New e-mail from Josh
 

New update from my family friend:

[quote:cb7d4]Hello all,

I have not been out on the update kick lately and thought that I would send something out.

I had a chance to go home for leave in January and absolutely loved it.
Heather and Ben are doing well in Statesville and I had no trouble fitting back in (thank you Heather...) There were many hours of playing GOBOTs and a few "honey do's" that got done in the two weeks - all of it was great.
Visited Ben's school for a morning and talked to the kids about what it is like to be a soldier and the similarities between kids all over the world - they just wanted to know why the army has its hair so short! Not nearly enough time of course.

Not sure how long we will be here, but planning for the end of summer.

We have stayed busy with convoys all over the place: to the Syrian boarder to inspect some forts (picture attached); to a Kurdish town called Dohuk where we walked around with no weapon etc and shopped; to Rabia (boarder crossing town); to Mosul; to Talafar etc. Lots of time on the road - I enjoy being the gunner.

Biaj is still the same only it is no longer wet, muddy and cold. We are still getting mortared every now and then and there are still IEDs.
Hopefully we can get it to calm down.

Well, Gotta go on another convoy so I must keep this short. The picture is of me and my Major at Border fort 31 on the boarder with Syria. The fort is about 400yds from the actual boarder and there are Syrian forts visible....
all out in the middle of nowhere!!!!!

Josh

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Why don't you ask him how much electricity the Iraqis are getting? ed:

^thats kinda fucked up, dont you think you should leave that in another thread eek:

It was supposed to be sarcasm..but if Coleman can e-mail the guy and ask him why should it be a bad thing?

no i picked up on that sarcasm. Machette and I always bicker back and forth in a joking manner.

But I do not know him that well to feel comfortable enough to email him about that, sorry.

or how many dictators are not killing them anymore.

rolleyes:

back at ya

Yup, because your excuse for poor planning, management, and "undiminished violence in Iraq" is that we got Saddam, a weak leader with no support from his people with an Army that fell faster then an anvil in both Gulf Wars. To bad, now, because of this little "Persian Excursion" we've lost 2K+ troops, were spending billions and nearing our debt ceiling, thousands of Iraqis are dead, civil war on the horizon, a fueled insurgency, and swelling of radical Islamic groups.

But we got Saddam...who probably wont ever be convicted or just end up like Milosevic and die in some jail cell years after his crimes have been committed.

yea, sure, if you put it that way.

keep this shit out of my thread, kthx bye

Sorry coleman.. wallbash: