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 OVERHEARD IN THEATER "hold on to your shit!" shouted by the crew chief of an Osprey, pointing to packs located in the middle of the aircraft, just before take off. "i am back home! i am back in ramadi!" a female captain on her 4th tour in iraq, upon touch down in ramadi. "i feel safer here than i do at home!" uttered by a young marine at the ramadi chow hall after seeing a public service announcement regarding spousal abuse on armed forces network television. (he also remarked that his wife had asked him to extend in iraq.) "just because you speak arabic, doesn't mean that you can communicate!" remarked the 4th tour captain mentioned above. “how do you like my trojan horse, now?” -- from odysseus in afghanistan, a play, a novel, or, perhaps, an epic poem. “YOU HAVE TO TELL THEM SOMETHING.....” finding words to address deploying troops is difficult - but what do you say to their families? harry “mustang” parmer A HIDDEN IRAQI JET FIGHTER WAR ON TERROR NEWS (WOTN) UP-TO-DATE REPORTING ON AFGHANISTAN BY ARTHUR KENT AT SKYREPORTER.COM IRAQI WARRIORS REMEMBERED, HONORED by jeffrey ledesma, combined joint special operations task force - arabian peninsula multinational force newsletter  G.I. JANE BREAKS THE COMBAT BARRIER lizette alvarez for the ny times AUNT LOIS CPL ANON E. MOOSE HISTORY, POETRY, ETX. OWI - AN ISLAND OF DEATH BOB GEORGE, wwii veteran topographic draftsman of the 864th engineer aviation battalion bob’s book, Aviation Engineers Avenging Pearl Harbor, is available at lulu.com  KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES ‘james jones lives’ in poetry by pake gowan KOREAN WAR PROJECT LOSS KOREAN WAR VETERANS PROJECT  Return To Heartbreak Ridge: A Journey Into The Past HAL BARKER OUT AMONG ‘EM A.L. “O.A.T.S.” SYOR SUN TZU: STRATEGY IMPROVES WITH AGE VLAD THE CRISP BLUE STEEL BYRON GINTER NEW MUSIC FROM DEAN TRINITY “BEEN TOO LONG” VETERANS-FOR-CHANGE VOWS TO WAKE UP CONGRESS AND THE NATION BY EXPOSING THE ENDLESS PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR VETERANS BATTLE – JUST FOR BENEFITS PLUS “THE SCREAM”  MILSPEAK AT BAY STREET TRADING COMPANY END OF POST parmer8-17-09.htmlhttp://www.awcpictures.com/2007/10/hidden-iraqi-jet-fighter.htmlhttp://waronterrornews.typepad.com/home/2009/08/iran-28-more-experience-show-trial.htmlhttp://skyreporter.com/blog/page/1/20090802_01/http://skyreporter.com/blog/page/1/20090802_01/http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27568&Itemid=224http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/us/16women.html?_r=2auntlois8-17-09.htmlowi1-8-17-09.htmlhttp://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?search_forum=-1&search_cat=2&show_results=topics&return_chars=200&search_keywords=&keys=&header_search=true&sitesearch=lulu.com&q=&fSearch=246828&fSearchFamily=0&fSubmitSearch.x=0&fSubmitSearch.y=0gowan8-17-09.htmlkwvp8-17-09.htmlhttp://www.koreanwar.org/index.htmlhttp://www.koreanwar.org/html/chapter_one.htmlsyor8-17-09.htmlvlad8-17-09.htmlginter81709.htmldean8-17-09.htmlVFC8-17-09.htmlhttp://www.baystreettrading.com/store-events.htmlhttp://www.baystreettrading.com/store-events.htmlhttp://www.baystreettrading.com/store-events.htmlhttp://www.baystreettrading.com/store-events.htmlhttp://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27568&Itemid=224http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?search_forum=-1&search_cat=2&show_results=topics&return_chars=200&search_keywords=&keys=&header_search=true&sitesearch=lulu.com&q=&fSearch=246828&fSearchFamily=0&fSubmitSearch.x=0&fSubmitSearch.y=0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxJRSmIBjd4&feature=relatedMilSpeak_Anthology.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13shapeimage_2_link_14shapeimage_2_link_15shapeimage_2_link_16shapeimage_2_link_17shapeimage_2_link_18shapeimage_2_link_19shapeimage_2_link_20shapeimage_2_link_21shapeimage_2_link_22shapeimage_2_link_23
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