Just wanted to share some of our images and experiences during our all expense paid year-plus long vacation to Iraq.


Calendar of Events

Feb 19-20 Flight from McChord to Kuwait.
Feb 21-Mar 19: Life in Camp Virginia, Kuwait.
...Modifing the Vehicles for the Convoy north.
...Day at the ball park.
Feb 23-Feb 25: Advance Party stops in to visit Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) and visits one of the local Palaces.
Feb 25-Feb 27: Advance Party catches a C-130 ride to Camp Freedom, Mosul, Iraq.
Feb 27: Advance Party catches a Blackhawk to Habur Gate.
Feb 27-Feb 28: Advance Party checks out their new home and its surroundings.
Feb 28: Advance Party convoys back to Mosul.
Feb 28-Mar 22: I am left to my own at Freedom.
...Trip to Nimrud
...Trip to Tal Afar
Mar 19-Mar 22: Main Body Convoy to Camp Freedom
Mar 28: Detachment leaves for Habur Gate
Mar 29- September: Life at Habur Gate
...Visit our local scrap yard
...Volley Ball with the ICDC
...Fishing
...Restocking Water
September-Flight Home: FOB Marez Mosul
...Some stuff that goes boom.
...A stuck Stryker.
...The Sausage Factory.
...Thanksgiving in Mosul.
...Christmas.
...Some of the strange vehicles we sir. ...Red Sky  


SFC Hope finds some Land Rovers
The Videos
First us having fun...
...Playing with guns
...Dont breath the air.
...RC Cars
...RC Cars Take 2
And now some footage...
...Dont take a rifle to a tank fight.
...Dont Fawk with a Marine.
...Crowd Control
...A big boom
...Birds eye view
...Dont go into the field