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 Greetings! You are reading an article from The Mudville Gazette. To reach the front page, with all the latest news and views, click the logo above or "main" below. Thanks for stopping by! September 7, 2005 Meanwhile, back at the Ranch...By GreyhawkThe hostage rescue story made me realize that since the Hurricane hit I've neglected goings-on in Iraq. In my own defense, even the deployed milbloggers are writing about Katrina - a fact I'm aware of because Mrs G has continued to keep her eye on the ball via the Dawn Patrol. Anyhow, by way of making up for lost time, here are the CENTCOM stories bumped from the front pages by Katrina. COALITION FORCES RESCUE HOSTAGES 09/07/2005 IRAQI, U.S. SOLDIERS FIND CAR BOMB, 3 TERROR SUSPECTS 09/07/2005 4TH BRIGADE SOLDIERS CAPTURE SUSPECTED TERRORISTS 09/06/2005 SOLDIERS DISCOVER IED MAKING CELL 09/06/2005 TASK FORCE LIBERTY SOLDIERS DETAIN TERRORISTS FOLLOWING MORTAR ATTACK 09/06/2005 SENIOR FALLUJAH TERRORIST AIDE CAPTURED 09/06/2005 MORE TERRORISTS TAKEN OFF THE STREETS IN NORTHERN IRAQ 09/06/2005 ABU GHRAIB IED CELL, MEMBERS CAPTURED 09/06/2005 TASK FORCE LIBERTY SOLDIERS STOP AMBUSH, DETAIN EIGHT IN AD DULUIYAH 09/03/2005 WEAPONS CACHE DESTROYED, TERROR SUSPECTS CAPTURED NEAR AL-AMIRIYAH 09/03/2005 SECURITY FORCES CONTINUE TO TAKE CHARGE AGAINST TERROR 09/03/2005 U.S. SOLDIERS, IRAQI ARMY DETAIN 36 SUSPECTED TERRORISTS 09/01/2005 48TH BRIGAGDE DETAINS TERRORISTS, FINDS WEAPONS CACHE 09/01/2005 AIR STRIKE TARGETS TERRORIST SAFE HAVEN IN HUSAYBAH 09/01/2005 COALITION FORCES BOMB TERRORIST SAFE HOUSES 08/31/2005 More later. Later: I was kidding about that "bumped from the front pages". These types of stories never appear in the newpapers. Update: CENTCOM also provides the latest commentary from the enemy: CENTCOM: On 04 September 2005, a participant in a jihadist or extremist website, posts a statement by Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi's al-Qa'ida Organization in the Land of the Two Rivers [Tanzim al-Qa'ida fi Bilad al-Rafidayn] in which the group congratulates Muslims "on what befell the worshippers of the cross." This latest press release congratulates the nation of Islam for the success of Hurricane Katrina as proof of Allah?s wrath upon the Unbelievers and ends in a Muslim call to arms and a prayer for Allah to further punish the infidels.Rest here. Excerpt: "Only recently, America was striking, killing, and starving any person whom it wants. Today, it is begging for oil and food. God has struck America , and the prayers of wronged people have been answered. "And We caused the earth to gush forth with springs, so the waters met (and rose) to the extent decreed" Zarqawi had no comment on our recent Typhoon recovery efforts. Update 2: I suppose I should give NORTHCOM some virtual ink too: Release #18 Update 3: If you're thinking, "Gosh, that's just not enough!" You're right! More at Army Katrina Page and photo gallery. Navy Katrina Page and photo gallery. Air Force Katrina page and photo gallery. Marine Corps Katrina page (photos with stories). DoD Katrina page and photo gallery National Guard pages here and here. And the Coast Guard Katrina page here.  Biloxi, Miss. (Sept. 6, 2005) - A U.S. Navy Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC), assigned to Assault Craft Unit Four (ACU-4), arrives on the beach in Biloxi, Miss., to offload relief supplies for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. ACU-4 is currently assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5). The Navy's involvement in the Hurricane Katrina humanitarian assistance operations is led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in conjunction with the Department of Defense. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Michael Sandberg (RELEASED) Posted by Greyhawk / September 7, 2005 8:04 PM | Permalink 5 Comments |
November 26, 2010America@war [Greyhawk]
I think anyone who's ever pondered the "comment" option - once only available on blogs and bulletin boards, now ubiquitous on almost any web site - will appreciate this:
The so-called faculty of writing is not so much a faculty of writing as it is a faculty of thinking. When a man says, "I have an idea but I can't express it"; that man hasn't an idea but merely a vague feeling. If a man has a feeling of that kind, and will sit down for a half an hour and persistently try to put into writing what he feels, the probabilities are at least 90 percent that he will either be able to record it, or else realize that he has no idea at all. In either case, he will do himself a benefit. That's wisdom from the past, captured for posterity at the US Naval Institute, shared via the web on the institute's 137th anniversary. From their about page:
"The Naval Institute has three core activities," among them, History and Preservation: The Naval Institute also has recently introduced Americans at War, a living history of Americans at war in their own words and from their own experiences. These 90-second vignettes convey powerful stories of inspiration, pride, and patriotism. Take a look at the collection, and you'll see it's not limited to accounts from those who served on ships at sea, members of the other branches are well-represented. I'm fortunate to have met USNI's Mary Ripley, she's responsible for the institute's oral history program (and she's the daughter of the late John Ripley, whose story is told here). She also deserves much credit for their blog. ("We're not the Navy nor any government agency. Blog and comment freely.") We met at a milblog conference - Mary knew (and I would come to realize) that milbloggers are the 21st-century version of exactly what the US Naval Institute is all about. Once that light bulb came on in my head, I mentioned a vague idea for a project to her - milblogs as the 21st century oral history that they are. "Put that in writing," she said (of course - see first paragraph above!) - and here's part of the result. Shortly after the first tent was pitched by the American military in Iraq a wire was connected to a computer therein, and the internet was available to a generation of Americans at war - many of whom had grown up online. From that point on, at any given moment, somewhere in Iraq a Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine was at a keyboard sharing the events of his or her day with the folks back home. While most would simply fire off an email, others took advantage of the (then) relatively new online blogging platforms to post their thoughts and experiences for the entire world to see. The milblog was born - and from that moment to this stories detailing everything from the most mundane aspects of camp life to intense combat action (often described within hours of the event) have been available on the web... And et cetera - but since you're reading this on a milblog, you probably knew that. And you know that milblogs aren't just blogs written by troops at war, that many friends, family members, and supporters likewise documented their story of America at war online in near-real time, as those stories developed. The diversity in membership of that group is broad, the one thing we all have in common is the impulse to make sense of the seemingly senseless, and communicate the tale - for each of us that impulse was strong enough to overcome whatever barriers prevent the vast majority of people from doing the same. Everyone at some point has some vague idea they believe should be shared - we were the people who, from some combination of internal and external urging, found and spent those many half hours persistently trying to write it down. But where will all that be in another 137 years? Or five or ten, for that matter. That's something I've asked myself since at least 2004 - when I wrote this:
Membership in the ghost battalion has grown in the years since, and an ever growing majority of those abandoned-but-still-standing sites are vanishing. Have you checked out Lt Smash's site lately? How about Sgt Hook's? If you're a long-time milblog reader you know the first widely-read milblog from Operation Iraq Freedom and the first widely-read milblog from Afghanistan are both gone from the web. If you're a relative newcomer to this world you may never even have heard of them - or the dozens upon dozens of others who carried forth the standard they set down. If you have a vague notion that something should be done about that, (a notion I've heard expressed more than once...) then you and I and the good folks at the US Naval Institute are in agreement. Preserving the history documented by the milbloggers is just one of the goals of the milblog project, the once-vague idea that we're now making real. And it's a big idea, if I say so myself - too big to explain in one simple blog post, so stand by for more. Likewise, it's too big a task to be accomplished by just one person. So if you're a milblogger (and exactly what is a milblogger? is a topic for much further discussion on its own) I'm asking for your help. All I'll really need is just a little bit (maybe just one or two of those half hours...) of your time, and your willingness to tell the tale. We've already made history, it's time to save it. (More to follow...) Posted 4:02 PM | Permalink |
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 Furthermore, I will occasionally use satire or parody herein. The bottom line: it's my house. I like having visitors to my house. I hope you are entertained. I fight for your right to free speech, and am thrilled when you exercise said rights here. Comments and e-mails are welcome, but all such communication is to be assumed to be 1)the original work of any who initiate said communication and 2)the property of the Mudville Gazette, with free use granted thereto for publication in electronic or written form. If you do NOT wish to have your message posted, write "CONFIDENTIAL" in the subject line of your email. Original content copyright © 2003 - 2011 by Greyhawk. Fair, not-for-profit use of said material by others is encouraged, as long as acknowledgement and credit is given, to include the url of the original source post. Other arrangements can be made as needed. Contact: greyhawk at mudvillegazette dot com  Tending Distant Far from hearth and home, watching What tales we'll tell When things grim Some distant sunset, vision fading Saluting fallen friends whose names - Greyhawk, Baghdad, December 2004 |
Greyhawk,
You missed "Predator assists jihadi mortar control team in achieving martyrdom"
http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=video/video_show.php&id=5291
Are there any Navy people here? I need help plugging the bung hole in my boat.
Hello? Hello? I'm a celebrity, dammit!
This latest press release congratulates the nation of Islam for the success of Hurricane Katrina as proof of Allah’s wrath upon the Unbelievers
So the earthquake in Bam, Iran was Allah's wrath on who then...?
Great roundup! Thanks.
" More than 18,000 active duty members are currently supporting the disaster relief efforts in the U.S. Gulf Coast. This is in addition to the 42,990 Army and Air National Guard members already supporting operations in the area"...
61,000 soldiers... Isn't that about the same number as is currently deployed in Afghanistan?
Seems to me, there weren't enough (any) embedded reporters with the National Guard and active duty military units. *cough* *wink*