O/T...Pray for my neice....and all the others who serve....

thats the hardest part being on the homefront, wishing you could protect em. no matter how much training you go through, there is still a piece that cant be prepared for. my only hope is she can get through it, watch her back, and stay alive and safe. deal with the rest when she gets safe.

 

she certainly has my respect and prayers; as do all those serving in the military, no matter what country.

 

She and all others serving, including my son in the 82nd Airborne, are in my prayers almost constantly all day long. Not a day goes by that I don't cry for them. God, grant them the strength and courage to make it home safe.

 

For those of you with family and friends stationed abroad:

If you'd like, PM me with their full name/mailing address.
I will forward it to OP S.A.M. and they will receive care packages when they do shipments... a little touch from home.

Ginger

 

I grew up military, dad was career ARMY, God bless her & her family. All are in my prayers every night.

 

I am the farthest thing from a religious person, but rest assured, our soldiers are in my thoughts everyday. Lets just "PRAY" that this insanity ends soon and they all come home. Don't know how many more tears I have left.

 

Homesickness sucks.

 

Homesickness it ain't.

Baghdad is very much Injun Territory. The last week has been bad because we killed Bin ladin's #1 guy here. Tends to piss of the baddies. We are fighting some of the worse of the terrorists in our hood. My brigade alone has been hit by more than 300 IEDs and found about 400+ of them. That's just us in our sector. If ya wanna know why there are so many I can tell you were they git the stuff. Saddam had shitloads of artillary and mortor rounds stashed all over the place pre 2003. I mean schools and other noncombat targets filled to the roof with the stuff. It was just impossible for it to be all found, secured and destroyed before the bad guys got to it. They stash it and we find it. Lots of it. We are taking the fight to these guys and it's good soldiers like the kid (i'm 39 so she's a kid to me) above who are finding most of those IEDs. IEDs are nasty and if she's seen a Hummer or truck hit by one I can understand her wanting to go home. It's not easy folks. Some of the hardest grunts have the same feeling Jen does after it happens, so she's not alone. I've seen what's left of the Hummers after they get hit. Sometimes it's not bad,,others its well....

I'll be talking to a soldier one day and the next thing you know he's gone. I wonder why them and not me. I've been a Fobbit since I've been here. Much as I've tried to get outside the wire, it never happened. But a part of me leaves everytime our guys roll outside the wire. It's harder losing your buddies than it is worrying about yourself I think. I know some of you know what I'm talking about. My company has been lucky so far with no KIAs. We leave right after the HAMB drags hopefully our luck holds. My prayers are with Jen as with everyone else here.

The one thing that those of us that are here or have been here know is we are doing some good; regardless of the media's war against the troops

PS: tell Jen to have her XO contact Fox company 526 BSB 101st ABN, about our gunners transparent armor. They could use it.

I'll say Hi if I see her. Where is she at? what unit is she with? I'm at Camp Stryker with 101st Airborne?

One of my guys

101st sergeant killed in Iraq
Soldier died of injuries from roadside bomb
The Leaf-Chronicle


A 101st Airborne Division soldier died Thursday of injuries from a roadside bomb that exploded near his convoy that day during combat in Baghdad Iraq, according to a news release today from Fort Campbell.

Sgt. 1st Class Clarence D. McSwain, 31, of Meridian, Miss., was an infantryman assigned to B Company, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, according to the release.

McSwain is survived by his wife, Kendrah, daughters Jasmin and Krista, and son Kenneth, of Fort Campbell; and parents Theodis and Sandra McSwain of Meridian, Miss.

Zeke

 

Like MrsA32 said above....

Thanks to you all...

 

"O/T...Pray for my neice....and all the others who serve...." Done

 

Was in the 101st at Camp Eagle,South Vietnam 68'and 69' I was a soft hearted kid who had a very hard time with the death and other shit that went down. Some of it gets to be more than you think you can handle and
you loose it for a little while. Then somebody says "hell, shit happens" and you get your stuff together and go back to work . No one can say that our young people are not as good as any this country has ever had.