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Fraser From Iraq

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REPORTS FROM JAMIE FRASER, A MILITARY HELICOPTER PILOT ON HIS FIFTH TOUR IN THE BEAUTIFUL DESERT PARADISE WE CALL IRAQ.

• Added on: Aug 3rd, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Sumner L Nelson
• Listed in: Military Lifestyle
• Tags: pilot Navy iraq night helicopter special forces

Recent Posts

• Same As It Ever Was

  Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 01:10 in sixth tour

  All right, apparently most stuff never changes. The Uniform Police are still alive and well. Their ranks are usually made up of unemployed senior NCO’s that have never been here before. But hey, if they weren’t here, what would we have t...

• R2D2 Tales

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 21:12 in sixth tour

  Well, it’s pretty bad when you see your job being replace by robots. The pilot is rapidly becoming obsolete. It’s a new era. The Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) and Unmanned Piloted Systems (UPS). New acronyms are coming out daily. They have fixe...

• This Is Familiar

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 19:59 in sixth tour

  What’s up? Same shit, different deployment here. Nothing really to write about. The beer was good in Germany. Kinda pissed the Germans off by asking for American beer. But I think they’re all still pissed off about WW II. Spent the night th...

• WTF, Where’s Fraser?

  Posted on Friday May 22nd, 2009 at 22:38 in stateside

  Look at that, almost 3 months without a post. How are we going to get a movie contract with such intermittent attention? Some high school students from Las Vegas found Fraser flying out in the Nevada desert. I thought it was just a gambling party....

• Monkey-maze

  Posted on Friday March 6th, 2009 at 18:57 in fifth tour

  Well a crap load of new guys showed up. It’s funny. Some of them are first timers, most not. They are already counting backward and planning their escapes. Which is funny because you never leave here early. In fact, you never even leave on time....

• Band of Brothers

  Posted on Monday February 23rd, 2009 at 10:50 in fifth tour

  I just starting watching the “Band of Brothers” series for the third time, and I’ve come up with the following conclusion: I have never been in a war. WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam - those were true wars. The generation of WWII is truly...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Mary Lynn Archibald

Right on, Jamie!

We'll be keeping you in our hearts here at home. I remember WWI, Unfortunately, lots of folks today don't have a clue.

Stay safe.

ML

Posted: March 5th, 2009 | More Reviews From marylynn | Report This Comment

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