I’m in Iraq at Balad now. It’s not a bad place… We’ve been here for about 24 hours and we’ve been mortered twice. We live in a tent that has sandbags all around it so unless the mortar hit our tent itself, we’ll be ok. The first one woke us up this morning (we have […]

Dust devils are pretty cool, if I do say so myself. If you don’t notice it, you’ll start hearing sand hit stuff around you and suddenly you’ll be surrounded in a sandstorm. There’s nothing you can do until it goes away, and then you can watch it go like a baby tornado. Anyways… I don’t […]

I would just like to say that Megatokyo is still the greatest web comic ever. The end.

One other quick update about BTZ. It’s an award kinda thing where those who are the top of the squadron (kinda like the top of the department in a commercial world) get put up to go before a board and they go head to head against other people in the squadron. Anyways… if your accepted […]

Well, after three days of no shower and eating only MRE’s (yuck) I’m back in Kuwait. I have lots of pictures that I’ll have to put up here when I can. As it stands now, I’m now a .50 cal gunner. Here is a picture of what I was shooting for your viewing pleasure. That […]

It’s really really hot here… I mean like hair dryer hot! It sucks. We’re going to the range in a couple days to do the live ammo shooting and the 50cal/mark19 shooting. On other news, I’ve had a headache for the last couple days… I thought it was from not sleeping for like two days, […]

Matt just wanted me to give you an update. He’s in Germany now. They’re getting the plane refueled and then they’re heading to Kwait. It’s been a long flight….. 17 hours so far. *ugh* Other news… Matt got BTZ (Below The Zone). It’s an award for all his hard work, plus he’ll be getting paid […]

If you want to mail me in Iraq, here is the address… SrA Matthew Jones 2632 AEFTC 7th Battalion LSA Anaconda APO AE 09391 I won’t be there for a few weeks so hold off on the letters. Also, it takes me a week to get your mail and a month to send it out… […]

I’m going to Balad now, not mosul.

I forgot to mention in all my bitching… My wife showed up! It’s great, I get to spend all this time with her. I love her a whole bunch. I can’t see her very much because of all that’s going on, but every second counts. (I was given one whole night right after the training, […]