Ok, well I finally posted up some pics from the last year.  Not as many as I posted from my last tour, but how many different pictures of helicopters can I post anyway?  I also haven’t posted any Twitter digests in a while, and…

I wasn’t in Alaska a lot, but I followed her on the campaign and just liked the way she did business.  She seemed to be a pretty straight shooter and a real person, not a puppet in a suit. Even this whole quitting thing hasn’t really changed my opinion of…

I have been in emergency medicine a long time.  I have seen a lot of things that would give most second thoughts about humanity as a whole.  However, the patients that have bothered me most over they years have always been the children. I have witnessed some

I dunno, I am no political analyst or super genius economist but could someone please explain to me exactly how Cap and Trade, Nationalized Healthcare, Bail Outs, etc is a good thing?  In my simple little mind, my simple mathematical ability doesn’t add up.  Here we are in a bad…

Ok, so June 30th came and went.  U.S. forces have finished moving out of major Iraqi cities.  We did not do it all at once, its been a more or less a phased withdrawl over the past several weeks unlike the media has led you to believe.  Iraq did not…

It all started early in the morning in a busy market of a town near here.  A market usually patrolled and guarded by the Iraqi Police.  A market where the police usually prevent vehicles from entering so that occurrences of violence wouldn’t happen.  For some reason, this particular morning no…

As you have no doubt heard by now, the Dems have done their usual and cut defense spending into nothing.  Many of the future warfighter programs that the military has been developing for years are now dead, leaving us - the men on the ground, without new equipment to keep…

It took 9 years to figure this out? Really?  Sometimes I have to wonder about the think-tankers out there. <strong>Army requires different leaders to fight irregular wars, general says</strong> The Army will require a different type of leader in the fight against terrorism and other kinds of irregular warfare,…

So, I have re-entered Hades, having passed the gates for a short reprieve. I am back in Iraq and enjoying the lovely red-tinged, sand engulfed, hot weather.  Its still only a balmy 42C though. Not a lot has gone on since I got back, but I haven’t been back all…

I haven’t been saying a lot about what I have been actually doing since getting here.  I am not really sure why exactly.  Last time I reported from Iraq it was full of little stories and narratives about what I was experiencing.  Maybe its because the experience is so different…

I have been quietly reflecting on a lot the last few weeks.  I re-connected with a few old friends and it got me to thinking.  Two of them are doctors now.  Several are still doing exactly what they were doing back when, and some have moved on to other things.…

I am reading a book on the history of “Dust Off,” or the helicopter medevac.  Its been an interesting read so far in that it walks the reader through the entire history, major changes, etc that have occurred in Medevac up till Vietnam.  It covers stories of the…

Well, wasn’t this a historic election. Not my man, but I recognize the historical importance of this election. Now I will have a <em>“wait and see”</em> attitude and see if the president-elect can pull off what he says or if he’ll be a party puppet.  We will look back on…

Well, My wife and I submitted our absentee ballots for President the other day.  We didn’t get here soon enough to register. I think this is going to be a very important and historically significant election.  I think this could be a very close race and the amount of voter…

Guardian Angels For Soldier’s Pets is a wonderful organization that helps find foster families for soldier’s pets.  A lot of times family pets end up in pounds when soldier’s deploy because they can’t find anyone to take care of them, or don’t have…

This picture came out better than I thought.  It looks like one of those weird telescope images of the universe. Its actually a shot of the audience at the free

Like most Americans, I have been thinking a lot about the War on Terror, Gas Prices, and the economy lately.  I am sure that a lot of Political Analysts, Economists, and the like have thought of this before now, but I can’t help but think that the U.S. is under…

I received an interesting piece of mail today, the annual Army Housing Survey.  Its a little survey asking about how we like on-post housing and our experiences with customer service, service calls, and quality.  Needless to say, my cardboard project housing received very poor scores.

The other day I had to go to the hospital to check on a soldier.  He had gotten in a serious accident related to his drinking, driving, then wrapping his car around a tree at a high rate of speed.  When I saw him, he was in relatively serious condition…

I spent my tour in Iraq with a STOMP II Aid Bag.  This is a very nice and large Aid Bag.  However, there are several problems with it in my eyes that made it a less than perfect bag.  First of all, I am not a fan…

Since my return from Iraq, my posting has sort of tanked into the black hole of nothingness.  It seems my readership has as well.  Things just aren’t as interesting in the good ol’ US of A as they are on the “front lines.” I would love for my blog to…

Why can’t I write like this? I found this reposted on The Sandbox from an article originally posted on Acute Politics. We are a whole new generation of vets. The Idaho Statesman began a five-part series yesterday on the “Five Years of War”. It…

This is an interesting video. It was done by a guy named Kafir Alalazoo, who’s pseudonym in his own words is <em>“derived from the Arabic word ‘kafir’, which means ‘infidel’, and the word ‘alalazoo’, which is an ancient Greek military term, meaning ‘to raise a war cry’.…

So I’ve been in the hospital for the last few days with what is called a Non-Battle Injury. In other words, I was not wounded in battle, I had an urgent healthcare matter that required surgery.  I got a whirlwind tour of the medical evacuation system for Iraq and Kuwait…

Ok, so I guess its time to stop the freakish ramblings and give up some more “<em>Tales of Hell</em>.”  If you read my little post from the other day, then you’ll realize that not much has been going on that hasn’t been going on here for months.  There just seems…