Oerdin's Iraq thread.

[monkspider]

What a post Oerdin. Thank you so much for sharing that. We you, stay safe.

[Tripledoc]

Oerdin!

"In the pipe, five by five"

"Keep it tight people"

"Let's rock!"

Quotes from my favorite movie Aliens.

Stay safe! Are there any female officers where you are at! :0)

[Patroklos]

Rather frustrating to be siting here inport in UAE with a full magazine of Tomohawks when you are in Iraq fighting.

Stay safe.

[CorpusScorpius]

Man Oerdin I am catching the end of this & it does hit home (I live In Houston) .....I am x miltary & anytime U hear or see someone passing on in the military W/ a personnel account it is hard to deal with.......Take Care Man..........

[Lancer]

It's a sad thing when a good man dies, but in the end we all do. John Amos died before his time, certainly so as he left so much behind.

I'm thinking on his favorite movie and the stirring words of the William Wallace character to a Scottish army about to leave the field in the face of a powerful enemy. How could the army of his countrymen leave and forever wonder all their lives if they had stayed might it be different? They stayed and the English heavy cavalry met the Scotish pikemen.

I like a guy that likes that flick. So deeply sorry he had to die like that.

[Dinner]

I read this article the other day and it made me think of Roscoe. http://65.54.246.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?...ebook%2f040504

The article talks about the various pets which GIs have adopted here in Kirkuk. I've seen the ratz's two dogs as well as 1-21 TOC's six geese though I never got to see the hedgehogs before they were released back into the wild.

Here at the CMOC we have four unnamed stray cats, one named cat named Linus, a small white female dog named lady, and an old scared and beat up male dog named Scareface. The CA company bought two black goats which we've named Bill & Bob. Bill & Bob are two confused little boy goats who keep trying to hump everything in site. They've tried to hump the dogs, a humvee, and even each other but they're single favorite past time is to eat everything in site. I've seen those two chew on everything from tin cans to drop down ceiling material (from the Mahoberat building that got hit with two JDAMs during the war) and they do a nice job of trimming the grass.

One day we're going to have a goat roast and then B&B will become Kabobs but until then we have mobile trash collecters.

[Last Conformist]

Is 'Mahoberat' the same word as 'Mukhabarat' (the Egyptian security service)?

[Dinner]

I have probably spelled it wrong but the Mahoberat was Saddam's secret police. The compound I live in used to belong to them and it comes complete with torture cells, "guest housing", barracks, and a 15 foot high security wall though the main office building had an unfortunate incident with two 2,000lb American bombs.

[Last Conformist]

Transliterating from Arabic isn't an exact science. Seems likely they're the same word, then.

Thanks, and take good care!

[Mercator]

That link was messed up Oerdin... Here it is unscrambled: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/di...otebook/040504

Still an excellent read, this thread. Unfortunately it's not all good news. Stay safe.

[Barinthus]

Torture chambers?!? Have you seen those up close? It must felt strange to be in one. :shudder:

[pchang]

Of course, you can also use it to violate general order #1 in spectacularly kinky ways.

[Sirotnikov]

Mukhabarat is an arab word usually meaning Intelligence, like Istakhbarat. Akhbar means information or news. It's the same 'root'.

[Sirotnikov]

In arab countries there are usually only one major intelligence service that deals mostly with inner intelligence and suppression of revolt.

[Space05us]

cute lil' mutt.