3 Jan 2010

"first off — HAPPY 2010 !!! …and thanks to everyone for their wishes, and thanks a lot to all who had a drink for me…well, this year started off with a bang — road trip to Kandahar…it was a long and adventurous trip…we started the year with a pre-mission briefing…there were lots and lots of red spots on the road–indicating found/exploded IEDs in the past 90 days…in one section the entire road was covered with red… we couldn’t even see the road, just hundreds of red marks all jumbled together…we knew there was lots of bad shit out there, but I didn’t realize how bad it was till I saw that intel map…"
Desert Consciousness