Half a World Away

When I first found at I was getting deployed, my only desired outcomes were not dying and coming home with the same number of parts that I l...

John Kerry made a little stop in the Middle East last week. Fortunately, he didn't make it to my neck of the woods. The word on the stre...

Although we aren't where we would like to be this year, the Christmas holiday provided a nice break from the mundane this weekend. Like ...

You may have seen this already, but thought I would post it on here in case you haven't. Merry Christmas! Different Christmas Poem The ...

I did a post back in July on the fine job done by Beans and the Burnometer on mail operations. We are always encouraged to constantly ...

Okay, so I figured out why the pictures were so small. It is because I'm an idiot. I've corrected the problem, at least with the p...

The fine folks at the USO provided us with another great concert this week. Carrie Underwood , winner of American Idol and country singing s...

Congrats to the Husker Volleyball team, who completed a 33-1 season last night with a victory over Stanford to claim their 3rd National Cham...

I did an email interview this week with a gentleman named Jim for his blog Thinking Right. You can find it here . Thanks to SPC Erickson fr...

UPDATE: I thought I would clarify that I didn't write this, I got it forwarded to me in the ol' email. Although I appreciate if yo...

The weather here in Iraq has been phenomenal of late. Back home I'm sure you are familiar with the term Top 10 day. I would say that we ...

As mentioned earlier, the Iraqi Bazaar here at Anaconda sells movies while they are still in the theater. I gave up on buying them a while b...

Well, the Husker Volleyball team is making its 13th straight appearance in the round of 16. That is pretty amazing, not many programs in an...

Stuff from around the Web for your viewing pleasure: I did a post awhile back about Rock, Paper, Scissors and how an Omaha guy won the nat...

Lots of talk this week about the strategy for dealing with Iraq. The Iraq Focus Group has supposedly concluded their meetings and is ready ...

Our PAO (public affairs office) here on Anaconda has a website where they upload pics of the big events after they are complete. I did some...