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Not to draw any more attention to myself than I have by starting this thread, but I just wanted to re-introduce myself to the community.

I originally signed up here at NWO at the end of 2004, but then went to Iraq for a year with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, so I pretty much disappeared during that time.

Now, I'm back in the USA, and somehow, I remembered my login ID and password the first time.

Just wanted to say- I'm happy to be here (again) among you all and wanted to qualify all the sudden interjections of myself all over the forum for those of you who were wondering who the FNG (fucking new guy for those unfamiliar with military jargon) doing all the posting.

Cheers,

Kirk

Welcome back to the World, man. Glad you made it back in one piece. Theres a few former servicemen here, so you should feel at home.

Thanks. Nice to be back.

Good to have you back

Welcome back!!

Care to share any experiences/insights into the whole Iraq thing?

knightoboingo -

Wow! A big welcome back! Thanks so much for doing service for our country. How brave of you!

Dude! I KNEW I'd seen your nick around before. Welcome back!

Awesome, welcome back and THANK YOU!
I just met Lt. Col Sossaman here at a football coaching clinic, he just got back and retired 6 months ago, what an inspiring speaker! Appreciate all you have done for us!

Thanks, all.

I was stationed at FOB Warhorse, northeast of Baghdad about 30 km, and was on the brigade staff there. It was a much different experience from when I was there the first time in 2003 in one of the maneuver battalions- it was much more of a shooting war than it is now.

We're making some good progress there, especially with the rebuilding of schools, government and infrastructure, and the training of Iraqi security forces. While I was there, we shut down two forward operating bases in our sector and handed over a third to the Iraqi Army. We still have a ways to go, but we're handing over the security operations to the Iraqis more and more and taking a hands-off/advisory approach to many major operations.

Overall, it was a good experience, but I'm so happy to be back stateside and to be honest, would be thrilled if I never had to set foot in Iraq again.

This may sound like a dumb question, considering how many of our guys are over there, but did you happen to know a Major Jack Coleman? He just came back to the states a few weeks ago. Silly question, I know.

No, don't know him. But not a silly question, either. It's a small world and even smaller army- you never know.

I'm a major too, so I might've run into him somewhere and not even have known it.

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<br>Thanks, all.

I was stationed at FOB Warhorse, northeast of Baghdad about 30 km, and was on the brigade staff there. It was a much different experience from when I was there the first time in 2003 in one of the maneuver battalions- it was much more of a shooting war than it is now.

We're making some good progress there, especially with the rebuilding of schools, government and infrastructure, and the training of Iraqi security forces. While I was there, we shut down two forward operating bases in our sector and handed over a third to the Iraqi Army. We still have a ways to go, but we're handing over the security operations to the Iraqis more and more and taking a hands-off/advisory approach to many major operations.

Overall, it was a good experience, but I'm so happy to be back stateside and to be honest, would be thrilled if I never had to set foot in Iraq again.


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God Bless. Welcome Home.

Welcome back and thank you for your service [8D]. It's much appreciated. What has the reception been like from the average civilian?

-Motors (one of the former servicemen Hutter mentioned)

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Good to have you back.

(it might be a trick -- it could be Donald Rumsfeld in disguise) [:D]

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Glad you made it back safe. Thanks!!!!
You didn't know a Frank Allen in the 82nd did you
He was a 19 echo with me in the 80's and since has become airborne.
Thanks again for everything you did over there. [;)]