Hi everyone. Another interesting couple of weeks here in Iraq. I traveled down to Baghdad last week for four days visiting our Task Force Command Center and also stopped in to see one of my guys I have doing some temporay duty down there. I went to Camp Victory which is located right next to Baghdad International Airport (BIAP). Apparently the base used to be a hunting and fishing preserve under Saddam. The center piece is Al Faw Palace which is where Multi National Corps - Iraq (MNC-I) is located. The big boss is Multi National Forces - Iraq (MNF-I) located in the center of Baghdad in the Green Zone. There are a number of lake houses ringing the main lake that the palace is located in the center of. If you where one of the inside group of the Hussein's you would be invited to the lake for some hunting and fishing.






















After alot of troubleshooting we finally have our satellite voice system up and running. Using this we can talk almost anywhere with a unit that has the same equipment.

I hope everyone has a good Turkey Day tomorrow, I hope we get turkey at the DFAC.........


Jolly Roger 14 out

Salutations all. We'll I left Norfolk three months ago, normally this would be the halfway mark for a normal underway deployment. We will see what the next few weeks brings in regards to a return date (crossed fingers).



It is still the same ole stuff, different day around
here. i have been pursueing some side projects to help fill my days. One is getting a SATCOM (Satelitte Communications) voice circuit setup for our EOD teams that are WAAAAY out in the boonies. Another is trying to establish a standard for EOD response vehicle communications. I was able to order some goodies to install in a cougar which is an awesome vehicle considering the
IED rich environment we are in here in Iraq.


Here I am setting up a SATCOM antenna.













I am down to four personnel including myself here in the N6 shop. I have one TDY to Baghdad and I had to send one home on emergency leave (mother in-law died). So we are now down to the are minimum to support the Battalions Communications and Computer needs on a 24/7 basis. We have some more generator mainitenance coming up so hopefully we will not have any problems when we bring our system back up this time (MORE crossed fingers).

I have finally climatized to the latest temperature drops here, it is about 42 degrees in the morning and gets into the low 60's in the afternoon's. Currently it is 49 degrees at midnight and I laughed when Robyn offered to send me some longjohns after I had first got here............

Thank you all again for the packages/cards/emails (especially the funnies).

Squidly out (that Chris guy)