Latest from Iraq

Send me a pic of "the catch" as an attachment. It's not showing up on the puter here on the blog page.
Things here are okay, but alot better than the first time. We're at one of the camps at the airport, but not Liberty where all the vehicle born IED's (VBIED) are or where that 120 missile attack was back on 1 June. I'm at Camp Striker. Baghdad Airport or BIAP, is really big. We live in tents with wood floors, AC and sand bags stacked up around them outside. The dining facility is okay, but Kellogg-Brown and Root (KBR) puts a much better spread on than any other military DFAC I've been in. I don't think I'll lose as much weight as I did the first time. We have 2 free i-net cafe's, but you only get 1/2 hour sessions and one of them is like a sauna. We've got a couple Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) tents with TV's, PS2's, X-Boxes (for the kids who still play video games) a small gym, and a phone center that there's hardly a line for since most of the guys from 10th Mountain have left. I did get to see a friend of mine from chemical school who's with those guys a couple days before he left. He's now home safely at Ft Drum, NY. Got an e-mail from him the other day.

Since there really is no chemical threat any more now that we've gotten rid of Saddam, my platoon's primary is providing security escorts for the brigade civil affairs section. We roll with our humvees with either M240B's (7.62mm machine gun) or .50 Caliber machine guns mounted on top to take the officers to meetings at the Green/International Zone where the embassy and all that is or sometimes to meetings with contractors in town. Kids try to sell ya' bootleg DVD's and watches. I've bought a couple and won't buy any more because they don't work on my laptop.

Well, that's about it for now. Will try to keep y'all posted as things go on and time allows. Most of my i-net time is spent checking e-mail and im'ing Michelle. Love y'all.

Chris