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yesman065 · 07-30-2007, 08:21 PM

Subject: Life in my little neighborhood

Well since you have asked me "What is it like in your neighborhood". I have put in a couple of picture of "CDR Ray's little world". I am sure everybody had a nice quite Saturday night, here I am ready to spend an exciting Saturday night in the hooch after a 14 hour day. Big event was to get the laundry done and relax. Sunday is a half day for me I go in around 12:00 noon and stay till 9:00 pm getting all the weekly reports updated and sent out to. Now behind the hooch we have one of our many community "bunkers". Spent a lot of time in their when the rockets/mortars where coming early in the morning or very late at night. It is one heck of a way to meet your neighbors up close and personal! You always got to get some kind of shoe on when you go in for scorpions have been known to be in the bottom of these bunkers because of the desert heat. You definitely look before you leap, (if you have the time)!

Now most of you have nice fences in your backyards to keep your pets in, well not me! Right in front of me is the "T-wall" fence to keep the neighbors from across the river out! We even have a guard! Now I know most of you do not have that! You just got to hope that the guy up there does not fall asleep or else you could be in for a interesting time if the "neighbors" from across the river decide to swim over and visit you and the guard is asleep! I live right on the front line.

Sunday the Iraqi soccer team won its game against Saudi Arabia and of course all of the fans were out in the city shooting off their weapons. We were able to shut down traffic and issued and enforced a no vehicle movement policy in the city to try and stop the VBIED's/ truck bombers from getting in and doing what they did last time. It seemed to work for we had no reports of a VBIED's going off. The bad news is that 7 Iraqi's got killed by the celebratory fire in the streets of Baghdad.

Here in the command, the word was put out that all members were to get inside before the end of the match and wait until the "all clear" was sounded before leaving the building. We knew that all of that "celebratory fire" was going to becoming our way and it did. Well, it looks like we had a Navy Captain who decided he wanted to go out early and head back to his hooch. Dumb..Dumb..Dumb. He took an AK-47 round to the head. He did not die, but that sure was dumb!

You have at least one more month of summer - so get out and enjoy, use the sunscreen, be careful around the grill, don't drink too much and by all means stay cool.

CDR "Downtown Baghdad" USN

07-30-2007, 08:21 PM	#46
yesman065 Banned - Self Imposed Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,847	Life in my little neighborhood Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:54:51 Subject: Life in my little neighborhood Well since you have asked me "What is it like in your neighborhood". I have put in a couple of picture of "CDR Ray's little world". I am sure everybody had a nice quite Saturday night, here I am ready to spend an exciting Saturday night in the hooch after a 14 hour day. Big event was to get the laundry done and relax. Sunday is a half day for me I go in around 12:00 noon and stay till 9:00 pm getting all the weekly reports updated and sent out to. Now behind the hooch we have one of our many community "bunkers". Spent a lot of time in their when the rockets/mortars where coming early in the morning or very late at night. It is one heck of a way to meet your neighbors up close and personal! You always got to get some kind of shoe on when you go in for scorpions have been known to be in the bottom of these bunkers because of the desert heat. You definitely look before you leap, (if you have the time)! Now most of you have nice fences in your backyards to keep your pets in, well not me! Right in front of me is the "T-wall" fence to keep the neighbors from across the river out! We even have a guard! Now I know most of you do not have that! You just got to hope that the guy up there does not fall asleep or else you could be in for a interesting time if the "neighbors" from across the river decide to swim over and visit you and the guard is asleep! I live right on the front line. Sunday the Iraqi soccer team won its game against Saudi Arabia and of course all of the fans were out in the city shooting off their weapons. We were able to shut down traffic and issued and enforced a no vehicle movement policy in the city to try and stop the VBIED's/ truck bombers from getting in and doing what they did last time. It seemed to work for we had no reports of a VBIED's going off. The bad news is that 7 Iraqi's got killed by the celebratory fire in the streets of Baghdad. Here in the command, the word was put out that all members were to get inside before the end of the match and wait until the "all clear" was sounded before leaving the building. We knew that all of that "celebratory fire" was going to becoming our way and it did. Well, it looks like we had a Navy Captain who decided he wanted to go out early and head back to his hooch. Dumb..Dumb..Dumb. He took an AK-47 round to the head. He did not die, but that sure was dumb! You have at least one more month of summer - so get out and enjoy, use the sunscreen, be careful around the grill, don't drink too much and by all means stay cool. CDR "Downtown Baghdad" USN