and working out at the gym. Got to drive around in new Hummers that are armored more than the regular up armors. I actually like driving this one more than the lighter ones. It feels more comfortable to drive. The seats aren't bad either, unlike the older ones, they

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1108916376486693312005-02-20T19:16:00.000+03:002005-02-20T19:19:36.486+03:00

Not much has been going on for me lately. Just sitting around watching DVDs and reading any news paper I can get my hands on. The chow hall is NICE, better than the one on post back home. Food is sometimes better too. Since I had nothing really to do, I thoroughly cleaned my M4. That made time go by faster, plus listening to popular music while doing it. I wish I had some Break-free Powder Blast

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1108757044942989792005-02-18T23:02:00.000+03:002005-02-18T23:04:04.943+03:00

I finally am back in Iraq after being away LESS than a year. Though I'm in the slightly different location I was last time, I'm still in Baghdad. Much has changed since I was here last time. Sadr City is no longer a bad neighorhood like it was last time I was here. It's one of the best areas in Baghdad to be. We kicked their butts pretty hard and Sistani told them to not listen to Sadr, and so

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1108050898422010142005-02-10T18:53:00.000+03:002005-02-10T18:54:58.423+03:00

More time has passed and not much has happened. Except, we got extended alittle longer to train alittle bit more. Otherwise, I would be up north right now. Which again, I see as a good thing. It's been hell trying to get in contact with my family lately. Recently, both times I've gone no one was home. Though, I contacted my mother the first attempt when I got here. Still, just watching movies and

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1107614157760324812005-02-05T17:34:00.000+03:002005-02-05T17:35:57.760+03:00

I have arrived in Kuwait and have been here for little more than a week. It feels like I've been here for a month. It has been very boring and all I've been doing really is watching movies on my mini DVD player. I also have some music to keep me busy. I'm pretty cut off from the rest of the world. I can get on the computer and phones, but I don't want to wait 1 hour just to get on the computer. I

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1105917791190450652005-01-17T02:22:00.000+03:002005-01-17T02:23:11.190+03:00

I will be unable to write anymore entries into my blog a week or two. However, When I am in Iraq, I will resume working on my blog. So, unfortunately, you will have to keep visiting my site every now and then to check up on it.

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1105545935190586732005-01-12T19:04:00.000+03:002005-01-12T19:05:35.190+03:00

Recently I received news of a buddy of mine just passed away while in Iraq. It is depressing, but there will be a time later on to feel bad. Right now, it's important to focus on the mission at hand and to make sure the new guys (rookies or cherries) come home safe and sound. I don't necessarily worry about my own safety, because now as a senior member of the group, it is my job to look out for

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1105150241453965302005-01-08T04:53:00.000+03:002005-01-08T05:13:05.676+03:00

It's come to my attention or at least it would appear that Al-Jazeera, whom I equate as the Arab version of the Fox News Channel. All they do is spread filthy propaganda and promote violence in my opinion. They interview only people that would say stuff like the US is an empire taking over the world. That type of statement is outrageous. The only land the USA has under it's control is herself and

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1104721460730920772005-01-03T05:52:00.000+03:002005-01-03T06:10:06.826+03:00

I'm tired of hearing on the news. "This is our 9/11." This horrific act of nature is nothing like 9/11. It has caused far more sorrow then 9/11. 9/11 was an attack on America. This Tsunami is caused by nature, the attacks on September 11 were man made. I gets really anoyying when people try to compare this to September 11. They are like comparing apples to oranges. Completely different, but both

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1104437623286746602004-12-30T22:53:00.000+03:002004-12-30T23:13:43.293+03:00

An unfathomable tragedy happened on a biblical scale. 110,000 and still counting have passed away due to this horrible event. I remember looking at some of the footage and being horrified as if I was watching a horror movie. Something like that would turn very brave men into cowards. It has even been stated that the numbers will probably reach higher and could double from disease alone. Now they

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1103822304571693042004-12-23T20:01:00.000+03:002004-12-23T20:18:24.570+03:00

It seems now that instead of being a rocket that hit the chow hall tent, it was a suicide bomber inside the tent. When I first read the story, it made my blood boil. I came to the quick conclusion however, that it was probably a very lucky shot and was bound to eventually happen. Then, it turns out to be a damn suicide bomber. So, an Iraqi being brought into the camp was not checked by security.

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1101710294796344562004-11-29T09:15:00.000+03:002004-11-29T09:38:14.796+03:00

This weekend was great, going back home and seeing my family again. You think it will be easy to leave, and then when the moment finally comes where you have to leave and go back to the base it is really hard emotionally. Same thing when I got to go on R&R leave from Iraq. I came back and was really depressed for about a week in Iraq until I re-adjusted. I was really upset when I got stuck in

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1101060343145817212004-11-21T20:49:00.000+03:002004-11-22T02:57:41.926+03:00

It has become very clear to me that I was in error to quickly judge the Marine in Fallujah. It was probably anger that motivated me to do it, because even if the Marines were defending themselves it would be received negatively by many Arabs as murder. Knowing what I now know about in the video the Marines were discussing how the guy was faking dead. Then the Marine came up and shot him. Maybe, I

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1100907704002055372004-11-20T02:31:00.000+03:002004-11-20T02:41:44.003+03:00

I finally got contact with my buddy that I graduated through basic training with today. He is currently serving with the 1st Cavalry division in Baghdad, Iraq. The last time I talked to him, the day before he was on a patrol where they came under attack and he got lightly injured by a hand grenade that was tossed at him. He told me it hurt like hell. After that, we hadn't talked in months. Now I

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1100820989578428352004-11-19T01:52:00.000+03:002004-11-20T07:48:14.603+03:00

Today we conducted a 21 mile road march. It was a definite mental challenge. Our company had only 1 guy who fell out of the road march and had to take a ride back in a truck. I wasn't all that tired, just my feet hurt and my legs muscles hurt from earlier playing touch football a few days ago. I made sure this time I brought some snickers with me to help give extra energy during the march.

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1100711512807047592004-11-17T19:50:00.000+03:002004-11-17T20:11:52.806+03:00

I'd like to personally as an American and as an American soldier to apologize to the Iraqi people for such an unprofessional and disturbing act committed by the US Marines in Fallujah. When acts like this are committed it hurts us all. In previous wars this happens alot. I remember watching tv of Vietnam veterans in a camp full of wounded Americans, the Vietcong overran it, and killed all the

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1100115906178677362004-11-10T20:42:00.000+03:002004-11-10T23:03:35.926+03:00

I watch TV about the assault in Fallujah. Little resistance, the city is mostly deserted. Disgusting and sickening hostage slaughter houses have been discovered in northern Fallujah. That news really gets to me. I get very angry when I think about it. It makes me want to put a bullet through the head of every single terrorist and give them as much remorse and they showed for their victims trying

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1099921881042367392004-11-08T16:29:00.000+03:002004-11-08T16:51:21.043+03:00

One thing you notice in Iraq patrolling the streets is alot of other units that are patrolling as well use light or medium machine guns mounted on their vehicles. M249 SAW and the M240 Bravo, which are good weapons, but is it something you really want to patrol around in say a place like Baghdad? I'm a firm believer in bigger guns means less of us good guys getting killed. We patrolled around

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1099674042402993962004-11-05T19:59:00.000+03:002004-11-05T20:00:42.403+03:00

President Bush has been re-elected to be our President for the next 4 years. Luckily, without all the problems of what happened in 2000. Now, hopefully we can agree that Bush had the popular vote and is the actual President. There are many things I don't agree with that Bush believes in, but I take it personal when people have the audacity to say the American public is stupid for re-electing him.

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1098981666492553042004-10-28T19:40:00.000+03:002004-10-28T19:41:06.493+03:00

More Iraqi soldiers have been taken hostage and killed. Except this time a different terrorist group claimed responsibility. This is pretty sad, because we've helped to train some of these guys. It is really frustrating to know that someone has to be doing an inside job on this. I think it is time for the Iraqi Army to probably be able to move around even off duty with fire arms. The killing of

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1098387876539710012004-10-21T22:43:00.000+03:002004-10-21T22:44:36.540+03:00

Yesterday we received the news we already knew that was coming. Our Battalion commander that is training our two companies while the rest is away, has told us that we have received official orders to go back to Iraq. The time we are to re-deploy to Iraq is coming up pretty soon. For OPSEC reasons obviously, I can't say when, where, or what we are going to do when we get there. The bad thing is,

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1097776964518269762004-10-14T20:13:00.000+03:002004-10-14T21:02:44.516+03:00

The insurgents have successfully penetrated the heavily fortified Green zone and set off a suicide bomb. Personally, I've been in the green zone a bunch of times. The military calls it another name besides the green zone, but just for opsec reasons, I am not going to say that on here just in case. I don't see how it's been able to remain so secure for awhile without anyone getting a bomb through.

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1096734929050551982004-10-02T19:08:00.000+03:002004-10-02T19:35:29.050+03:00

I haven't been able to write much because of the intense training we have been up too. We just got back from a mission where we had to do an assault on a compound filled with buildings. I got to be one of the machine gunners who would shoot at the buildings while the other guys assaulted it. From 600 yards away, me and my buddy who was a m240 gunner, we put down extremely accurate fire onto the

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1095808317407807912004-09-22T02:58:00.000+04:002004-09-22T03:11:57.406+04:00

I for one am getting tired of new organizations sugar coating the name of these ruthless barbarians. Why do they call these groups conducting suicide bombing and killing hostages insurgents? Why don't they just call them what they are? Terrorists plain and simple. Lets forget about the whole argument about whether there were terrorists in Iraq before the war. There seems to be a real fundamental

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1095611808335299412004-09-19T20:26:00.000+04:002004-09-19T20:36:48.336+04:00

Yesterday, was a huge upset for me. I lost the chance to get a EIB forever. The way EIB is earned, is you must complete at 12 mile road march within 3 hours. You have to find 3 points in the woods on a map using nothing but a map, pro-tracter and compase. You must also find 3 points in the dark in the woods only using a compass, no flash light. Once that is done, you have to do tests were you get

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1095006876328757192004-09-12T19:50:00.000+04:002004-09-12T20:34:36.330+04:00

Yesterday was the anniversary of that horrible day. I watched some of it on tv, about what was going on at the WTC site to remember that day. Watching some of the family members call off their loved ones name, it got me choked up a few times. It's funny how you think you have moved on, but when they have this anniversary, you realize it's still very much apart of you. I remember telling my buddy

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1094747275634421292004-09-09T20:03:00.000+04:002004-09-10T20:10:06.843+04:00

Yesterday we had the grueling 12 mile road march that had to be completed in 3 hours. It was a perfect day for it too, cloudy and a nice breeze and relatively cool. I came in 7th place out of about 80 guys. I felt really good about myself, but my legs and hips were very sore, surprising my feet didn't hurt too much. I didn't try to race to beat everyone, because there isn't really any point to it

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1094223742852716442004-09-03T18:44:00.000+04:002004-09-03T19:02:22.853+04:00

100 or so dead bodies were tragically found after raid by Russian commandos on a school. "Rebels" took control of a school and held teachers, parents and children hostage. This is one of the most cowardly acts of terrorism I can think of. I guess this sort stuff happens in Iraq too, but I can't confirm that of course. What kind of people would do something like this? These groups of rebels aren't

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1093490675156781832004-08-26T07:05:00.000+04:002004-08-26T07:24:35.156+04:00

Lately I've been pretty busy doing EIB lanes. Completely a bunch of different tasks you have to complete in a certian amount of time in a certain order. I noticed about 3 people today that I haven't seen since basic training. That was pretty interesting. Probably from bad habits you get from being used to doing things you're own way, I had some trouble with getting the MK-19 Automatic grenade

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1092920449089110462004-08-19T16:52:00.000+04:002004-08-19T17:00:49.090+04:00

Luckily we got a really cool CO and we came back from the field a day early. For the first day out in the field doing CQ, my job was working with a few guys at the Ammo point. Loading magazines with rounds and giving ammo out to people. It was extremely boring. While, the rest of the company was out training in government built buildings killing pretend Hajji. After doing that for a day, I

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1092657537683795042004-08-16T15:55:00.000+04:002004-08-16T15:58:57.683+04:00

Today, this morning we are going to the field till Thursday. We will doing CQB (Close Quarter Battle) site live fire. A few buildings we enter using live ammo and enemy targets that pop up that we have to shoot. As much as I love training for this stuff, right now, I'm totally the most unmotivated person right now to go out for 4 days of doing this. Hopefully it doesn't rain on us too much.

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1092533466831464562004-08-15T05:15:00.000+04:002004-08-15T05:31:06.833+04:00

Peace talks again, unsurprisingly fails. This time, Muqtada al-Sadr's top negotiator said the deal had almost been reached until interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi personally struck it down. He said it was a conspiracy to commit a big massacre. The US Military inside Najaf lined up to get ready to assault the Militia again, but then Allawi called it off. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1092176389759725302004-08-11T02:06:00.000+04:002004-08-11T16:52:47.143+04:00

Here is one of my entries into my journal while I was in Iraq. I've really been not saying much about what I did over there because much of it was classified, so alot of what I wrote in the past was about my opinions of the war and some of the minor events that took place on a daily basis. This is just a glimpse of the other stuff we had to do. Journal: 24 June 03 Another hot ass day in

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1092141451502715732004-08-10T16:08:00.000+04:002004-08-10T16:37:31.503+04:00

The EIB (Expert Infantry Badge) course has been re-opened. Last time it was cancelled because the Brigade got orders to go to Iraq a few months after we arrived back in the States from being in Iraq. So, while the Brigade is gone, another Brigade that just returned from action overseas is now starting up it's own EIB and they have allowed our company to participate in it. So, now we have to do

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1091848664028700422004-08-07T07:00:00.000+04:002004-08-07T07:17:44.026+04:00

Surprise, Surprise. Muqtada al-Sadr has started to be militant again, and pretend he wanted to renew the cease fire. I have asked this before, but is anyone really surprised by this? US Helicopters pounded a cemetery with Iraqi insurgents. At least we kinda don't feel alone in this fight, because the Iraqi interim government has to deal with this band of hoodlums as well. They just need to arrest

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1091400935681938642004-08-02T02:34:00.000+04:002004-08-02T02:55:35.680+04:00

Our training level seems to only be increasing. We just got back from a 2 day excursion in the field. The whole point of it was, to train for CQB (Close Quater Battle). From 11am in the morning till 10pm at night, we were training in empty building complexes and other urban environments. Of course, we got a little break in between to chow down on an MRE and relax for alittle bit, but then, we

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1091067184111696162004-07-29T05:59:00.000+04:002004-07-29T06:13:04.110+04:00

Today I took the trouble of going to a politics chat room on the Internet. This one seemed to have alot of people who do not live in America or are just plain ignorant. Now, it's one thing to dislike a politician, but it's quite another to sit there and call the United States a fascist regime. I told the people inside I was a United States soldier who served in OIF from march 03 to march 04. They

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1090891774672217032004-07-27T05:19:00.000+04:002004-07-27T05:29:34.673+04:00

Today was a nice a sunny and hot day. The M249 SAW gunners and M240 Bravo gunners had to go to the range and zero and qualify with their weapons. I had alittle rough time doing this, we all have our bad shooting days. Even the best shooters in the world have days where it seems they can do everything perfect and the bullets wont go where they want them too. Somehow, we ran out of SAW ammunition,

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1090703776437779052004-07-25T01:11:00.000+04:002004-07-25T02:39:12.750+04:00

This is a link to a very very  funny flash movie that was made. It has Bush and Kerry singing "This land is your land" and trading insults all the way through the whole movie. No matter who you like, this movie is hilarious, I showed it to other guys in the Army and they loved it too. I wish they could put this on national television as just an amusing commercial. We hear so much negative in the

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1090503566261285442004-07-22T16:30:00.000+04:002004-07-23T02:57:10.756+04:00

Our new Company Commander is a hard core guy. He was originally an NCO, and reached all the way to E-6 before becoming an officer. The unit he was in before was the 75th Ranger Regiment. Which is an elite infantry unit. It's a regiment that are infantryman, except they train more and alittle harder than regular army units and are alittle tougher on their soldiers, discipline wise. They have to be

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1090185520729269572004-07-19T01:11:00.000+04:002004-07-19T01:18:40.730+04:00

A house in Fallujah purportedly being used as a safe house sheltering Abu Musab al-Zarqawi cronies. The air strike was approved by the Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. There is nothing that would please me more than to have that son of a bitch, al-Zarqawi, blown to kingdom smithereens. He DOES not serve the interest of Iraqis. His whole strategy is to kill as many innocent people as

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1089947034297183112004-07-16T07:03:00.000+04:002004-07-16T07:03:54.296+04:00

Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said there is going to be more violence in Iraq. Wow, thanks for clearing that up buddy. The Iraqi government has been passing emergency laws to fight these insurgents. Surprisingly, the new Iraqi government has been fiercely fighting the insurgents since they transfer of power. Their own intelligence seems to also be pretty accurate. Me and my friend Zeyad who I met

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1089687592870624212004-07-13T06:59:00.000+04:002004-07-13T06:59:52.870+04:00

Manila has now given into the growing sentiment going on in it's own country to leave the United States. I didn't even know these guys were in the "Coalition of the Willing." So, now a hostage is being released. This sounds like a victory for the terrorists. Is there any nation that exists today that has the balls to fight something worth fighting for? Frankly, seeing that the Iraqis seem more

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1089589338220300712004-07-12T03:41:00.000+04:002004-07-12T03:42:18.220+04:00

I finally arrived back on "post" last night just in time to log back in at Battalion. I had quiet an interesting journey I guess you could say. Everything was fine, from the drive from Michigan through Canada to Upstate New York. However, when I reached about 20 miles from Post, I hit an animal. Pretty sure it was a Raccoon. So noticed I hit the animal pretty hard, and was really worried about

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1089302255028516522004-07-08T19:48:00.000+04:002004-07-09T01:50:51.823+04:00

In another town which many people don't know about. Samarra, there was a mortar attack on a National Guard headquarters in the central part of the city. 4 US soldiers and 1 Iraqi soldier were killed. 20 US troops and 3 Iraqi soldiers were wounded. The attacked forced the headquarters to collapse. Wow, this is very interesting. The Iraqi mortar fire is usually inaccurate and no one usually gets

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1088702969743655862004-07-01T21:29:00.001+04:002004-07-01T21:29:29.743+04:00

Saddam appeared for court and so did many of his cronies. He defiantly said his charges were unlawful and that the real criminal was President Bush. Many Iraqis had mixed views, some saying this is not the right time, others saying it appeared that Saddam was running the court room and there were other mixed views as well. To me, it's not really surprising he would act so defiantly, he's always

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1088475871899969002004-06-29T06:05:00.000+04:002004-06-29T06:24:31.900+04:00

Iraq is now in control of herself. Finally the transfer is complete and Iraq is a independent nation. This is awesome news, but for some reason I wasn't as happy as I thought I might be. Now I wonder what the people who claim the war was only about oil are going to say now. I say this because their argument about us keeping the oil for ourselves has completely blown up in their face. The Iraqis

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1088385910061385962004-06-28T05:07:00.000+04:002004-06-28T05:28:35.386+04:00

I'm not one for doing movies reviews on a blog, but this new movie by Micheal Moore really touched me personally. This movie is a documentary, and does have a political agenda behind it. However, there is alot of truth in the film. I went to this movies so I could get other perspectives on the world. I don't just listen to one side and decide I like them, I like to hear from all different sides

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1087747736161376792004-06-20T19:57:00.000+04:002004-06-20T20:08:56.160+04:00

Soon after the murder of an American Hostage in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi authorities quickly tracked down who were responsible and quickly dispatched them. Abdulaziz al-Moqrin was the #1 Al-Qaeda man in Saudi Faisal Abdul-Rahman al-Dikheel was the #2 man and a few other high value targets were killed among them in the fire fight. This is great news that maybe now the Saudis have realized they have

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1087565904701082172004-06-18T17:28:00.000+04:002004-06-18T17:38:24.700+04:00

Congress virtually one sided, with respect of 4 nay votes, have voted for the military to expand it's size to 20,000 troops. Many civilians look at this as something good. However, I am VERY against this. The US military needs to stay small for several reasons. Number one, to keep the military WELL equip. People complain about the bad equipment or shortage of equipment now, it will get even worse

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1087410094622419592004-06-16T22:20:00.000+04:002004-06-16T22:21:34.623+04:00

To me, it seems alot of the resolve the American people have is starting to run out. After 9-11, everyone was willing to sacrifice almost anything to ensure their safety. Now, people are in like complete denial that Al-Qaeda even remains a threat. Just like Former Mayor Giuliani said the enemy is not each other, the enemy are the terrorists. We Americans need to understand that there is a very

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1086540950711903512004-06-06T20:35:00.000+04:002004-06-06T20:55:50.710+04:00

We lost a great American yesterday. Former President Ronald Reagan died at the age of 94. Regardless of what your political views are, you still should give credit where credit is due. Ronald Reagan took office during a very uncertain time in America. Russia had invaded Afghanistan, it was an uncertain time whether Democracy was really stronger than Communism, and the economy was not good. When

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1086205598186687012004-06-02T23:31:00.000+04:002004-06-02T23:46:38.186+04:00

I am from Michigan, so I'm extremely excited the Pistons have finally made it to the finals. I can imagine there must be alot of pride in people back home finally again. The only team we could ever depend on to play well was the Red Wings. They are probably not going to beat the LA Lakers, but at least they made it. Yesterday's game was a big roller coaster, I was really getting very upset at all

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1086049447591522232004-06-01T04:15:00.000+04:002004-06-01T04:24:07.593+04:00

A small gun battle insues in the city of Kufa. I saw bits and peices of it on TV. 2 Soldiers die, and an estimated 30 or so insurgence killed. The footage looks pretty interesting. I'm not saying i'm a war monger, but ther is just something about having to depend on the men next to you to survive that I miss. That is probably why I would like to go back. For us, it's not about Fighting for

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1085456279452747192004-05-25T07:07:00.000+04:002004-05-25T07:37:59.453+04:00

Well, I was finishing training for the day, while President Bush gave his address to the nation about Iraq. I saw bits and pieces on the news though. They highlighted some good things he said though. It seemed like he was speaking from the heart. One thing I admire about Bush is his resolve. Even if the decision he makes brings a flood of criticism, he still does what HE thinks is right. Which is

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1085260882404891222004-05-23T01:08:00.000+04:002004-05-23T01:21:22.403+04:00

Isn't this funny, Arabs saying a wedding was hit by an american bomb, when there is pretty much incontravertable evidence that it was in fact a high level meeting of foriegn fighters. I've been at the Syrian border for a few days, doing check points, and believe me, that place is FAR FAR FAR from civilization. So, them saying it was a wedding really makes me want to laugh. I remember when we have

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1084987923203283512004-05-19T21:31:00.000+04:002004-05-19T21:32:03.203+04:00

Mayor Rudy Giuliani testified to the 9-11 Investigation panel today. Me and my buddy got to watch it for about 15 minutes. Giuliani described everything down to the finest details. What really struck me was when he talked about the details about witnessing people jumping out of the building, and how shocking it was and how many survivors came up to him and said how encouraged they became as they

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1084861834564410932004-05-18T09:59:00.000+04:002004-05-18T10:30:34.563+04:00

The highest ranking member of the GC in Iraq was killed a suicide bomber. It was a big shock for me and really upset me. The group that claims to be responsible called him a traitor. Who really is the traitor here? The real amazing thing is, this happen in the green zone. Supposedly one of the most secure areas in the world. This had to be the work of an inside job. The animals that committed

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1084719431829183342004-05-16T18:36:00.000+04:002004-05-16T18:57:11.830+04:00

The USA is in a tough position. They are battling Al-Sadr militia forces is Najaf, Karabala and a few other places. They are finding themselves being engaged by enemy forces hiding in important Shiite mosques or monuments. Washington of course is trying desperately to avoid collateral damage, while giving the US forces authority to defend themselves. The commanders on the battlefield have a tough

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984302.post-1084397514964856312004-05-13T01:31:00.000+04:002004-05-13T01:31:54.963+04:00

An American civilian gets beheaded in Iraq. I'm not as shocked as many people here in the States and all over the world. I knew this was going to happen. I knew they would retaliate in some sort of way that had to do with some gruesome death that would be filmed and released. I don't know why people were so shocked, maybe it's just because I've seen these people put woman in children in their

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15917548878812930453noreply@blogger.com