From the Front...

My brother who is a corporal/E-4 working in aviational supply in the USMC has agreed to send the occasional post over telling us of his exploits over in Iraq. He will be sent over at the beginning of October and no doubt his exploits will make for an interesting read. (Note: Not actually my brother to the left. He doesn't wear glasses.) It's important to note that he will probably have different opinions of things, and I would tend to defer to him for all maters related to Iraq, for I am but a lowly hippie. My experience with soldiers' blogs is that they tend to give a much more fine tuned/less whole/more accurate view of what is going on in Iraq.

What does my brother do? According to him

"i work for mag-39 mals-39 aviational supply, CMD, RSB NCOIC."

Apparently this is some kind of strange foreign robot language because I have no idea what it means.

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So, after the third straight day of non news, watching the networks focus on a dude taking a trip on an airplane, the situation in Iraq seems to of (gasp!) worsened. One of the few success stories there (The relative stability in the north Kurdish controlled areas) is looking like it may become another clusterfuck. Both Turkey and Iran have started working together blowing up the Kurds in their respective countries and even taking a few potshots into Iraq, a country currently occupied by tens of thousands of U.S. Soldiers. Both Iran and Turkey expressed frustration at America's reluctance to handle the guerilla groups that have been launching attacks from Iraq into Turkey, and Turkish officials have also hinted that may be heading into Iraq in what would be a large-scale invasion.

I can't totally blame them, it would be better than the reason we went in.