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www.everblueEnergy.com is co-owned by Co-Author Christian Boggiano. Chris@everblueEnergy.com

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When SSG Terry’s tank was re-armed and filled to the top with JP8, we grabbed what was left of hot chow off the back of a 5-ton and headed back to the stronghold area just north of Isabel to get ready for another night of fighting.I reviewed the events today. We spent all night last night desperately trying to staying awake along PL Isabel without actually advancing. Again we were waiting for

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Thanks for all of the posts, comments, and especially emails. I will be writing back to you. I got a lot of great ideas and some people even archived my stuff and sent it to me. Thank you.Bad news. I will be deleting the entries about Fallujah and anything describing our manuever, and I won't be posting anything new about Fallujah yet.Good news. I got an email this morning from a

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Suddenly my entries are all over AKO OPSEC websites. I would argue the ways they say it violates OPSEC except for the fact that OPSEC is very vague and can be defined in any which way by the entity enforcing it. Nobody has shut me down yet, but I figure it is just a matter of time. And I really don't want to do the Army any harm sooooo....What I want to do is put this blog on hold without

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I hate putting pictures of myself up but I just had to show you this obnoxious CVC helmet that SSG Terry handed to me as I climbed up on his tank. "You gonna be on my tank, you gonna wear this CVC."1800 I ran back to my platoon. It was a no-brainer of a maneuver. The Bradleys were not going to dismount any of their crunchies, to their chagrin. All I had was one tank I really need to worry

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We are 2.5 km south of the cloverleaf on MSR Mobile and 3 km east of the city. We are waiting for an escort to show up to escort this HET back to Camp Fallujah with my tank and crew on it 

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This photo was taken by SGT Stoker from SSG Terry's tank. His back is to the houses with the sniper that ends up shooting at us in a minute. My tank is facing north west and Phase Line Mike is a few hundred meters behind Stoker. You can see my track laid out. Underneath it are more tank mines, one of which SSG Terry kicked. Mewborn is in the driver's hole, Langford is up top. I am looking at

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I get a lot of emails from people who want to write an article for the school paper or talk to me on public radio. Well rather than forward the Q&A session via email to each new person, I thought I would post it here. I'm sure to catch hell with this one.Also for the record, I never said the Dell comment in that WIRED magazine story. It was a miscommunication between those guys and me, but

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This is a response to the buck shot question. This picture was taken a little after noon on 24 June 2005. We had just gone through the ambush in the city of about 100-150 insurgents. We had gotten halfway through the city when, as you can see, by turret was disabled at that angle. We turned around back through the kill zone and after escorting an M88 to a downed tank, I returned to Scunion to

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SSG Terry plowed a lane for us all the way from the eastern edge of the city where we had become disabled, all the way to the highway – MSR Mobile. There we waited about an hour for CPT Freihl, the TF2-2IN BMO, to arrive with a HET and an escort of humvee gun trucks.Someone somewhere along the way had the foresight to feed us because he showed up with one plate full of cold mashed potatoes for

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This is Chris's entry from his notes. I thought his perspective was interesting. This is where I wanted readers to get caught up. - Red 6.After driving out of the minefield area we turned south and worked our way along the outside of the city. Once we got to a good spot, we turned back into the minefield and pulled up to a spot near the big hole in the ground that I’d taken a crap in the day

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Something to jog your memoryI looked at my crew and recalled, “You know something. I remember being back in Vilseck in the freezing snow in January. We were standing in the parking lot in front of Company. And SGT Meadows was giving that stupid IRT(individual readiness training) with the mine probe.” The mine probe was this fiberglass rod with a rubber handle. And if you were ever stuck in a

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SPC Camp's first production...Long before we took back Fallujah.0:03 Mechanics and others flying into theater on C-17s. Most of us drove the 500km from Kuwait to FOB Scunion in wheeled convoys. It was the longest road march ever. By the end, people were hallucinating and sleep-driving from being up so long. But it was awesome and hilarious. Seeing stuff that isn’t there is like being on

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I received this email from a reader yesterday. I thought I would post it now after learning about the attack on London today:Hello,I'm all confused about what I would like to say to you... ok, let's getstarted: thank you! then: great job! and again: please tell your fellowsoldiers that there are many, many, many people supporting them, even inEurope (hey, I'm French. Can you believe that ?).Yes

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My side is here in case you guys want a refresher.CHRIS BOGGIANO: The Fighting BeginsTwo days after the rehearsal at Camp Fallujah, my platoon was instructed to drive up on the highway that separated the Fallujah and the rest of our task force at around 0900 on the first day of the battle - about 10 hours ahead of the main body, which was everyone else in TF2-2 besides us. Once up there, we were

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Well, I promised you guys the movie of SPC Roby blowing up an IED. And here it is. It's my first time, there isn't much cool music or editing so bear with me. I'm no SPC Camp. If the movie doesn't show up as "IED", just hit refresh. SFC Kennedy is in the front seat of the humvee that Roby is in. He is laying Roby's shots onto the IED. You can hear SSG Terry coaching Roby and telling SPC

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The First Leader’s ReconThree days before the battle kicked off, each platoon in our task force got to take one truck for what was supposed to be a reconnaissance of the city. Since I could only take one vehicle, I put the top leadership of my platoon all into one truck and we rode out along with the rest of the task force. Our little reconnaissance consisted of about 15 humvees with all of the

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November 9th Raw FootageI recommend going back to 9 November if it's been awhile.Red 8 and I took PL Fran.November 9-1: We are pummeling a garage that a bunch of insurgents sprinted into for cover. You can appreciate SGT P's tunnel vision once you see what he is looking through. You can also see the red laser appearance of SSG Terry's HEAT round in the GPSE. A16 and A18 were side by side on

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R and ROn my last few days of R and R from Iraq in October, there was all sorts of talk on the news about the Marines going in and retaking Fallujah.“Do you think you’ll have to go there?” I remember my mother asking. “No way. The Marines are on the other side of the country and there’s no way they’ll ask the Army for help.”Four Days LaterAfter traveling to get back to Iraq from the US, I

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Today on 26 May 2005, we held a battalion formation in the motor pool and SSG Terry and SGT Pritsolas received well-deserved Bronze Stars for their actions in Fallujah. You're reading about it here first so I don't need to elaborate. But I do want to say that I am extremely proud of them. This wouldn't have been possible without Chris Boggiano's help. I had these awards kicked back 4 times by

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Peter,I felt like I was bulletproof the entire time in Iraq. But that's neither here nor there. I was checking out your website and enjoyed your post about the media. Funny thing about the media and soldiers. Try to interview any one of my soldiers and they will shake their heads and slink away. None of us like talking to the media. I always wonder who's side the media is on. When I read

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Toby Keith gave a free concert to all military ID holders in Mannheim. I drove 3 hours from Vilseck by myself to see him. It was worth every kilometer. Toby Keith kicks ass. Meeting up with my brother platoon leaders at the concert was great too. Well, kid brother platoon leaders actually. They're just engineers. 

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L to R: Dave Meier, me, Tim Biele, and Burke Honzel. One platoon of engineers was swapped out with Boggiano's tank platoon. Throughout the year, these 3 platoon leaders came and went. Tim was with us when we left Kuwait for Iraq. He relinquished command to Dave, and man was Tim pissed about that. For one, he ended up working in Tikrit on Division staff. Secondly, Dave led his platoon into

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I never really planned on putting any current personal life stuff up here. I guess the wedding post will be posted only because of demand. But this story is too funny or idiotic not to mention. It was Saturday morning, around 10am on 21 May. My new mountain bike was assembled and I needed to pump some air into it with my brand new bike pump. In order to use it, I had to cut a thick zip tie

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I put my hands to my face. I was fine. I looked at Langford. He had gashed his hand somewhere in the fall but it wasn’t debilitating. Other than that he was ok. I was boiling mad. I couldn’t believe that we got hit with an artillery round. I was slightly confused by the impact though because I figured it should have killed us. I didn’t understand how we survived that.We kept Mewborn in

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