Soliders Flies Home in Company Jet

A Midwest Company Shows Its Gratitude To Our Soldiers

Four days isn’t a long time. If you don’t believe it, ask a soldier who’s on a quick visit home before heading off to Iraq… That’s how much time 2nd Lt. Goddard of Oskaloosa and 170 other soldiers in her Army Reserve military police battalion had.  They had been in pre-deployment training at Fort Dix, N.J., and went en masse to the Philadelphia airport to catch flights home for those precious four days.

Is The Surge Working?

Dear ’Swampies,’ 

Is the surge working? You tell me!

I say, ‘How can it not be?’ We’re in areas that no soldiers have pressed upon for months and, in some cases, years.

Here is a news source that comes to you from the front lines in Iraq.  Seven of our eight companies are living out in sector [at coalition outposts], among the people that they are working with.  Our soldiers are conducting operations and patrols in their sectors daily.  We’ve got al Qaeda… JAM… and JAI (Jaisch al Islam) discombobulated, and we’re showing the people there – people who might not have seen an American soldier in years – a sustained presence, catching bad guys, building checkpoints, providing medical care, and making life safer and better for them.

-The Foxhound-

SHE CALLED HER BRAVEST AND BEST

SSGT Dean reminds us that when we were attacked, we put aside (briefly) our differences on race and political issues and that unity is what motivates him to fight to defend all our rights to be free and disagree.

SSGT Dean delivered another rendition of “She Called” in front of a local war memorial (NC?) and introduces his performance with further explanation. In it he describes how the September 11th attacks weren’t just something that happened to people in New York, or at the Pentagon or a field in Pennsylvania. It happened to all Americans regardless of race or political affiliation.