| Author | Message | ||
     Grndskpr |
Just an interesting take from another board i post on, just thought you might enjoy it, Thanks R Well thanx for the support...I kind of feel like I'm in a jock strap! Naw all kidding aside really thank you for the kind words and I hope to meet you guys and gals on my next venture to Chicago area and or if Lance gets some of you to head out west for a burn. I'll take the liberty of giving you folks a blurb not tainted by the US media, here goes: In Kirkuk, Iraq all is prety well. For the most part the population is Kurdish but is well mixed with Arabs & Turkoman. Here there are a number of differant religions it actually reminds me of the states just without, my two wheels, and without proper plumbing and sewage, and clubs, and no trash just laying around in heaps, and the lady and well I guess it's not quite like the states but as far as there being a number of differance between people and they getting along fairly well it does. The situation is relatively calm up north here and we don't get any real trigger time. Most of our patrols constist of looking for road side bombs and the hopes that we will come across somone •••••••• about. Mostly we work with the locals checking out their shops and wheeling and dealing with them. They are mostly cool and the kids absolutly love us. Thats pretty much understandable when one considers how we treat them. I mean Americans, for the most part, have a soft spot for kids, women and dogs (not neccisarily in that order), and it shows in how the kids react to us. I mostly look forward to helping out the people and the hopes that we get going on more civil works projects here and focus our military might elsewere in the country like the Sunni triangle area. During the entire month of January my company was in the greater Bahqubah area and that place was the wild west! Nearly every day a firefight was going on withing earshot. That and with the counterbattery arty fire it took a couple of days to adjust. With that being said our company wasn't really fired upon much and no injuries or casualties. I think rolling about in tracked vehicles has that affect. Here in Kirkuk we manuver on foot or in HMMWVs only no tracks. Like I said relativly cool here. If any of you wish to make a differance in Iraq one can simply send cheap ••• pencils and/or pens, toohbrushes and toothpaste, and small notebooks. Pens and pencils are what the kids always ask for and they are all really thirsty for knowledge as all children are. You can send items like that or anything you would like to have my company dispurse to the people and I will ensure that happens and take some photos during that mini-operation when it goes down. As long as the moderators here don't object I will keep a thread going under a differant title or section and keep you guys up to speed on my area anyway. Thanks again for the well wishes and you all have a frosty one for me and keep the rubber down at least when they leave the ground make sure they land first! SGT Aaron Vaughn TRP E 163CAV / 2-116AR / 116BCT / (Forward) APO AE 09368 Ya all stay coll now...hear? AV | ||
| Glitch |
Thanks for that Roger. And my thanks as always goes out to all of those in the military takin' care o' business! | ||
| Bcordb3 |
What Glitch said! I have said this before "everyone of you that serve our country, here or abroad, this includes firemen, and policemen, are hero's in my eyes." God Bless you and all the troops. I will have a package of pencils and pads in the mail soon. | ||
| Grndskpr |
Thanks Bill thats very cool of you remind me to buy you a beer if i ever meet you R |
