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It’s In The Courtyard: Pages From My Pocket
In this week’s edition of Pages From My Pocket: Intel Every soldier is a sensor. That aside, there are a number of ways that battlefield intelligence can be collected. The very nature of our Cavalry Squadron was RTSA: reconnaissance, surveillance, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Army, combat, depression, Disgruntled Veteran, iraq, military leadership, PTSD, Stryker, Tal'Afar, veteran, war, war vignettes
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Council Me, Please: Pages From My Pocket
In this week’s edition of Pages From My Pocket: Reconciliation This one comes from our time in the Surge. Post-Baghdad the Regiment moved to Ba’qubah in Diyala province. Diyala was where Abu Al Zarqawi had been hiding before the U.S. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Army, combat, depression, Disgruntled Veteran, iraq, Iraq reconciliation, military leadership, PTSD, sectarian violence, sectarianism, Stryker, veteran, war, war vignettes
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QRF -This Sux: Pages From My Pocket
In this week’s edition of Pages From My Pocket: QRF Ah – QRF; the Quick Reaction Force. I’ve written a few brief blurbs about being on QRF here and here. But as goes, there are hundreds of other stories about … Continue reading →
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Tagged Army, combat, depression, Disgruntled Veteran, iraq, military leadership, PTSD, Rawah, Stryker, veteran, war, war vignettes
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Purple Heart Day — Pacific Paratrooper
August 7th is National Purple Heart Day. It doesn’t seem to be a day on calendars, there isn’t a card for it, and there are no cakes – nor should their be, if you ask me. What today is, to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Army, combat, depression, iraq, PTSD, Purple Heart, Stryker, Tal'Afar, veteran, war, war vignettes
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Winds of Change: Pages From My Pocket
In this first edition of Pages From My Pocket: Change Notes on the changing tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP’s) used by AIF (anti-Iraqi forces) Circa June, 2005. Upon returning from Tal’Afar, but before we moved down to Rawah, we had done … Continue reading →
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Tagged Army, combat, depression, Disgruntled Veteran, iraq, military leadership, neil santorilello, PTSD, Stryker, veteran, war, war vignettes
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Introducing the “Pages From My Pocket” Series
I recently spent a weekend overhauling the storage space under the stairs leading down to the basement and furnace room. Doing so allowed me to get rid of some crap I had been keeping stored that was of no real … Continue reading →
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Tagged Army, combat, depression, Disgruntled Veteran, iraq, military leadership, PTSD, Stryker, veteran, war, war vignettes
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Can’t Make These Things Up
We had a sniper problem. Plain and simple, what began as opportunistic or harassment fire escalated into a full-scale issue. It all was at and around the Castle in Tal’Afar (the old Ottoman Empire fortification that ringed the central hill … Continue reading →
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Tagged combat, depression, Disgruntled Veteran, iraq, PTSD, veteran, war, war vignettes
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Assumed Risk (Border Ops Part II)
This is in continuation to the assumption of risk piece I wrote about here. It was May 2005, and we were about to rotate off of the Syrian border in Rabiah for the last time (so we thought). We had … Continue reading →
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Tagged combat, Disgruntled Veteran, iraq, PTSD, veteran, war, war vignettes
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Bringing Some History to History…
A long time ago in what seems like an entirely different life, far far away, I used some of the blood money I was making while downrange to procure something different. Something special. Something timeless, and unique. I bought an … Continue reading →
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Tagged absinthe, combat, depression, Disgruntled Veteran, iraq, ISIS, PTSD, veteran, war, war poems, War Poetry
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V is for Valor
I have on occasion eaten my own words, and I am fine with that fact. Every one of us gets humbled at some point in time in our lives (sometimes over and over) and these moments hopefully make us better … Continue reading →
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Tagged combat, depression, Disgruntled Veteran, iraq, PTSD, Valor, veteran, war, war vignettes
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