Ya, Iraq and Afghanistan are EXTREMELY different ... night and day. I spent most of my time in Iraq in Sadr City (Baghdad slum) which is the most rat infested nasty craphole slum you could ever imagine. If you ever get the chance to visit, don't!

In Afghanistan, I traveled all over mostly ... I was on a mobile training team. Spent some time in Khandahar too.

Same same, if ya wanna talk, let me know.

Here's me on the far left.



Thanks bout the truck. The tires are great. I had to do some minor trimming, but there is no rubbing at all.

 

Nice body armor, I remember when all we had to wear was IBA with front and back plate, those were the days now they make us wear a dam bomb suit(hence what I am wearing in my pic). That picture reminds me of how dam trechorous those mountains are in afgahnistan.

 

lol so ya'll got the throat piece the inner side armor, the shoulder pads, and nut plate? or did they add some more **** to it? lol fun times.

hey Hylander, you didn't happen to know a guy named Hennen did you? it's a long shot, but id thought id ask.

we were in iraq together and then he went to Khandahar. he was a sniper from south louisiana. E-6

 

No, sure don't.

Yup, some units are still like that, fortunately I wasn't in one of them!!!

 

lol dude i sure didn't know you had been over there. where are you originally from? that accent sure as hell can't be from around here

here's a pic of us right after a patrol
(i'm far left)


1st day, 1st mission, driving lead, 2 hours into a 13 hour patrol...
1st ied of the battalion... gotta love my odds
a little mortar round that was thankfully buried just a little too deep...
ya'll know how that goes.

 

Yup, couple trips now. No, not from here, lol. I'm originally from Upper Michigan (Marquette to be exact) but been in the Army since 1988. Only been in Abq since mid July.

Damn lucky!!! Sounds like my luck. We'd just arrived on our FOB in Iraq and were unloading our LMTV into our building when we took a 107 rocket. It took out all the glass on the drivers side of the LMTV, put a hole in our water buffalo, but even worse put a hole in the AC condenser and water tank for our building!!! Hadn't been in country 6 hours.

 

lol that blows. did ya'll fly in or did you make the road trip? i know they were SUPPOSED to end the roadtrip into country and just start flying everyone, but i'm not sure how that ended up.

it sucked because my humvee was BRAND NEW. i actually unloaded it from the docks in kuwait city. still had the plastic on the seats and when i first got in it it had 20 miles on the dash....

180,000 or so later it still kicked..... kinda. she had the hell blown out of her about 13 times...

 

Yeah no more road trip, just flying.

 

be damn glad they quit that ****. 3 days of driving with 300 or soo vehicles is stupid.

using the same route day after day after day for 4 years...

sigh....

 

That 50 rule in the city does not apply everywhere I guess. Nobody leaves our FOB without em'. I am on my 13th month lookin at getting home to my truck. The whole be carefull driving when you get back... I have to say it was a little akward driving on leave when I went back home.

 

You buy a truck through OMSC?

 

I just ordered a 2" AS leveling kit, 285/65/20 BFG's, Magnaflow 16616, and a K and N intake, wow that was expensive. Now I am still not sure what rims to go with but I will figure it out later. Sure is nice to be home and finally have my truck!

 

awesome man! hey send me a pm or email or something. my email is crash_lucky13@yahoo.com.

and don't buy anymore truck parts.

just get ahold of me asap

 

Nice truck, bet 'ya can't wait to start moddin'!!

 

Yeah I have already started I ordered a bunch of stuff already.