Justa
Since Feb 13, 1999
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Justa
Since Feb 13, 1999
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5 1/2 years Army, Field Artillery MLRS, 2 years Army CID. Stationed at Fort Sill, OK and Babenhausen, GE. Medically seperated due to a Line Of Duty injury. I did VA's Voc Rehab, trained and certified on computer systems and networking and began work as a systems and network engineer.
I worked 2 years in WA then went to Iraq as an IT contractor. I stayed for 40 months and travelled extensively throughout the country in support of the network. My first year I was based at Babylon in Al Hillah until the base jumped to Diwaniyah in December. I travelled extensively in the MND CS AOR during the insurgency to such places as Najaf (FOBs Baker, Golf and Hotel), Karbala (FOBs Lima and Duke), Al Kut, Diwaniyah, etc. Most travel was courtesy the great folks of 7/11 out of Mobile, AL. Travel was in their unarmored/under-armored Humvees. I look back on that and don't know how everyone made it out without casualties other than to say they were well-led and remained on the ball the whole year.
The next two years I was based in the IZ and Camp Victory, Baghdad. I still travelled but not as much. I went to such places as Tikrit, Taji, Fallujah, IZ Enclaves, Balad, etc. usually via Black Hawks or unarmored Mitsubishi B200 company truck. I thought it was okay until one day I saw a convoy ambush story out of Falluajah with an accompanying photo of a burning B200 at the center of the ambush zone. It was even the same color as mine. Okay, so after that no more truck travel. The shiny, unarmored civilian truck at the center of a convoy stacked with Hardigg transit cases in the back was just too big of a target. It was helicopters after that.
Forty months was enough. I was burned out, grey haired, over-weight, with Type II diabetes and a (temporary) heart condition (thank goodness).
I returned July '07 and currently live and work in the Tampa area. I'd just like to say our soldiers and mission over there are the absolute best thing going on in the world today. The Iraqis are great people and in 4 short years have culturally progressed to what it took the West hundreds of years and countless lives to achieve. For 5-years now they and our soldiers have endured the Al Queida terrorists and attacks which would have been directed elsewhere had we not invaded. Together, we are confronting terrorism at its source, creating an environment it cannot control or otherwise survive in. They are criminal organizations at their heart and without control over the populace they are weakened and ultimately perish.
If there's one thing which comes to mind after 3+ years in Iraq it is: Democracy for Iraq; jail for journalists. I think that pretty much sums it up for me.
Oh, yeah and about anthropogenic Global Warming: It's a crock. Not only that but the whole "Greenhouse Effect" is an absolute fraud as a greenhouse blocks convection and water vapor, the leading processes for atmospheric temperature change. The atmosphere not only does not block convection and water vapor but is dominated by them in the form of weather.
Whatever "greenhouse effect" exists, miniscule as it may be, has absolutely no effect upon temperatures starting at the molecular level and all the way to global climate change. It's all just so much crap wrapped up into a crooked disinformation campaign.
Some supporting work:
http://www.climateaudit.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=76
http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/pubs/HeatCapacity.pdf
http://www.dailytech.com/Researcher+Basic+Greenhouse+Equations+Totally+Wrong/article10973.htm
