I was over there from July 2008 - Feebruary 2009. I was at Camp Al Taqqadum. I only got off base for about a week, laying a fiber optic line in on the Iraq Army side of the base across the street, Camp Habbaniyah. It was pretty quiet when I was there, more like Club med with Machine guns than a real war. But, as I said, I was never totally outside the wire. We did have some jackass down in Fallujah run a gas truck full of explosives into a police station. We felt the blast from 17 miles away. Other than that, it was rather uneventful. seamusharper could probably tell you more combat stories than I can. I can tell some stories about day to day life and cutting through power lines and water mains with a ditch witch!

Iraq is pretty much a done deal now. If you wanna talk about whats goin on now, Afghanistan is the hotspot. I'm supposed to be going in about 6-7 months. But things change. I may end up staying here!