it great to hear your coming home soon! a big thank you to you and your men for all the hard work yall have put in for us.
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Thanks! Me and my guys will be looking foreward to that! I will need the reading material in Kuwait I think.:)Originally posted by Caffiend
Good to hear everyone is still safe Doobie. I sent the package out on Monday, so hopefully it gets there before you leave. It's just paintball magazines and cookies so I'm sure your replacements can use em
Again...thanks!
The gun is 1/8" of a game that is a FOOT long!
(...but a 'mag helps)
I know I was born and I know that I'll die...the in between is mine. -Eddie Vedder
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Hahaha!! Doobie's coming home soon!!!
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ShatnerBall, 2003 and 2004
D-Day at Oklahoma, 2001, 2002, and 2004
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hey, glad to hear you are coming home, but i have a question, what is an IED?
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Thanks Rob!! If we are able to go to IAO we will definately look you all up! And everyone else who's going too!! Seems like a lot of our buddies will be there!!Originally posted by Ice-Child
Trina and Doobie, you two make IAO and we have a hotel party every year at the four seasons. So come up and join us with the sponsors and vendors at the four seasons. We are there every year, it will be a blast. Just look on the second floor for the Racegun Banner hanging from our balcony. Cant miss it.
Later
Rob Yaaa!!
I've forgotten the exact defination...but it's like a bomb!Originally posted by JonDaAzn
hey, glad to hear you are coming home, but i have a question, what is an IED?
AO SE - 2004
AO NE - 2004
AO SE - 2003
Ultimate Maddness, 2004
ShatnerBall, 2003 and 2004
D-Day at Oklahoma, 2001, 2002, and 2004
The Holy Grail at EMR, 1999 and 2000
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IED - Improvised Explosive Device. Home made bomb basically.
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MAybe I should have expanded on that IED thing. It is Improvised Explosive Device, as I mentioned but I guess that still needs explination. What some of the Iraqi Insurgents are doing is rigging old artillery shells or explosives so that that they can detonate them on command from a remote location. They vary in sophistication, from blasting caps and wires hooked to a car battery to remote controls like garage door openers. They place these along our most heavily traveled routes and hope they can detonate them when a convoy passes by. We were going out looking for them so we could have them destroyed before they were used. Dangerous business to be sure
They have gotten very creative in their placement. Sometimes imbeded in cement blocks, or in an old tire on the side of the road. We even heard of one being stuffed into a dead dog!
They have become less and less frequent in the past months and the ones we do find are not very big. That is a good thing.
The gun is 1/8" of a game that is a FOOT long!
(...but a 'mag helps)
I know I was born and I know that I'll die...the in between is mine. -Eddie Vedder
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How are you guys taking those things out? Id read that 50 cal sniper rifles were being used to take them out. Seems like a much better idea than getting anywhere near them. Are you even the ones removing them, or just looking for them so engineers can take care of it? BTW, you guys in Mosul are doing a great job. Seems to have calmed down quite a bit lately up there. My guess is that with the attacks around Baghdad now its prolly a lot of outside groups trying to get attention, and hopefully the local populace and government systems are maturing. Best of luck to you guys, keep up the good work and stay safe.Kosmo For President '08, '12, '16... However long it takes
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We call in EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) to take care of them. WE just secure the site until it is clear. We do have the .50 cal sniper rifle in the Battalion's inventory and there is talk of using them for just that purpose.
Thanks for the Kudos. We are trying our best.
The gun is 1/8" of a game that is a FOOT long!
(...but a 'mag helps)
I know I was born and I know that I'll die...the in between is mine. -Eddie Vedder
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Doobie,
It's good to hear you are you'll be home soon. I'd imagine you want to get back on the paintball field ASAP.
Stay safe until that plane takes off and you see the ground racing away at 150 MPH.Giant flying dogs are gonna give you a flame-thrower enema!!!
SUPPORT YOUR TROOPS!!!!!!!!
Chuff!!! Chuff!!!
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Caffiend: Hey thanks man! I got the package today. I should be good on paintball reading material for a while now! Whew!
The cookies are already going over well, too. Thanks a ton my man!
Doobie
The gun is 1/8" of a game that is a FOOT long!
(...but a 'mag helps)
I know I was born and I know that I'll die...the in between is mine. -Eddie Vedder
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WOW! you got them already?!? That's awesome, just under two weeks. Not bad at all. Enjoy Doobie! And be sure to share at least some of the cookies:)Comment
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just dropping in to say hi again, i also found some pictures that are supposedly personal pictures taken by the soldiers who captured saddam
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soldier w/ saddam:Comment
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