Archive for April, 2007
From Iraq: Finally embedding with the warfighters!!
After what seemed like days of waiting (though it was just over 36 hours), I finally learned tonight that I’ve gotten an embed slot with the 1-4 Cavalry of the 1st Infantry Division. I’ll fly out sometime tomorrow via helicopter and join up with the unit for a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )American soldiers: Winning over Journalists, one Heart, Mind, and Life at a Time
Note: This piece was mentioned here, which may be the reason for this. Either way, whatever the reason, wow. I am completely blown away, and incredibly undeserving. It’s the soldiers who deserve this praise, not me at all.
Operation Iraqi Freedom saw the advent of a practice that revolutionized modern war reporting: the embedding of journalists [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Voices from Iraq: A Contractor’s Perspective
They work for such companies as Blackwater, Armor Group, EODT, Tetratech, KBR, and others. They operate in a combat zone months out of the year, putting their lives on the line to do jobs – both infrastructure-building and personal security – which either can not or are not being done by American troops or by [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )From Iraq: Traveling Complete – For Now
Well, my 70 1/2 hour transit is finally complete, and I am sitting in the Multinational Forces-Iraq (MNF-I)’s Combined Press Information Center (CPIC), which will be the base of operations for our activities in the Green Zone (which will last until I am embedded with a unit).
My trip to this point has included [...]
Trip to Iraq: Still Waiting to Depart Kuwait
Well, I’ve been here in Kuwait, at tent city on an undisclosed military base, since yesterday afternoon, and am now simply waiting for one of the many flights north to have an empty seat on it for me. Since 90% or so of the people here (military, contractor, press) are in transit – to or [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Trip to Iraq: Greetings from an Undisclosed Location!
Greetings all,
Well, a lo-o-o-ong day of travel is finally over. Beginning at 445am Sunday morning in Atlanta, the 30-hr travel day finally ended when I hit the ground in Kuwait this afternoon around 5pm Baghdad Time (10am EDT). I am now at an undisclosed location waiting on passport processing and then an open seat on [...]
One Morning in April…
Unspeakable tragedy strikes an American university
The morning of April 16 began like almost any other on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, also known as Virginia Tech. Students got up, went to breakfast, went to class, or went out for the day, blissfully unaware of the fact that, within mere hours, the [...]
The new ‘Soldiers of Surrender’
Why the case of the British sailors was so appalling
On March 23, while conducting a routine boarding operation and inspection of a merchant vessel in the waters of the coast of Iraq, fifteen British sailors and Royal Marines were approached by two speedboats full of Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen. The armed British surrendered to the armed [...]
Bringing a Different Perspective to Iraq War Reporting
All of us who comment (and commentate) on events, past and present, bring our own unique experiences and perspectives to whatever subject it is which we choose to write on. In the case of my RedState/Human Events colleague’s and my impending trip to Baghdad, Iraq to cover the current state of the Iraq war, my [...]
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