Last month I met with a writer for a local Concord Ca. paper called the Concordian. The Concordian has been around a really long time. I should have asked the date they started. I couldn’t find it on the website.The paper was mailed to everyone in the city. It was a free monthly newspaper that [...]
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I pulled together a bunch of news clips from my time in Iraq and put them all together. It’s only a few minutes long. …I told you I got bored today. Maybe I can add “video editor” to my resume now?
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After our initial drive into Iraq and setting up camp at Tallil. The heat was already beginning to rise. The locals were saying that August was “white mans death” since that seemed to be when the heat was at its peak. It was only June and it was already well above 100 degrees before noon. [...]
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After serving America he’s serving youth Oscar Munguia knows the difference a mentor can make in a young person’s life. The 2001 East Union High graduate served America in Iraq and is now serving its future — the youth accessing Give Every Child a Chance’s free tutoring programs — as program director. “Everybody needs a [...]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:32 AM Hello from Kuwait! Yes I finally made it here. From Washington we were issued out weapons and boarded the commercial airline wearing our desert camouflage uniforms. Our plane made a 2 hour layover in Ireland once we taxied to the gate from my window I saw airport security [...]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 7:31 AM Hey there. I didn’t forget about you. I have been pretty busy lately. No.. I have not left the states yet, I am still in rainy Washington. The last month my unit has been getting trained in more mission specific duties that we will be doing over in [...]
Five days before I was supposed to get on a plane and return home from the Sunni Triangle, an order came down from General Sanchez himself that the 341st MP Co. from San Jose Ca. was going to be extended yet again after their 365 days had been fulfilled. Most of our equipment had been [...]
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Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 9:28 PM Hello everyone. Not much to say about Iraq. Its still hot here even thought the heat has dropped to 102 degrees. The missions have not changed very much. The main difference is that we are doing more convoy security missions. I sleep in a different base every other [...]
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http://cbs5.com/news/local/2004/07/07/Are_Troops_Streched_Too_Thin_in_Iraq%3F.html Some Democrats are raising concerns about the troops in service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wednesday, Rep. Ike Skelton, D-MO, said he fears service members are being pushed to the breaking point. It’s a concern that was echoed by one Bay Area soldier who recently returned from Iraq. Army Reserve Sgt. Koka Sexton of the [...]
