It's Sunday!

Since we're a day ahead, I'd like to tell you whether the Vike's win or not, but that wouldn't be fair to you.

Anyway, we've been very busy, as usual. This job can be slow or fast. I'm glad the guys I work with like to be busy. Makes the time go faster. Already a month down!

The most interesting part of the past week was going to Iraqi Army base, Camp Ur. Had a great time. Convoyed out there in an MRAP. Ummm, Mine-Resistant ...something. Anyway, a relatively short drive to the camp. On the way, kids ran out to the convoy as the gunner in the last vehicle threw out candy. Good strategy to impress that we are not a threat.

However, the hovels they lived in left a lot to be desired. Basically shit holes. But they were probably the poor and disenfranchised. The Air Force convoy guys told me there were much worse areas in the nearby city.

At Camp Ur, our firefighters were training the Iraqi firefighters. the Camp Ur Fire department had been gifted a brand spankin-new fire truck by a senator from Wisconsin. Of course, it was an Oshkosk truck, made in Wisconsin. Anyway, the truck had great capabilities, but the Iraqis had no clue how to use it. It is an aviation fire truck, the type used at airports.  Powerful water turrets that can knock you into tomorrow. Just a bit of overkill when you are mostly concerned about tent fires and dining hall kitchen fires. So the Iraqi firefighters are trained on the truck now.

I have to figure out how to post a lot of pictures here, as well as the newspaper we put together. And videos. Let me work on that because it takes forever to load one picture to this blog. Time to load some pix and I'll add the stories I've written later today...