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Archive for 'August,2011'

Deadliest Month In Afghanistan Prompts Calls to Withdraw

I recognize that our involvement in Afghanistan is the longest military engagement of our history. I also recognize that our engagement in Afghanistan was a needed and righteous one. The conflict in Afghanistan is unlike any [...]

Fobbits Kill

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a little about “fobbits.” I won’t rehash the term since I just linked it, but I want to talk about the “fobbit mentality.” There is a distinctive difference between [...]

Night of Power – Night of Destiny

(Photo by SPC Gary Silverman) Ramazan is akin to the month leading up to Christmas in the Christian faith. According to Sura 2:185 of the Quran, “Ramazan is the month during which the Quran was revealed, [...]

KAF-Tastic Killer Bunnies

My mission here in Afghanistan is very busy, with bouts of extreme boredom. There is always something to do here since our job entails tracking and managing personnel and equipment coming through Kandahar. We also manage [...]

How To Keep Your Soul

NOTE: This is a religious post. If you don’t believe in God, want to mock God, or get offended because you weren’t hugged enough as a child, do not read any further. The Soldiers from 3rd [...]

Dog Tags

All Soldiers wear them. On a regular basis they are inspected by commands to ensure that we haven’t sold them for a free (root) beer or something. They contain everything the military needs to know about [...]

War’s Sad Reality

“Please lower all U.S. flags to half to honor our Fallen Warrior that has just arrived on KAF.” Unfortunately, it’s an email that I get on a daily basis. A few hours later, another email is [...]

United Through Reading

The USO has a great program that connects deployed mothers and fathers with their children back home. It also connects Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen with school children or youth groups that participate in the program. [...]

2-38 CAV Creates New FET, Links GIRoA to Afghan Women

Female engagement teams (FET) are the key to winning this war. Without our female troops, it would be near impossible to contact and engage with some of the most influential people in the Afghan home – [...]

Mark Wills Introduces Video Contest for Crazy Being Home Campaign

In April of this year, multi-platinum country music artist Mark Wills – a good friend of mine and the military – in alliance with USA Cares (a non-profit national military assistance charity founded to assist post-9/11 [...]

A Fobbit’s Life For Me

Fobbit. According to the Urban Dictionary, a “fobbit” is “a term used to describe soldiers in Iraq that rarely if ever leave the relative safety of the Forward Operating Base (FOB).” Image courtesy of [...]

Training, Training, Training

Prior to deploying to Afghanistan, Soldiers are required to become “certified” deployable. This includes everything from communications training to counter-IED training to combat lifesaving training. And it doesn’t stop back there. Army Capt. Devin Ciminero, A [...]