One of the best video salute to the troops I’ve seen
I’m told this was made by a 15-year-old girl. If so, she did a great job. Really, it’s one of the best salute to the troops I’ve seen in quite some time.

I’m told this was made by a 15-year-old girl. If so, she did a great job. Really, it’s one of the best salute to the troops I’ve seen in quite some time.

I took this photo while flying over Baghdad. It is the Grand Mosque which Saddam was building when the invasion occurred. When finished, it was supposed to be the largest mosque in the world. I doubt it will ever be completed.
This photo was making the email rounds while I was in Iraq. Reportedly, it was a wolf captured in or around Baghdad. I don't know that wolves are indigenous to Iraq, so it could have come from the zoo.
Believe it or not, this is what they served for dinner one night. I think it was a case of a Turk not translating to English correctly.
This graffiti showed up on some walls in a local national parking lot not long before I left. I was told it is a memorial to locals who had worked for the USA and been killed.
I was able to visit the Ah Shaw(sp) palace in Baghdad - one of Saddam's old haunts and now the home of MNC-I. These columns were huge.
This is a rocket that landed on our base, detonated underground, and did no damage. I believe this is actually a rocket designed to be fired from an aircraft, but Hajji will use anything they can get to shoot.
The FOB I was on was a former Iraqi Air Force base. As a result, we had a couple of these old Mig-21s laying around. The former commander of the base told me the more modern planes were buried - and then dug up for scrap by the locals.
QWBC, the FOB I was on, was an old Iraqi air force base and there were some of these old, beat fighters still lying around.
The extension on the front of this HMMWV is used to set off IEDs prior to the HMMWV actually passing by. These have been used in Iraq for some time, so I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here.
Here's a Styker from the FOB I was on. The 'bird cage' of slats around the vehicle help stop RPG rounds.
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