Although I save nearly every letter, card, and email I ever get, this hand-written note from "Funky" is one of the few I know practically by heart and one which I felt was so special that I stapled it into my journal (versus putting it in a box with a thousand other letters). He was [...]
12Nov 2005, 22:30 Saturday Really, nothing eventful happened today yet again. I woke up more tired than ever, but made it through the day ok. Email and work till noonish, walk to lunch, work more till 3ish, napped, ran, back to work - pretty regular day in AQ. I didn't feel too down or [...]
gorgeous sunset in northwest Iraq 9 November, 2200 Wednesday Well, they were hammering away at something all night, so I only got about 4 hours of sleep tops. I was coughing and sneezing all day, but had a decent one. Flew at work again today, scrounged a somewhat good lift in at the gym, and [...]
7 November 2005, 2230 MondayAnother good and quick day today at work. We blew up LOTS of buildings. In fact, a couple of the GBU's dropped were dropped by Shaggy! (Scott's friend we hung out with in VA Beach). How cool is that?! I didn't work out today, but did laundry in the afternoon instead. [...]
living and work spaces at AQ 6 November 2005, 2030, Sunday Today was a good day. Work passed pretty quickly, lunch was awesome, I watched some Dave Chapell Show with Dave, ran with Lt Deleal, lifted, back to work, shower, and back to work. At the end of the day we blasted 80's [...]
5 November 2005, 2130, Saturday - D DaySo, Operation Steel Curtain kicked off today. It was eventful and busy, but nothing my Marines couldn't handle. We helped find insurgents, blow up over 10 buildings, and kill bad guys. I sat in on the mission for a while this morning and it was great; I definitely [...]
Dave, aka: "Funky"4 November 2005, 21:00 FridayI got to work (aka: walked 10feet to the left) around 7:00 this morning and we had another "warm up" day because the mission got pushed back a day. It is a pretty fun working environment. Everyone gives me a hard time, but it is good natured and we [...]
3 November 2005, 08:20, ThursdayI was up at 0600, out of bed at 0615 to literally stumble to work next door for the brief at 0630. We've got dual ops going. The crew here consists of Capt Funkhouser, MSgt Gomez, me, SSgt Cornejo, LCpl Daniels and LCpl Koopman, four civilians, and like four other (non-intel) [...]
With the Lazy Sunday SNL short having just gone viral, many of our jokes centered around that video. Thus, I decided to name my journal entries whilst forward at AQ The Al Qa'im Chronicles. Daniels at TQ J-COT 2 November 2005, 15:20 Wednesday, Al Qa'im IraqSo, I just got to the Al Qa'im Forward Operating Base (AQ [...]
* I found another gem among my archives :) So, after I received the warning letter from my father (posted on the blog last week), I waited one week, then 9/11 happened, and the next day, I gave this official letter to the Wing Commander of the Air Force Det, an USAF Colonel. I'm [...]