T.V., BEER, DISHNETWORK, & SUBWAY

Duuuuuuuuude I know what your thinkin "Post more pictures prick!" or damn that Roo is one sexy mofo.... Either way dude I know and I'm sorry. Maybe in a month or so when I get a comp and the Army pays a mutha fucka. Pimp snookey needs that Platnum Grill Beeeeeeotch! The other night I was watchin t.v. and I was like dude t.v. and dishnetwork fucking rock. I can order movies and shit and watch people beat the shit out of eachother on Spike or order a fight on PPV. And let me tell you man the last UFC 56 was dope. Matt Hughes has a sick submission game now man and Rich Franklin beat the SHIT out of Rizzo... Rizzo talked all this shit and got K.Oed in the first. Oh and now his nose looks like an S. Rad. That dude and t.v. in your house just rocks cuz if you want a beer or a sammich you just get up go to the kitchen and make one and its right there. Or if you want beer and a sammich and its super late you just cruise down to Dot Mart and tank you veddy much sir.... Ohhhhhh but the breastest is taking at phat dizzump on your own shitter when you have the A.C. set to Fort Drum.
Ok. So anyway my Subway visit was the shizzle. I love subway but I can't remember if I told you about it or not. Oh well. It was dope. Holy shit this dude I thought was a dude sitting next to me started talking on the cell phone.... And its a chick. Scary very scary.
So anyway later on today or tomorrow mornin I will be drivin my silly ass to Kansass. I'm pretty excited. Florida is just to weird its like 80 here nice and toasty. I dig it though I could definitely cruise around in shorts and a beater all year long man no doubt.
Well I don't know what else to write about man but I miss all my bro's from the team. People don't think its funny when your randomly tell them to shut the fuck up or they don't think its funny when I rub thinks- with my..... um -its smells a little musty in here. Civilians have a strange sense of humor.
I just wanted to say that I love America man and out of the 12 countries I've been to this place is the best. Ya sure sometimes people suck here like people in customer service that are rude to you and stuff and need to come with subtitles, but man this place fucking Rocks. I was coming home from Tampa the other day and saw the Hard Rock Casino and was like shit main. I pulled over and went inside blew 7 bucks on slots and left. Oh ya and I took a pee pee. I actually was up like 20 something but lost it but hey it was a pretty rad rest stop. Ok folks I'll write more later and I'm taking pictures and shit and I'm trying to find a site where I can just post em and schtuff.... All right I have to go back to real life.... Peace!
Roodawg Out!

Home

Well its been awhile I know. Sorry so pics cuz I'm using the comp at the library. Getting ready to move to FT. Riley Kansas. I'm just making this post right now to pass the time while I'm waiting for people at HRC Virginia to e-mail me a confirmation letter that they got my corrected contract for active duty. Thats been a fucking nightmare all in itself. Thats a tale for a different time. Ya so I'm Active Duty getting ready to go to Kansas. Apparently the 1st Brigade of something over there is redeploying to Iraq. My buddy assures me that they won't send me anywhere for 6 months cuz I just got back. But I'm thinking about volunteering to go. We'll see. I'm trying to get Ranger school knocked out too. So I've been rucking (road marching in BDU's and 45lb ruck) its great to see the walkers in the morning stare at me like I'm crazy. Its a way to pass the time. I'm so hungry right now I've been excited to get a steak n cheese sub from Subway. I wonder if if it will taste like shit like the dot head Subway on Danger. Sorry I hope Dot head didn't offend anyone. I'm not a biggot I swear. I hate everyone equally. Except for crackers and honkey's I hate them the most. I was always a big self loather. Anyway Dot head is the word for the week. Considering while I was in Iraq I was approved for a car loan through HSBC said and done but they had to wait for me to get back to the states to cut me the check. So I call them yesterday and they tell me that there is a 45 day window and guesswhat its day 45. So they are like you would have to rush and find a car and we would cut you the check today. So just reapply and that will give you time to look for a car. Me being the dim whitted ass munch which you all know and love agreed. So they transferred me to loan apps and guess who is on the line doing my app. Fucking hajji. Well I think it was a dot head so what ever tomato tammato fucking hajji. So I can barely understand this non-local national. We get through and she is like "So soddy sir your application has been denied. Thank you come again." So now I'm pissed and I say "Ok hows that nothing has changed and as of 20 minutes ago you had a check for me." "Ok sir I check." Then her terrorist -I'm sorry I'm profiling- my bad. I apologize I sincerely hope noone is offended. Ok I mean her manager gets on the phone. And just keeps repeating the same shit over and over to like I'm some fucking retard- even better yet like she is me trying to reitterate something to a fucking hajji who can't understand the American english coming out of my soup cooler. So I flip out and go into "Desert Mouth Mode" which means I said the word fuck about 42 times in one sentence and basically told her to pound sand using the word fuck 18 times. Yaay for school.
Was that a fun story everyone? So now I went through a different dealer who wants me to put 2500 down before they will give me a loan because my credit is so awesome. So now I need to find some shady Italians,- there I go generalizing again that will sell me a car for at least 27.9 APR. Ok I'm going now cuz I want to see if the Subway here will give me runny butt like the one at Danger. I'm even excited to see if Americans work there. Well I'll write more great stuff later so stay tuned and maybe I'll even get a computer with a keyboard who's spacebar works.
Ruark Out!

WARNING
The views expressed in this blog are not my own but come from the little voices in my head so if you are offended I sincerely apologize and your comments are welcome. So feel free to voice your opinion and exercise your rights as American citizens.... Or if your a haaji or a dot head as American vistors here on student visa's though you no longer attend school. Thank you. Roodawg

Kuwait

No pics for this post. Just a ranting. I'm here at the cybercafe cuz I'm board out of my fucking skull. I've finally been holed up in a tent with most of the HHC fucks I've been trying to avoid for a year. Well we're in Camp Victory Kuwait awaiting transport to Ft. Drum to Demob. Someother units are here as well like the 116th from the Pacific Northwest and the 278th I think from Tennessee. Waiting here to go home. A lot of the people from the HHC 42nd Id I was able to avoid for a year that was wonderful. Now being back together I realized why I didn't want them near me. Since this place has a alteration shop and CAB's are in abundance you see a bunch of people walking around with them. As I've posted before a lot of people are undeserving of this badge. I wonder if they realize that they are fucking poseurs and not deserving of it. Or maybe they in their own right mind think they are. It makes me fucking sick. I know 2 guys walking around with one because of a mortar strike at the chow hall. I know a couple more guys walking around with one because someone in their convoy had a negligent discharge with a rifle his fat ass wasn't even qualified to carry. It boggles my mind from listening to the story about the incident being told by people that were there how the folks with the badge on their chest can even wear it with pride. They know its bullshit how could they not. One individual who is wearing it used to be a friend of mine from the civilian world. He used to talk about going Special Forces and shit. Then when we were out here he had a Master Sergeant pencil whip his PT test. Their excuse "well the first Sergeant did it" nice attitude. The same attitude that will plague the National Guard with incompentent leaders and out of shape, overweight Soldiers and leaders. I was afraid to really bash the unit before cuz they say that the Army checks these blogs and shit. Man I hope so. I hope they take a look at this unit and say holy shit this unit is fucked up. Thats 42nd ID HHC. Oh by the way did I mention that the SGTMAJ that wrote his guys up for a CAB due to a negligent discharge also left me and another soldier at the rifle range at Fort Drum before we came here? No. It was a whole van of senior and staff NCO's. By the good grace of god someone else from a different section ended up having enough room to drive us back. I have really got to get some pictures of these fat stupid fucks. You really got to see it to appreciate it. I've always been told to lead by example and never ask my troops to do anything that I would'nt do. I haven't seen that attitude at all from letting your troops eat before you to being the first person out of the chow hall one rounds are inbound.
Hopefully some of you poseurs out there will read this post. If you don't know you don't deserve here is the wake up call you fucking don't. You lesson the value of the award to those Soldiers out there who did earn it. I will see that award on your chest and know its a joke you make a mockery out of it through out the U.S. Army. The Army made a mistake by making the rules so loose so that you fools could get one because of a mortar strike, or a negligent discharge. Yet personal within the Division made it so stringent to be able to get a Purple Heart that my Soldier Jimmy Balls can't get one because he wasn't seen by a "medical officer" though the pictures are on here you saw his face that was peppered with shrapnel that an enlisted medic pulled out of his face, the goggles he was wearing that thankfully protected him from blindness, the weapon he had that took a piece of shrapnel to the feed tray cover the truck he was riding in, but he can't get a PH. He did get a CAB though. He got a CAB for surving small arms, 3 seperate IED attacks with a total of over 6 IED's. One attack being 2 seperate detonations on his truck within 7 minutes. Then there are tool boxes out there who got one for 1 fucking mortar strike. Lets not even get started on the eroneous issuing of Bronze Stars to staff officers that never left the wire. It should sadden and sicken you as it does me that these pencil pushers never left the fence and were awarded Bronze Stars while a majority of 11B Infantryman and combat armsmen out side the wire doing raids and facing the enemy got either an ARCOM or nothing. I heard of one instense where a female G1 soldier who got sent home because of a medical issue, and has been partying up eversince got a Bronze Star. Nice eh? Basically what I'm trying to say is that awards and medals in the Army are inflated and are being dealt out to the people that have time to sit down and write them because they didn't do shit their whole tour in Iraq but will go home and share in the accolades of being an OIF veteran. "Hey buddy what'd you get that CAB for?" "Um I don't really want to talk about it". Ya no shit I would be embarrassed too.. "So there I was eating lobster tail and drinking redbull when all of a sudden........BOOM. Amortar round explodes 30 meters from outside the chow hall. So I got up and left my food on the table and took shelter in a concrete bunker, with some pussy ass Col that told me to lock and load. So there I sat in the bunker and not another round landed and the all clear came and I went back to eating my lobster tail. I was a hero." Fucking Fags. Alright enough of my rant maybe I will have something positive to say in the days to come. I'll post again when I can.
Roodawg Out!
PS sorry for the piss poor grammar and the mis-spellings. I only have an hour on the computer so give me a break.....

Waiting for the Phone

Yo! Sup? I'm sittin here waiting for a phone to open up so I can waste phone minutes and try to call someone who cares. I decided to get another post in and actually post the pics I said I was going to. Tomorrow man off to Speicher and then to Kuwait and then to home. Not to sure on the dates and times couldn't post them anyway. Today we just broke down our rooms mailed out the rest of whatever we were gonna mail home, finished packing. Jimmy made spaghetti and it was bomb ass as usual. Dude can cook man. I heard it is snowing in NY that blows. My bags are about to explode they are packed so tight. I'd been good to go if I hadn't volunteered to pack Spantonio's flannel. My man Spantonio had a B-Day recently he was all poopy all day and knew we were plannin some shit. We got the cooks to bake him a cake and he got the coolest card I ever saw and we got him a hat and everybody signed it and wrote some cool stuff on it. He actually enjoyed it and we were all surprised. For awhile we were wondering if he had a bad incident with a Clown or something back before sex offenders had to register. Tasteless humor I know, whatever its my blog and I think thats fucking funny. Anyway-ya laugh I know your laughing. So anyway homebound man and I think a phone opened up so let me finish here. Here is me getting my ARCOM and my CAB.
Here is Drake getting his ARCOM and CAB. He got promoted again today. E-6 2nd award don't have pics from that but I will. Congrats man you deserve it.
Shit I'm having a bitch of a time figuring out the damn format so above is the pic of the CAB. I got it off the web so its a little shitty- my bad. To bad so many people out there have one for bullshit. The pic to the left is us in front of the bird. We had a pic with us and the CG's pilots but I failed to get that one. Man my bad. I will post more when I get back to the states and what not.
When I find a sight that will host pics I will post a bunch and provide a link on here. All right folks thats all for now. Until next time........

Final Post for a Bit

This Post is gonna be half assed so I'm sorry. Here are some pics from the final mission. The day we took our trucks to the 101st and left them. 2 days left well 1 technically and then to Kuwait. Ya we rolled out short and it made for an interesting trip. We made it over and dropped the trucks off and flew back. I might be off the net for a bit so I don't know when I'll be able to post again. I was gonna do a bunch of posts and pictures and write some long ass thing and stuff. But I'm friggin tired so you guys will have to wait. tired or lazy you pick. Sorry folks. I will make it up to you. So for you viewing pleasure...
Me taking a picture of me when I'm in the bird.
Getting the final mission brief.

The 101 guys doing a mission brief before they went out.
Ransry sitting in the hurricane seat of the UH-60 Blackhawk that we road in on the way back.

Gary was so happy he started humping spantonio. Well it was a birthday humping.

Awards yaaay we got Awards yaaay!

Dude I swear this computer tends to run like shit sometimes and I want to tap dance on the damn thing. Well awards day was on Sunday boy it was neeto fun. We got ARCOM's (basical attaboy you did your jobs) and the new Combat Action Badge. The Combat Action Badge was made for non-Infantry types so that they had somthing to show on there chest that says "Hey look at me I've been in the shit!" What it has become is a perverse attempt for POG'S to get a cool badge and promotion points. You got people trying to get this badge by saying hey I was (this is no joke either its true) "I was taking a shit and a Rocket hit the building next to me and landed 20ft from the porta john I was in and didn't explode. I deserve a CAB." or "Oh boy I was at the chow hall and a mortar landed 15 meters from me. Though it was only a 60mm and its kill radius is about 5m I need a CAB." Well shit if thats the case before you come to Iraq you should get one. Our COS (Chief of Staff) has been could about turning down the posers for their CAB's. Why in our very own office we have a guy so hard up for one he wants to go to Samarra after never having been there before 10 days before we are supposed to go home. Wow. The shitty thing about people getting the CAB for a mortar landing in the vicinity of where they were peeing, pooping, or working is, is that shit happens man this is war. If you don't ever leave the FOB and all the action you get is a mortar round or two that is what I like to call Combat Accident. Its some hajji droppin a morter a couple of clicks out off the FOB. He doesn't have you directly in his sights. There are some guys out there that rate this badge because they close with and kill the enemy. In our case we had 5 IED's detted on us in a matter of 10 fucking minutes. Then we got back to the PB Uvanni and rounds started flying past our heads and kicking up the dirt around our feet to where I was like fuck man how did we not just get murked (slang for killed) And before that Leto, Gotti, Drake, Eggs, and Spantonio were in the shit in Samarra on the last election day where it was small arms, mines, and IED's. So these Soldiers earned there shit. Risking thier lives everytime they go out on the road. But since the criteria for it is so loose we have to sit down next to some POG doosh that had a fucking mortar round land nearby. Give me a break. O.k. so with out any further ado. The picture of Spantonio and his shit eatin grin he is getting a Bronze Star and a CAB. It took the "Man" 2x to pin it right but its all good. Out of all the officers and other NCO's that got Bronzy's that day Spantonio is the only one really who deserves it. Try working in an HHC where your basically a fucking casaway. You rock Spantonio and from the Me and the Boyz we say congrats.
This here is Jimmy gettin an ARCOM and his CAB. We are all still upset and trying to get him his PH. You saw the pics from a previous post. They had to pick shit out of my mans face. Congrats Ballz!


Here is Eggsy getting his ARCOM and well deserved CAB. Congrats Eggs! We are also working on his pencil sharpening device since his ass has to sit on the phone all day now. We miss you brother and Congratulations.
Here is Jake gettin his ARCOM and CAB. Congratulations Jake and job well done especially after working in the "Cone of Silence".

Here is Chesty Gotti Puller. Look at that rack. My man got a PH, ARCOM, and CAB. He got the PH from that piece of metal they pulled out of his thick skull. Congrats Bro!
I don't got pics of me or Drake in here but Congrats to the Drake man. I'm gonna get a close up pic of the awards and stuff when I post Drake's pic. I didn't forget about you homeboy just be patient which I know is hard for you and I'll get to it. Alright people until my lazy ass posts again.... RooDawg Out!

Da Boyz cont:

This is our fearless leader Spantonio Banderas aka Dick Dragon, Poopy Pants. He is the one who got suckered into taking about of rag tags and in and forming a PSD for the CSM. I've known Spantonio for like 3 or more so years now. He is prior active duty and knows tons of shit. He is probably one of the best trainers that I know. If the guys are reading this don't think I'm kissin ass cuz its true. Anything you want to know about guns. This guy knows it. He is single so he can buy all sorts of guns. He worships at Gander Mountain also known as the church of Spanton. His extreme love of 80's music sets him apart from the whole group. He has also been known to go from good mood to shitty pants anywhere between 0-60 seconds. Me and Spantonio constantly pick on Gotti and then blame it on Drake. In his spare time you can find Spantonio hangliding on Dorito's or hoola hooping through Cheerio's. Out of all of all the senior NCO's in this whole division Spantonio is by far the most knowledgable... shit on just about anything because we know Army standards have long been forgotten here. The shitty thing is a lot of the officers and senior enlisted are blinded by their own incompentancy to listen to Spantonio has to say... ie. You have to zero a M-240B machine gun you just don't check them out and go shoot, things of that nature. He took a rag tag bunch of Soldiers from different MOS's and made them work together as a team and by far from what I've seen the best in HHC. Come on we work side by side with Tankers that got to count for something.
Alas I can't forget our great friend Red Bull. We recently got Spantonio addicted to this small sexy slim cans of heavonly bliss and energy. Mothers milk as we like to call it is a staple to our diet and healthy lifestyle. I recently red that one of the ingredients Taurine that can be found in Red Bull helps protect the muscles. On long hot ass trips we will usually pound about 4-5 of these succulent beverages. This most I've ever had in a day I think is 6 and man was I going. We have a cooler in the truck that we pack with ice and throw some Gatorades in there and some Waters and some Necture of the Gods (Red Bull). We have like 3 cases of this stuff in the trunk at anytime. Red Bull goes with a lot of things but stuff that we can't drink here. I'll name a few. Vodka, Jaggermeister, Jack Daniels, Jameson... You can pretty much drink it with anything... Alright folks until next time...... Roo dawg out
This is a picture of the inside of our Truck we moved the goods to the trunk though.....

Da Boyz

What makes a deployment easier is having a home away from home. You form a sort of a family. Whats great about it everyone has such a different personality and comes from different backrounds. We laugh and joke and hate eachother from time to time. Funny ass shit goes down when you got7 dudes living and working together for a year.
To my left we have my Ace my gunner Gotti. Aka Gotti, Deaf Bastard, Garin, GareBear, WhiteFolks. If you want to know anything about animals or lizards or what not. He is a Steve Irwin watching mofo. He sleeps kiddie corner to me and he likes it when I chase him butt ass naked around the room. He is probably the most supersticious dude I know. I threw this dumb ass die cast car out the window of the truck and he freaked out and we had to drive back and get it. Its funny though he instigates a lot of arguements just to get people roused and shit. The running joke is that I'm always super mean to him and then blame it on Drake. Me and Spantonio talk shit about him in the truck and he can't hear us. Don't get me wrong though I love him like my brother and I would do anything for him. Don't fuck with my Sleepy ass GareBear or I will fuck you up.


This here is Jimmy we all know Jimmy from previous posts. Aka Jimmy Balls, Lethargic, Old Man, Critter, the Hobbits, shit the list is really to long to put down on the blog. If you need to know something about an old T.V. show or music or how things were back in the day you ask Jimmy. If he don't know he will try to look it up on the internet. He is just starting to become computer saavy. Jimmy is like a cartoon character-an old one. No he is funny as shit and nice to boot. Except when you fuck with his food. The Poor hajji's at Speicher that have to deal with Jimmy if they mess up his order he will start screaming at them its great. We call him Jimmy balls because of an incident that happened at Ft. Drum involving a half naked Jimmy and a bottle of Tequila. We do have pictures to prove it Jimmy even though you don't remember. He is the best scrounger ever the guy can find anything and he is one hell of a cook. He keeps morale up around here by making dinner for us every now again. He keeps us on edge with his sneaky uncle jets boxers. We love you Jimmy but homie your still going to the home.....
This here is Jake our aspiring politician. Aka Download, HardDrive, DSL, and his newest Spanky..... hehehe. Anything political he has a really awesome grasp on if you have any questions regarding politics and how shit in government works you ask him. He won't just give you his own view of it he'll give you a broad view and a good explanation of it. He ran into a stroke of bad luck when he went on leave and he found out his (well I hate to air his dirty laundry but the bitch really pisses me off)hmmm whats a good descriptive... Well I whore comes to mind when thinking about a way to describe his cheating wife but thats neither here nor there and I would hate to bad mouth that harlet of a woman without the permission of my friend Jake. He has the best gay voice I've ever heard and keeps us in tears when he starts that shit in a crowded public place... I think he knows the lyrics to every song ever made.. Its amazing. He has the worst job out of us all though riding in the cone of silence.... We feel for you my man and if you ever want me to write a nasty gram to your loving ex you let me know. Like I said I don't want to air your dirty laundry about that filthy it goin rain ex of yours without your permission.
Eggsy, aka Eggs, Broken Eggs shit I know he has more nicknames I just can't think of them right now. Eggsy is the innocent one of the bunch. Jimmy had a tremendous bad influence on him and I think I almost have him sold on my infatuation with midgets. It will probably take a good couple of months for Egg's de-cleansing of his Jimmy tainted mind. He is a good church going guy and says a prayer before each meal. Its funny though cuz the guy has the foulest mouth when it comes to playin baseball or football on the X-Box. Him and Gotti usually have some interesting conversations on how the other would beat the other into a bloody pulp or what not. Eggs is just one of those guys who its really nice to talk to because of there positive out look on life. He is a hard ass dedicated worker and just a great person to be around. The poor guy hates the homo playin around that we do and we're all scared he is going to go psycho if Gotti flashin his beans at him again... Or anyone for that matter.

Drake, aka Drake the Snake, Super Drake, drrrrraaakkkkee, Wooly mammoth, Cowboy. This dude is just crazy. At random times he will be backing up NTV's or jumping out of his area yelling some crazy shit or cutting people with knives and he is constantly picking on Gotti. This guy has the rankest ass I've ever smelt in my life. Dude farts outside and makes the outside stink... Amazing. He is a super good leader and NCO, he is smart as all hell. He is our self taught commo guy and even though half the time you can't understand his ass cuz he talks like Boonhower from King of the Hill or read his hand writing cuz he writes like the 5 year old Iraqi kid hiding in Jimmy's foot locker <--Thats a joke... But it is true that you can't read Drakes chicken scratch, he is a great friend and very interesting to talk to. He taught us all about pookyalks (i probably didn't spell that right). He is a farmer cowboy guy and knows tons and tons about being a hilly billy country boy.

I'm not done yet there I still got to get Spantonio but its about the end of my shift so I'll have to get him tomorrow. If I went on to tell you all of the great things about my family here this blog would turn into a novel more so than it is already. I love these guys like I would love a perternal sibling. I would die for them and I know that they would do the same for me. Since Eggs has to sit out the last couple of missions now he prays for us before we go out. We talk a lot of shit to each other and give each other a lot of shit but god help someone from outside the family that tries that shit cuz there gonna get fucked up. I enjoy the conversations that I have with all these guys there is a little bit of everything and I learn new stuff from them all the time. When one of us has a problem all of us have a problem and for the most part every one in our little family knows everyone elses business. Like the thing with Jakes ass- wife we all hate that bitch and definitely have choice words for her. Most of the time we eat together breakfast lunch and dinner and sit down at the same table, on occasion some of the guys stay back and eat at the house. Its great when we all roll together for some group function everybody around us thinks were crazy cuz Jake will start with the gay shit or we will make fun of Gotti cuz he can't hear shit. Whenever we are in a room with any other G-shop or group from HHC you can tell where the comraderie and loyalty is. Its in our group. We are definitely the most outspoken out of all of HHC. Loud ass bastards. I guess its cuz most of us can't hear shit. No doubt in HHC the boyz have ate the most IED's and traveled the most miles off of this FOB. Well anyway I'm getting a bit sentimental and I haven't even started on Spantonio but he'll get his. So tune in tomorrow bat fiends. And ladys remember inverted means your ass ain't tryin. Thumb out. Roodawg Out!

Ok Ok A couple more for Tonight

Give me a break I'm bored as hell. I'm on phone duty man and I have nothing to read so I figure I would post more pics... Below we have my man gotti sleepin. This fool can sleep. I think that not being able to hear shit helps him out to. I damn near have to jump up and down on him to get him to wake up. I think I have a better one of him with his ass all hiked up in the air but I couldn't find it.














Here is a Camel that they have over at FOB Speicher. We were talking about liberating it at one point but we couldn't figure out how we would get it off the FOB.

This is the Pink Flamingo that over looks Tikrit Iraq and Protects our palace from getting mortared and keeps all the Hajji's in line. Jimmy Ballz at one point had this in the front yard and being that its the commanding General's house we figured we would put in the back.

This pic wasn't taken to long ago about a week or so ago. We were on our way to link up with our replacements from the 101st Airborne up at Speicher which is barely a 10 minute trip. About 5 minutes before we got to this spot in the road 2 IED's detonated on that patrol in the pic. They were on both sides of the road. So we took the little shitty side street to the right. Drake was driving and trying to fix his radio when we were pulling off so he didn't notice us going. We stopped to wait for him as my gunner good ol' Gotti called out that we were parked next to a bag that was tied off. So we hauled ass out of there. So far its been our luck to miss these IED's by like 5-10 minutes.....
This is a mad max lookin truck eh. You like how we spend your hard earned tax dollars?

I ain't done yet!

Nope not done a couple more... Sucks cuz the post only let you do 5 pics per post and this computers mouse has a touchy ass button so you think your clickin one time and it double clicks makes me want to dance on it stupid thing. So anyway this is a pic from the roof of Uvanni the significance of this pic is that if you look at the middle of the picture you see the road coming into the FOB you see that yellow wall to the left there well when we got blown up we were going from left to right of the area depicted in this picture on the other side of that building about to make a right onto that road and come into the FOB mean while 7Bu was on tow chains. As we rounded that corner to get onto the road thats where hajji detonated the 2nd round of IED's on us that were hidden in a pile of trash. Just out of sight of this OP.

This here is the Spiral Mineret in the middle of Samarra I guess we gave it back to the Hajji's and they blew it up... Like the Top of it. This pic was taken before that though.













I took this pic from the roof on top of Uvanni you can see the spiral mineret from there...
Just a pic of Drake, Leighton, and Jimmy Ballz hangin out in Uvanni.

Here is PB Uvanni in all its glory the only thing stopping the Hajji's from taking Samarra back completely. This PB was named after a Soldier from 27th Infantry Brigade of New York state. Sgt Uvanni was a former Marine and hard core NCO and was killed by a sniper in Samarra. The Soldiers here are under constant attack and get no hot chow and I already showed you there bathroom facilities. When me and Drake and Leighton were on the roof we talked to the Sergeant of the Guard for a bit. He was pretty out there but he was very interesting to talk to. He said that "...these fucking officers want to win hearts and minds. Shit the only hearts and minds I want to see are ones oozing out of a dead hajji." He told us that the hajji's don't respect us the only thing they understand or respect is violence and power.

Finally the Pics From the Last Trip to Samarra

Well I have to apologize for the damn pics taking so long. Its a pain in the ass process to get them from the camera to the computer. These are the last pics of us going to Samarra. Sweet no pictures of blowed up truck. This here is a pic of Drake and Leighton. Leighton is part of the C.G.'s crew but since Eggs is out we have him fill in. Trust me he's pimp or he wouldn't be able to roll with us. You know we keep it gangsta! You'll notice (I hope) the Golden Mosque in the backround. This pic was taken on the roof of Uvanni. Like I had said before every other time we've been to Uvanni they are usually shooting at someone from the roof. Not this day though.
Here we have the Golden Mosque this pic was taken at PB Olsen. You can see the Golden Mosque from there pretty good. The dome is made of 7,777 solid gold bricks (Leighton told me that shit). The scaffolding you see around it from what I heard is rigged with grenades and booby traps and stuff to prevent people from stealing them.


This is Ransry coming out of the shitter there at Uvanni. Like I said before just a wooden shithouse with a barrel to poo in.... Then some poor soul has to take it out and burn it.

This is what it looks like inside the shitter. Hope your not to grossed out. Well lookin at it ain't to bad imagine sitting on it. You can't see in this picture all of the fly's and stuff. You can see an ass worm in there though. Ya you go in and do your business and all the fly's resting there swarm your toosh.
Hey its good ol' me Pimp Snooky in the Kevlar. I'm posing with the Golden Mosque behind me. You know it is rather hard to look this damn sexy!!!!!!

Last Trip to Uvanni in Samarra

Well today was our last trip to Samarra.... (I think). You may remember Samarra from a post I did previously you know the one where we got the shit blowed out of us. Yeah that place. Well the unit down there basically put the city on lock down. So we rolled down the same exact streets that we got blowed up on and I video taped the whole way in and out. No explosions, no nothing. So all together a pretty good trip. Talked to one of the SGT's there who was on guard duty up on the roof. Those poor guys are smack dab in the middle of the wild wild west. They don't get any hot chow and they burn there shit. Not spoiled like us with the KBR food and the contracters that come and clean out our shitters. All the other times I've been to Samarra the 240 on the roof is blazin so thats why we decided to go up there and hang out. No luck today though. I took some pictures and I'll probably post them tomorrow. So if your viewing and are a little disapointed due to no pics I'm sorry. I'm still working on finding out how to post videos so stay tuned. Oh we did have a little bit of excitement as we almost had a head on with unruely Iraqi fuel truck driver who almost got smoked. Asides from that it was a decent trip. I only drank like 3 Red Bulls... Well folks I'll try to post dem pics tomorrow.... Until then. Hey and if your checkin this out try to visit a little more I'm a little embarrassed by my new hit counter that I got on the site.... Ruark Out!!!!

Where we Live

These are some pics of the house... We can't go poopy inside because the sewer pipes are big enough to hold our American feces. I don't know how that is since most of us have had a case of the runs since we got here. I got some anit-biotics and it seemed to have worked for me. Now my co-workers have aquired the shiets. They have dubbed it Roo-disease, in other words runny butt. Imagine spending most of your day in a porta john. Not to much fun. The good thing is we do have a shower and a toilet for peeing inside. Ya Were pretty spoiled.


We got our own gym in the building which is nice so we don't have far to go to work out, The picture of the wall there is a ballerina carved into the marble I don't know if you can see it to well or not.

Random Pics

I started this just to try and show some pics of stuff out here then I kinda got away from it by telling you what was going on day to day... So I figure I would get back to basics and show some pics... Stuff that every one likes... Blowed up stuff... Below is a pic of an Iraqi Soldier who was telling us that he love the United States.


This is a picture I took when I went on a trip to Baghdad with the MP's to pick up prisoners at Abu Gharib prison. This Mosque should look familiar because they show it a lot on the news and stuff. I got a lot of good vids that I've shot here and I've seen some other blogs with videos on there blogs so I got see if I can figure out how to do it and maybe hook you up with some good footage.

DA Pics

Man this computer pisses me off here are the pics that should've been with my previous post, enjoy.......here is my team the A team da pimpest team













Pimp Snookey in da hizooo
The boyz again and their sexy poses....

and our best Band of Brothers immitation.....

A decent day and some new pics

These pics in this post don't really have to much to do with the post.... If that made any sense... We decided to pose for some pics and they really turned out good. You can't even imagine what a pain in the balls it was to get Spantonio to pose man... Everybody else was apprehensive about it to you know getting the gear on and waiting for the sun to come up but once they saw the first couple I couldn't put the camera away. So I think that they turned out pretty good..

Any who.. It has been a pretty boring week we really haven't been doin a whole lot. Today we went to Speicher to meet our replacements from the 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" Them dudes were really cool. We are looking forward to going out with them. The trip was an interesting one. We rolled up on a unit pulling security that had 2 IED's go off on there convoy, in between the Trucks though so no one was hurt. We got there met the replacements and went over the trucks and TTP's and stuff then we went to Taco Bell. Another hellish day of war for the CSM's PSD. I guess I'm pretty pleased at the fact that I don't have anything to exciting to write about. 20 some more odd days left. Thats it and me and the 42nd will part ways thank god. I hope you guys enjoy the pics and I will try to throw some more up from way back that are a little bit more interesting........
Ruark Out!

Ok one more for the Night

Dude before I forget. Like a week ago we went to Speicher to get a new piece of equipment... Gary goes to get his hearing checked... Well the damn hearing machine is still broken so he tells them about this pain he has behind his ear. So the nurse or Dr. or what ever touchs behind his ear and says "Ouch". Well long story short they pulled a good size chunk of shrapnel out from behind his ear that was there from the first time the guys got blown up. The shrapnel had been in there for over 2 months. The pic here is of the post operation. He had no idea that there was a piece of metal in his head.... A quick note though even with it removed Gary still can't hear shit.... And he no longer pics up XM radio.


Jake testing out the "New Equipment"