othing major going on in Iraq this time around. The weather is starting to turn cooler and the rain is moving in. Other than that it's been fairly quiet for this deployment. Since there is nothing going on, I am ready to go home. There is no need for...

Thanks to one of my Soldier's PFC Rosa, we were able to see this wonderful sunrise at the FARP this morning. The cloud cover is starting to build up in the area and cooler temperatures are showing up in the morning. Fall is just around the corner....

I know the photo to the left do not have anything to do with thunderstorms in Iraq, but just thought I would share with everyone what were are doing on this deployment. In a nut shell the helicopters come in and land, do not cut their engines off and...

The kids and I went to the beach last Friday (see our family blog post all about it) and the sky was beautiful and we watched the sun set and we saw a rainbow in the clouds! It was fantastic! I had never seen one like that before and the kids were...

Today was the first of many sandstorms in Iraq. We were on our way back from the DFAC (chow) when it started. It was blowing so hard that it was kicking up the sand and then causing it to rain mud. By the time we got back to our living area (LA) we...