MIXED EMOTIONS: LEAVING THE 48TH BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM I am coming home. As you read this, I should be on a C-5A headed for Dover, Del. and then to Home Sweet Home. I leave with mixed emotions. Taking the world’s longest shower and sleeping in a real bed with a real mattress will be a pleasure, but leaving behind the men and women of Georgia’s 48th Brigade Combat Team wasn’t … [Read more...] about Oct. 14, 2005: Iraq Column #7
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Oct. 13, 2005: Iraq Column #6
COLUMNIST SEES THE WAR ‘UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL’ With Georgia’s 648th engineering battalion in the Triangle of Death. I saw the war in Iraq up close and personal today. In fact, it was up closer than I wanted. A couple of bad guys exploded an IED (an improvised explosive device) as we were crossing a bridge near Camp Striker. Had our vehicle been going slower, or had the bad … [Read more...] about Oct. 13, 2005: Iraq Column #6