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"

To The PSD Secret Admirer

I got a little comment from some "Secret Admirer" who wouldn't disclose there name and she (I'm assuming its a girl, though I guess it could be a dude you never know these days) he/she said that they wanted to see "more" of the Soldiers but this is a family blog and I can't be posting twigs and berries all over the blog... So we all posed for Sexy pics except for me... Though it did give me an idea I think I might make a little PSD calender........ So for your entertainment I present the men from the PSD....
Here we have Jimmy he is an older gentleman but he has no problem standing at attention if you know what I mean.......










Here we have Gary promoting the Red Bull...

Here is Cowboy Drake... I know how all women want a cowboy......

Here is Jacob our recent divorcee... He is in to long walks on the beach and interested in traveling abroad... In the below posts you've seen Eggs he is a single strapping young buck and well mannered fellow...... I would have posted pics of Spantonio Banderas but he gets all pissy when you try to take his pictures, but I think there is one on here of him in front of the TATA truck..... Enjoy....

Ode to Eggs

Here is a little story about our friend eggs "Eggleston". Eggs is a religious lil guy, well mannered (well when he isn't playing a sports game on X-Box but what does he expect when he choses teams out of the Capitol area). He isn't a Combat Arms guy but you wouldn't be able to tell that about him... Shit half the time I forget that he is a fridge mech... Hard working and reliable come to mind when talking about Eggs.... He was recently "benched" from the team and is currently riding the rest of the deployment out from behind a desk.. Not cuz we want him there trust me we want him out on the road with us... See Eggs wasn't supposed to come to Iraq he has a condition with his eye's where he gets something like Cold Sores on his eyes, and the sun, wind, dust, and heat aggravate the condition... So now Eggs has scarring on his cornea that will affect his vision later on in life. So the powers that be said no more... So he has to sit by the phone... I know he doesn't want to and I know we don't want him to.... He is the hardest refrigeration mechanic that I know... Eggleston is a damned good Soldier, got screwed into coming here by HHC (and a myriad of other people but I don't know the whole story so take it as face value that I might just be talking out of my ass) but he did his mission without bitching and to the best of his ability, when we got nailed in Samarra and the guys in his truck were out of the fight Eggs comes over the Radio and starts giving his LACE and a little sit rep and keeping us informed with whats going on. The picture of the crew below you see Eggs on the left with a big grin on his face.. Thats just an attestment to my mans character. Pretty much I just want Eggs to know and everyone else for that matter that we know you got screwed man and we would roll through the gates of hell with you any damn day of the week......

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Eggs in the moment....

This is an MLRS... Cool eh.
Me Gary and Drakems in the backround is Iran.


Good ol Drake eatin some Taco Bell....Me with Iran in the Backround Sorry for the shortness of the descriptions of the pics but it took me like a fucking hour to damn post the damn things... And Gary is waiting on me down stairs... Enjoy......



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Phone Booty

I mean fone duty.... We've went on a couple O trips since I been back... One we took out to some Mountain in the middle of nowhere to a retranstation where on top of the Mountain you can look out and see Iran I got some pics of that. Today we went out and came across a burning fuel tanker in the middle of the road all on fire and shit in the middle of no where... It was great.. Camp Speicher has a Taco Bell now.. Oh boy were we ever excited to eat some taco bell. The pictures I have here aren't to exciting but I hope that you enjoy them regardless. We had some long ass road trips man.. We were definitely some Red Bull drinking mofo's. I had like 5 and ol' Sarnt Spantonio and Gary had 3 a piece... do we ever love some redbull...We've been rollin with a handy horn to a loud as horn in a can. Its funny we honk it at hodgie and he just moves out... No IED's which is always good. Oh ya bad news the Red Dragon went down and now ol Ru is in 7 Ru thats the truck now... we nick named it PW.... Use your imagination. I'll be home soon... We are breaking things down here and getting excited to go home... Not to much longer.....Ya so nothing to exciting... I have to get around taking some mo pics of the Palaces and stuff around here.... If some of you folks would e-mail me and tell me what you want to see I could accomadate yall.... Damn I really don't have anything else to say.. The trips we had were uneventful... Well for us anyway.. Just the usual you know craters that make your turd cutter pucker burning fuel trucks... Ummmm ya thats it man... I promise to try to be more whitty on the next post... So to all you Angry American fans feel free to post and tell me what you would like to see or ask questions or something.... I was actually thinking about making a PSD calendar... I'll see what the guys have to say... Alright guys... I'm a post these pics and well watch the phone... Peace and RedBulls... and if you havent had it you should try it... A red Bull and vodka or something... Ok for real this time......
Ok this computer doesn't want to upload my pics so I guess I will come back tomorrow and up load them dammit....
Alright..... this is me Out!

Mo Pics from RnR

Man o Man this is my big girl. Believe it or not she picked out the bicycle. Well she picked out something different but then Toys R Imported along with our non english speaking employees pissed me off and lied to me for 3 days so I went to a respectable sporting store and got this one and wouldn't you know she loved it... She picked out the Camelflauge helmet. She is a tomboy I guess you could say. I taught her how to ride the bicycle before I left.. She just has to work on turning!

Me and my fresh pimp.. We have the same double chinner!
Me and my baby girl snoozin.. Or at least I was
Me and my man at the beach its his first trip... He loved it... Ya I know I need some sun and trust me I got it....
Me and the kiddiessss.... Not a very flattering picture of myself. Ya I'm still trying to figure out the whole format for this stuff and you know I'm lost so enjoy.... Roodawg out!

R & R

This is a pic of me and my lil Homie!---- Well folks I came and went. I was on R n R for a while (well 2 weeks) it was pretty nice. I got to spend time with my family. It was really nice to see them my boy got so big and my daughters even more beautiful than I remembered. We hung out and went to some theme parks and had a pretty good time. It was pretty weird being home.
I flew from Iraq to Kuwait then to Germany then to Atlanta. In Atlanta you walk up the stairs to the main terminal to catch your connecting flight to where ever your going. As I was walking up the steps the main terminal came into view and it was like a mall. It was so weird just people walking around like...... well like normal.. It was just a strange feeling. Meanwhile my brothers in arms and myself are wondering through the airport looking for our connecting gates to take us all the way home. We are in our desert camelflage uniforms mind you. Some people would stare and quickly look away other people just didn't pay any attention to us. Some folks walked up and shook my hand and said thank you. I walked to my gate and sat down. Nobody talked to me. Which is fine, but just a little weird I guess. All I could think about is how life goes on. Then a guy I recognized from the flight over sat down next to me. We bullshitted until it was time to bored the plane, a United flight no less. I sat towards the front and he sat towards the back. So I had no company for the last leg of the trip. I did sit and watch them give up 2 1st Class seats to 2 civilian women. That was nice. Can't complain to much cuz I did sit 1st class on the way back... The gas prices tripped me out a bit... Guess they can pin as high as they want and as the gas guzzling Americans we are we will pay that shit.... It will get upto like 5 then down to 3 and we will call it cheap... But anywho man I had a great time at home. Then as quick as it began it was over and it was time to bored the damned plane back... I was stuck in Kuwait for a couple of days which led to some ripe uniforms. I got back here and I start reading articles in the paper on how the politicians have outlawed the pledge of allegiance and how kids can't celebrate Christmas and how its just happy holidays. wow that shit really pisses me off. I swore to protect this country from all enemies foreign and domestic and I'm out here fighting a war on terror but back home its the American people who are slowly but surely stripping other Americans of civil liberties.. WTF over? Wow.... Crazy just crazy...
K enough of that. Well enough of that if there is anything you would like me to post or pics you want to see just e-mail me or comment and let me know....... Aight....
Its me Pimp Snooky.. It was so weird not wearing damned DCU's
Its my baby in her butterfly sunglasses... Man those things were crackin me up!

Man this girl got big and she is so smart its so crazy!!!!
Youll have to turn your head sideways on this one cuz I forgot to rotate it.. My bad but my man is still pimp in his Spongebob digs....