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Well - squiggly lines and a clock.
As set out here.
Ah, those cheeky monkeys!
Story here.
Keeping in great Spirit the 1st Battallion 4th Marines, Bravo Company 3rd Platoon has produced this hilarious Christmas video. Out of ECP1 in Fallujah, Iraq.
We would like to thank everyone who has supported us through the first half of our deployment. This project was a challenge for me but in the end quite worth it. Merry Christmas everyone! -Nick HesselgraveOur Twelve Days of Christmas in Iraq
1- full resupply of TP
2- megafones
3- crappy humvees
4- portajohns
5- hours of sleep
6- rusty dumbells
7- months deployment
8- IPs(iraqi police) dancing
9- sentries standing
10- hours posting
11- bags of trash
12- freakin' flies!
Gotta luv them Marines. Merry Christmas!
You can also leave them a comment to wish them a Merry Christmas.
...in the Bastion of the Battered Bastards of the 101st, Bastogne.
Yes, it's a bathtub and it's part of a Navy screw up.
It could have been a whole lot worse, but it started the tradition of greeting a U.S. Navy destroyer with "Don't shoot! We're Republicans!"
As set out here.
And it was the servicemembers at Camp Victory that threw it at the CINC.
Video of it here.
...drop?
Just out of curiosity, since this guy apparently claimed to be so concerned with "Iraqi widows and orphans," I wonder how many times he hurled his size 10's at the previous Iraqi "President-for-life-or-at-least-until-the-U.S.-invades-and-pulls-me-out-of-a-hole"?
I think the fact that this "journalist" still had his eyesight and all his limbs answers that one.
Unless, of course, it was actually Keith Olbermann disguised as a puerile, Bush-hating crank who throws like a girl. In other words, Keith Olbermann!
Driving along on a U.S. highway in the middle of the country, you might spot a old NAD.
As set out here
..with the Presidential Citizen's Medal. Sinise wasn't tootling his horn and underplayed his achievements:
After receiving his medal, Sinise told reporters that he had volunteered to help the USO after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, sending school supplies to Iraqi children. The White House cited him as a humanitarian and a patriot."I'm deeply touched to receive this medal," Sinise said.
(h/t Dirty Harry via Ace)
Urgent. Thousands of Soldiers may go unloved this Christmas!
Thanks to the support of loyal friends like you, Soldiers' Angels has sent out thousands of WRAPPED IN HOLIDAY SPIRIT care packages to our soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan or recovering from injuries in a hospital far from home.But now we have an urgent situation on our hands...
We have run out of funds to pay for the postage to ship out the remaining 40,000 care packages!
It is absolutely critical that we raise $150,000 in the next three days to send out the remaining 40,000 care packages for our soldiers so they arrive in time for Christmas!
Each of these packages has been lovingly packed by our caring volunteer "Angels," but without your immediate help they will not get into the hands of one of our heroes in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Along with a handmade blanket, each care package includes snacks, hot chocolate, a stainless steel travel mug, socks and a handwritten holiday card.
I can't bear the thought of thousands of our wonderful soldiers being left out and ignored this Christmas. And as a loyal friend to Soldiers' Angels, I'm sure you agree that we can't let our brave men and women down. No soldier should go unloved... especially during the holiday season.
Worse yet, the wounded will be recovering from their injuries at military hospitals... feeling homesick and very alone. Please, can I count on your support so that we can show each and every soldier how much we care for them?
Your generous support at this time would be a Godsend.
To donate now please click here. (http://www.blanketofbelief.org/FinalCall)
The only way Soldiers' Angels can complete a job of this magnitude is to enlist the help of patriotic, caring Americans like you who support our troops.
Captain K at Wordsmith at War has FIRE IN THE NIGHT coming out soon. You can also find his writings in War Is... Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War 
And Sgt Mom from The Daily Brief has a Trilogy: The Gathering, The Sowing and The Harvesting that are already available at Booklocker.
A FRIENDLY REMINDER: TODAY'S THE DAY -- CHRISTMAS CARDS TO MILITARY PERSONNEL M/B POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN TODAY!!!
This holiday season, Americans can send soldiers and wounded troops greeting cards — even if they don't know their names.After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the anthrax attacks, the Pentagon required that mail addressed to "any soldier" be returned to the sender, leaving Americans without a way to send mail to soldiers whose names they didn't know.
But for a second year, an American Red Cross program is allowing the public to send holiday greeting cards that aren't addressed to a particular soldier. The cards will be screened, sorted and distributed to military hospitals and bases nationally and overseas in time for the holidays.
So I saw my first 42" plasma television in a middle class Baghdad home in the southwest section of the city today, a place which a year ago was an insurgent haven. Not so much anymore. (I neglected to ask the family whether they could get Netflix delivered yet. Maybe next year).
From spilling plasma to chilling in front of one. LG, indeed.
Doing the job Americans won't do.
Pirates beware -- Blackwater Worldwide may be looking for you, and soon. That prospect certainly would shiver Bartholomew Roberts, better known as "Black Bart," down to his timbers if the infamous pirate hadn't been dead for the past 285 years.Funny thing is, the MCAUTHUR's hull is light blue and their helicopter is a dark lavender. When did Blackwater go all metrosexual on us?The North Carolina-based security firm, which came under fire from Congress over a shooting incident in Baghdad last year that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead, announced in October that its 183-foot ship, the McArthur, stands ready to assist the shipping industry as it struggles with the increasing problem of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and elsewhere.
"Billions of dollars of goods move through the Gulf of Aden each year," said Bill Mathews, Blackwater's executive vice president. "We have been contacted by ship owners who say they need our help in making sure those goods get to their destination safely. The McArthur can help us accomplish that."
CHAFF .... CHAFF ..... CHAFF ....
Snowball Express started in early 2006 with a simple idea: America should honor and pay tribute to the children of those military fallen heroes who have died while honorably serving since 9/11. In December of 2006, nearly 900 family members from all across America and the world gathered in Southern California for an unforgettable holiday gathering. Kids and widows discovered they weren't alone. And they found they weren't forgotten.It was a totally volunteer effort which came together in just a few months to create the largest all-expense-paid gathering for the families of our fallen warriors since 9/11.
In 2007, another unique event was planned for the week after Thanksgiving. This time, over 1,100 children and surviving parents attended as guests of Americans, corporations, and service groups who donated their time, money and resources to create another healing event. Nearly 400 family members attended Snowball Express for the first time. See the smiling faces HERE.
Not every battle goes the way you would like.
Sometimes you take your beating and live to fight another day.
An example here.
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