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Exeter Lads: Table of Contents

Posted by Cynewulf on Thursday, June 04, 2009 6:56:00 PM
On the hope of writing a few Tales of the Exeter Lads this summer, I thought I would put links to the past episodes here for the one or two people who want the back story, such as it is:
 
1.  Son of Gib
 
2.  Vigil for Aquittal
 
3.  Hey, Joe
 
4.  Airport Extravaganza
 
5.  Hezzie and Izzie
 
6.  Proud Islam's Power
 
7.  Baghdad Shuffle
 
8.  The Black Watch
 
9.  Craig William Staub
 
10.  Rotten in Denmark
 
11.  I Had a Dream
 
12:  Rip Van Joe
 
 
There you have it.  Enjoy!
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Leftward Ho!

Posted by Cynewulf on Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:06:06 PM
Mark Steyn on the election and the leftward movement of American government:
 
"If you went back to the end of the 19th century and suggested to, say, William McKinley that one day Americans would find themselves choosing between a candidate promising to guarantee your mortgage and a candidate promising to give "tax cuts" to millions of people who pay no taxes he would scoff at you for concocting some patently absurd H.G. Wells dystopian fantasy. Yet it happened."
 
For the entire column, click here:
 
 
 
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Sarah Palin Tall

Posted by Cynewulf on Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:06:46 PM
The battle for 2012 has already started.  We as conservatives cannot wait a few years to join the battle; to do so is to allow the enemy to choose the battle ground and entrench themselves.  This brings me to Sarah Palin.  Whether you think she's going to end up being the best choice or not in 2012 is besides the point.  Let's take a look at a few things being said about her:
 
This was apparently said on Oct. 25th:
"These people are going to try and shred her after the campaign to divert blame from themselves," a McCain insider said, referring to McCain's chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, and to Nicolle Wallace, a former Bush aide who has taken a lead role in Palin's campaign. Palin's partisans blame Wallace, in particular, for Palin's avoiding of the media for days and then giving a high-stakes interview to CBS News' Katie Couric, the sometimes painful content of which the campaign allowed to be parceled out over a week.
 
Here's a great column from whence the previous quote originates:
"Her strategy was to be trustworthy and a team player during the convention and thereafter, but she felt completely mismanaged and mishandled and ill advised," the person said. "Recently, she's gone from relying on McCain advisers who were assigned to her to relying on her own instincts."  Palin's loyalists say she's grown particularly disenchanted with the veterans of the Bush reelection campaign, including Schmidt and Wallace, and that despite her anti-intellectual rhetoric, her closest ally among her new traveling aides is a policy adviser, former National Security Council official Steve Biegun. She's also said to be close with McCain's chief foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, who prepared her for the Oct. 2 vice presidential debate." 
Hmm.  Doesn't like the veterans of the Bush campaign.  Interesting.  More interesting is that John "I Am Not Bush" McCain has Bush people working for him.
 
Some have said that this McCain insider (Scheunemann who warned of the coming mudslinging) has been fired, but even that is up in the air:
"As a result, two senior members of the McCain campaign said on Wednesday that Mr. Scheunemann had been fired from the campaign in its final days. But Rick Davis, the McCain campaign manager, and Mr. Salter, one of Mr. McCain’s closest advisers, said Wednesday that Mr. Scheunemann had in fact not been dismissed. Mr. Scheunemann, who picked up the phone in his office at McCain campaign headquarters on Wednesday afternoon, responded that “anybody who says I was fired is either lying or delusional or a whack job.”
 
The Ace of Spades notes in regard to her "going rogue":  "She cannot be a perfect parrot for McCain -- especially since McCain's thinking itself is often muddled. Every once in a while she's going to be pitched a question, and, not having memorized McCain's inconsistent answers fully, she's going to have to (gasp) offer her own opinion."
 
There's been alot of talk lately about the prank call, but what's interesting is that this call had been scheduled for days, and it was a member of her staff who had been fooled:
"As a senior adviser in the Palin campaign tells the story, the charge is absurd. The call had been on Ms. Palin’s schedule for three days and she should not have been faulted if the McCain campaign was too clueless to notice."
 
 
Speaking of calls, this is a classic:
"Just had a tip from a max McCain donor who called their office to find out if McCain would defend Palin. He gave his name and explained he had donated the max, establishing he deserved some amount of customer service."  Read the whole thing on the link; pretty funny stuff.
 
Oh, and while we're on calls - Sarah schedules herself to appear on the Glen Beck show (McCain staffers to busy apparently):
 
 
Now, most of this is hearsay at this point, but it does show me that there's an attempt to needlessly defame Palin.  What should we do when "moderate" Republicans try to backstab conservatives?  Red State has an idea.  Now is the time to hit back.  To hobble the opposition.  Otherwise, we let these snakes in the grass slither away to bite us again another day.  If we do that, we'll only have ourselves to blame.  Check out Operation Leper:
 
By the way, here's Palin's reaction to the whole thing:
"Palin arrives in Anchorage after a long trip home from Alaska. She holds a press conference. Refuses to comment on gossip spread by unnamed sources and “small, bitter” people saying “foolish things”…on relationship with McCain: No tension. “I love him…I honor him.” Responding to a question on whether she has any “hurt feelings,” Palin laughs cheerfully. “This is politics! Of course not. It’s rough and tumble and you’ve got to have a thick skin just like I’ve got.”
 

UPDATE:
More from Scheunemann:
"Randy Scheunemann, McCain's foreign policy adviser, called the idea of a split between the two campaigns 'laughable.'  'It's hard to believe these people worked for John McCain. They obviously have no loyalty to John McCain and no loyalty to his running mate,' said Scheunemann, who prepared Palin for the vice presidential debate. 'I've worked in Washington for over 20 years. I have seen literally dozens of politicians, and Sarah Palin is as smart, tough and focused as any politician I've ever seen. I'm proud of the time I was able to spend with her,' he said."
 
 
 
UPDATE 2:
Here's the Wallace woman on conservatives:
 

"SMITH: Nicolle, let's talk about the Republicans, because McCain, he said himself a week ago, now I'm the frontrunner. This lingering Huckabee thing. Huckabee got a lot of votes in Virginia. These conservatives they're -- they're still -- they're not happy. They're not happy about this guy.

NICOLLE WALLACE: And, you know what, Republicans are beginning to say that's okay.
 

SMITH: Oh, okay.

WALLACE: The more that we see kind of the crazies like Ann Coulter out attacking John McCain, the better Republicans feel about their chances in the general election."

 
 
Update 3:
 
Nicolle Wallace is either innocent of backstabbing Palin or is doing some serious cover-up.  Either way, I think she's figured out that that's in her best interest at the moment.  Point being, no defense from Wallace until conservative bloggers started flexing their muscles.  Could be coincidence.  Anyway, check it out, watch the vid, and see what you think:
 
 
Also, Palin responds here:
 
 
UPDATE 4:
 
Interested in signing a petition to defend Sarah Palin?  Join Operation Leper:
 
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Steyn: Obama In 2-D

Posted by Cynewulf on Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:58:32 PM

Here's a nice summary of the  man Obama by Mark Steyn:
 
 
"The problem is we’re not electing a symbol, a logo, a two-dimensional image. Long before he emerged on the national stage as Barack the Hope-Giver and Bringer of Change, there was a three-dimensional Barack Obama, a real man who lives in the real world. And that’s where the problem lies."
 
 
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Piling On Palin

Posted by Cynewulf on Monday, October 20, 2008 7:33:58 PM
What's the deal with the handful of right wing pundits piling on Palin?  Why does their rhetoric seem to mimic that of the left's?  I think Steyn has his finger on it:
 
"Conservative elites live in liberal jurisdictions - and, way out back in the "conservative cocoon", it gives them the whiff of absentee landlords, who enrich themselves on the strength of various holdings in ramshackle colonies but have no desire to spend much time there."
 
To read the whole post, click here:
 
 
If you're interested in seeing the set-up post for this, you can find that here:
 
 
Update:  Tony Blankley has a great column that dovetails with this nicely:
 
 
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Is Steyn Back?

Posted by Cynewulf on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:12:38 PM
Why,  yes, he is:
 
"God Almighty, it was like reverse Viagra: After 10 minutes of Babes For Barack, I never want to meet a female woman of the opposite sex for the rest of my life."
 
http://jewishworldreview.com/1008/steyn101308.php3
 
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Rip Van Joe

Posted by Cynewulf on Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:18:22 PM
At the Exeter lads' house, Joe and Kells sit in the kitchen; almost 2 years have passed since Joe was last awake.

Joe (leafing through newspapers):  Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley.
 
Birhtwold (walking in):  Hey, it lives!
 
Kells:  Yeah, he woke up an hour ago.  He's been going through our stack of newspapers, reading the headlines.
 
Joe:  Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley, Kerry, Kerry, Foley, Foley, Foley, Foley ... Ouch!  The Republicans got hammered in that election. 
 
Birhtwold:  Ya think?
 
Kells:  Here, skip a bit...
 
Joe:  Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin ... I don't know who he is, but they sure don't like him.
 
Kells:  Her.
 
Joe:  Her?  There's a woman in the race and it's not Hillary?  Amazing!  Let's see, where'd I leave off at?  Ah!  Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Obama Wins Debate, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Biden Wins Debate, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin,Obama Wins Debate, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, Palin, and that's me up to date.  So, who really won the debates?
 
Birhtwold:  Palin beat Biden; the others were a draw.
 
Joe:  Palin beat Biden?  Crazy.  What's the Dem prez candidate debating the Republican vp candidate for anyway?
 
Birhtwold:  Um, Biden is the Dem vp candidate.
 
Joe:  What?!
 
Kells:  Yeah, Obama is the Dem prez candidate.
 
Joe:  Owho? 
 
Birhtwold:  Heh, exactly.
 
Joe:  Well, how'd he get there?  What's his claim to fame?
 
Kells:  2004 Dem convention speech.
 
Birhtwold:  Yeah, apparently while Kerry was reporting for duty, Dems were tagging Obama as the next President.
 
Joe:  Seriously?
 
Kells:  Afraid so.
 
Joe:  So, what are you guys doing?  Holding your nose and voting for McCain?
 
Birhtwold:  He!! no!  I'm voting for Barr or Baldwin.  I'd prefer Baldwin, but Barr will do if Baldwin's not on the ticket. 
 
Joe:  But isn't a vote for Barr a vote for Obama?
 
Birhtwold:  Scurrilous lie!  A vote for Barr is a vote for Barr.  Obama could just as easily claim that a vote for Barr is a vote for McCain.
 
Kells:  No he couldn't.
 
Birhtwold:  Sounds crazy, right?  Same thing as saying a vote for Barr is a vote for Obama.
 
Kells:  No it's not.  Look:  If a lefty finds Obama to be too left for some reason, he'll vote for McCain, who's to the left of Barr, but to the right of Obama.  If for some strange reason Obama wasn't far enough left for someone, they would have to go third part, but it wouldn't be for Barr.  It'd be for Calero, Moore, LaRiva, Nader, or McKinney.  On the other hand, if a  conservative found McCain too far to the right (as much an impossibility as there can be), he'd vote for Obama.  If he finds McCain too far to the left, he'd vote for Barr or Baldwin.  So, as you can see, Obama won't lose votes to Barr.  He'd lose them to Nader et al.  You're safer sticking with a vote for Barr is a vote for Barr, which is factually true.
 
Birhtwold:  Yeah, well...
 
Joe:  So, Kells, who are you voting for?  McCain?
 
Kells:  No, I'm voting for Palin.
 
Birhtwold:  Now a vote for Palin IS a vote for McCain. 
 
Kells:  No, a vote for Palin is a vote for Palin.
 
Joe:  Who's on first?
 
Birhtwold:  As you might have noticed, she's not at the top of the ticket.  If they somehow win the election, she'll disappear to VP Land, never to be heard from until the next election.
 
Kells:  Eh, I don't think so.  Look, everyone keeps saying that VP's don't win elections.  And that has been true until now.  I mean, McCain still has to seal the deal, but without Palin, he's not even in the race.  Name another election where that's been the case.  Name another Prez candidate in history that has to have his VP travel with him to get a crowd.  It's like a cartoon:  McCain pulls Palin from out behind a curtain, a crowd appears and goes wild.  He sticks her back behind the curtain, crickets chirp.  He'll find it hard to shuttle her off to VP Land. 
 
Birhtwold:  I'm just going by historical precedent.
 
Kells:  Well, sure, "those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it," but those that are slaves to the past will miss any new precedent setting event.  There is a balance that must be struck.
 
Birhtwold:  Well, it seems to me that you won't know what a precedent setting event is until it's already happened, at which point it is in the past.
 
Kells:  That's a point of view, sure.
 
Birhtwold:  Aye, we'll just have to disagree on this.
 
Kells:  That's the cool thing.  I can respect the rinos that vote for McCain, as he's their man; I can respect the conservatives that hold their nose and vote for McCain out of hope for decent Supreme Court picks and out of hope that the Dems won't control both congress and the White House; I can respect the conservatives that vote for Palin in hopes of seeing her gain enough experience to put a run at the White House together in the future; I can respect the conservatives that will vote for Barr or Baldwin out of principle (though it seems to me that the others vote out of principle as well, just different principles); I can respect leftists who will vote for Obama, as he's their man; but what I cannot respect are those that call themselves conservatives/moderates/independents and will vote for Obama.  Indeed, anyone who labels themselves as such and votes for Obama is a poser.
 
Birhtwold:  Well, on that we can agree on.
 
Kells:  So, Joe, what about you?
 
Joe:  Oh, I'll probably vote for McCain.
 
Kells (laughs):  Say it ain't so, Joe!
 
Joe:  Well, he sounds like he most represents me out of the bunch, but I have some catching up to do before I decide.
 
Birhtwold:  Fair enough.
 
Joe:  Where's Skald, by the way?
 
Kells (laughs):  Watching Links.  We take shifts.
 
Birhtwold:  It's become nigh unbearable.
 
The three make their way to Links' room.
 
Joe:  Why's he all dressed in green with an O'Bama shirt on?
 
Kells:  New Obama campaign tactic to pick up more  white voters.
 
Joe:  Ah.
 
Birhtwold:  Watch this:  Palin!
 
Links:  Witch hunter!  Witch hunter!
 
Kells:  She'll be next in line for President!
 
Links (foams at the mouth, spittle flying):  Back in the kitchen where you belong!  BACK IN THE KITCHEN!
 
Joe:  Wow, talk about unhinged.
 
Kells:  It's been like this for a while now.  But now we can add you to the schedule.
 
Joe:  Great.  Looking forward to it.
 
Skald:  These are the times that try men's souls.
 
Birhtwold:  Amen!
 
The doorbell rings and Birhtwold, Joe, and Kells go to answer the door.  They open the door and Hassan is standing there, wearing a Che-style Obama shirt with the word "hope" at the bottom.
 
Joe:  Hey, Hassan, what's up?
 
Hassan:  Collecting funds for the Obama campaign.  Care to help us change the world and make a donation?
 
Kells:  I think we'll pass on that today.  Good seeing you though.  How's...
 
Links rushes in, slides under Joe, Kells, and Birhtwold, and thrusts an envelope into Hassan's waiting hands.
 
Hassan:  Thank you!  May Obama shine upon you!
 
Kells (trying to look at the envelope):  Is that a postmark from Iran?
 
Hassan:  Sorry, have to go.  Thirty-four more houses to go to.  Salaam.
 
The door closes and everyone makes their way back to the kitchen, voices fading as they go.
 
Joe:  I don't know if this can get any stranger.
 
Birhtwold:  Skald, get the lefty leprechaun back to his room.
 
Kells:  Can't we just skip to the 2012 election?
 
Birhtwold:  Heh, my turn to do the Rip Van Winkle.  Wake me up in four.
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The Tampa Bay Rays

Posted by Cynewulf on Friday, October 03, 2008 1:18:45 AM
Gotta like it when you find a Reagan reference in a sports column:
 
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A Cold Civil War?

Posted by Cynewulf on Friday, January 11, 2008 7:50:06 PM
A cold civil war.  Thus ponders Mark Steyn:  The "Cold Civil War" in the US.

"Well, it takes two to have a cold civil war. The right must be doing some of this stuff, too, surely? Up to a point. But for the most part they either go along, or secede from the system — they home-school, turn to talk radio and the Internet, read Christian publishers' books that shift millions of copies without ever showing up on a New York Times bestsellers list."

As I've said before, it's too bad Townhall won't carry Steyn's columns.  I would love to see the comments on them.  Anyway, no reason why we can't do that here.  Read Steyn's column and post a comment. 
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Mary Katey Hays

Posted by Cynewulf on Sunday, October 21, 2007 7:34:58 PM
Ok, those of you still reading out there, check out this nice column by the Tampa Tribune's Steve Otto:

Our Woman In Iraq Wins One For Us


"Did I mention that while Hays was at the academy she converted to Judaism? So here was this young Jewish woman, often working alone with the Iraqi army, meandering in a volatile province.  'Well, as you can imagine we didn't talk religion,' she said."

First of all, congrats to Mary on her Bronze Star.  And second, thank you Steve Otto, for writing about it; I wish more columns like this were out there. 

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Steyn Mart

Posted by Cynewulf on Friday, July 27, 2007 12:33:32 PM
Get your Steyn here!

A Lame Joke Becomes Reality - 6/11/07

"Talk about 'a fast track to citizenship'! Never mind probationary visas, Z-visas and Green Cards, in the eyes of the Democrat steering "comprehensive immigration reform" through Congress these guys are already 'undocumented Americans.'"


The Incessant Action Hero - 6/18/07

"At one level, Bloomberg and Schwarzenegger have a point. Why wait for national or international action when a mayor or governor can just get on with it? But the assumptions underpinning Time's paean to the new action heroes all operate in one direction — in increased government regulation and restraint on individual judgment."  Check out the second to last paragraph.


We've Replaced Rushdie In Hiding - 6/25/07

"And, for a guy dismissed by most of us as crazy, Khomeini made a lot of sense. The Rushdie fatwa established the ground rules: The side that means it gets away with it. Mobs marched through Britain calling for the murder of a British subject — and, as a matter of policy on the grounds of multicultural sensitivity, the British police shrugged and looked the other way."


Impudent Citizens Got Sen. Lotthorn's Goat - 7/2/07

"But what an awesome monument to the senator's reign it would be: Hadrian's Wall, the Great Wall of China, the Great Electrified Goat Fence of the Rio Grande."


The Jobs Britons Won't Do - 7/9/07

"When the president talks about needing immigrants to do 'the jobs Americans won't do,' most of us assume he means seasonal fruit pickers and the maid who turns down your hotel bed and leaves the little chocolate on it. But in the United Kingdom the jobs Britons won't do has somehow come to encompass the medical profession."  Great column on immigration and health care.


Look Who's Holding Hostages Again - 7/23/07

"How do you feel about the American hostages in Iran?  No, not the guys back in the Seventies, the ones being held right now.  What? You haven't heard about them?"  Read it and weep.
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Steyn And Comprehensive Immigration

Posted by Cynewulf on Friday, June 01, 2007 11:26:19 AM
 Female suicide bombers, twin fathers/uncles, and comprehension immigration reform:  what's the connection between them?  Read Mark Steyn's column, "So Much News, So Little Sense," to find out.  He even throws in a Scylla and Charybdis reference.

"So the question is: Why is enforcement of U.S. immigration somewhere between minimal and nonexistent? By some estimates, half of all illegals have arrived on George W. Bush's watch — i.e., they broke into a nation at war with borders supposedly on permanent 'orange' alert."
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Memorial Day

Posted by Cynewulf on Monday, May 28, 2007 1:23:55 PM
 I'm sitting here at the computer in my Disney shirt (silhouettes of Mickey, Donald, and Goofy standing reverently with the Stars and Stripes in the background), reflecting as I peruse some of the Memorial Day stories in my local paper, the Tampa Tribune. 

As I type (whatever I want), my son runs around with a couple of Transformers in his hand, battling (evil Decepticons against the good Autobots); my two-year-old daughter climbs up into my lap, smiles, thrusts a book (Sometimes I Like To Curl Up In A Ball) at me, and, after I read it, runs off for another; my wife takes a well deserved nap (she was up early in the AM with both kids while I slept in); and The Backyardigans blares on the TV behind me. 

And it came to me, all the small things we take for granted.  Free time.  Our kids' smiles.  The free speech of others (in the form of children's cardboard books and cartoons on TV).  So, I want to take this time to say Thank You to all of those men and women, past and present, who have made all of these small moments possible for my family and for all Americans.  Thank you for your service to our great country.  May it always deserve you.

Oh, and here's a few great Memorial Day links:

In Their Honor 

"The saddest funerals are the ones no one comes to."
 
Memorial Day: Sacrifice Lives On

This is a memorial to 51 men with ties to the Tampa Bay area who have given up their lives in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait.

U.S. Troops Rescue 41 From Al-Qaida Hideout

"U.S. forces raided an al-Qaida hideout northeast of Baghdad on Sunday and rescued 41 people who had been kidnapped by the insurgent group, some as long as four months ago, a U.S. military spokesman said."

The Loss of Proportion

This is a re-run of a Steyn column on Memorial Day that ran a few years ago.
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Damnesty, The Gift That Will Keep On Giving

Posted by Cynewulf on Monday, May 21, 2007 10:53:17 PM
 Fort Dixon.  Immigration.  Illegal immigration.  Amnesty.  It's-Not-Amnesty Amnesty.  Borders.  Security.  Border security.  Lack thereof.  Comprehensive.  Anybody else sick of hearing that word?  It's supposed to be a magic word.  Like Abra Cadabra.  Or, rather, Hocus Pocus.  We've arrived at the Rubicon.  Maybe.  I wonder which way the die will be cast.  And to keep that somber note going, here's a couple of Mark Steyn columns for your perusal:

Fortress America's Gate Is Open

"On one hand, America creates a vast federal security bureaucracy to prevent another 9/11. On the other hand, American politicians and bureaucrats create a parallel system of education and welfare and health care entitlements, maintaining and expanding a vast network of fraudulent identity that corrupts the integrity of almost all state databases."

Capitulation, From A______ To Z

"But, as John McCain declared, 'This is what the legislative process is all about' — and in the sense that it's a sloppily drafted bottomless pit of unintended consequences on a potentially cosmic scale whose sweeping 'reforms' will inevitably require even more sweeping reforms of the reforms in a year or two's time, he's quite right."


And for a slightly different take, here's Jack Kelly (I don't agree with him 100%, but he makes some good points):

Order On Our Borders

"I also blame President Bush. His apparent refusal to get serious about border enforcement has enraged many conservatives, driving them toward more extreme positions. An indication of the Bush administration's lack of seriousness is that just two miles of the border fence Congress authorized last year has been built."

Bonus:

And, by way of rebuttal, check out A Gift To The Democrats by Sandra Wise.

Double Bonus (aren't you guys lucky?):

Pasadena Phil has info to a Rasmussen report on immigration and border enforcement.  I think you'll find it very interesting:

So, We're Bigots Are We?

Also, BrianR takes a look at Bush's legacy, particularly in relation to illegal immigration:

The Bush Legacy
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Voices From The Front IX

Posted by Cynewulf on Monday, May 14, 2007 11:24:26 PM
In this episode of Voices From The Front, you'll meet Jonathan Shiroma, a Sacramento TV news reporter who is in the National Guard; Candice Oropeza, first lieutenant of the Coast Guard Cutter Monomoy; Krista Englert, a medic working with the Provincial Reconstruction Team (her focus is on human rights and women's development); and Donald Degidio Jr., commander of the 37th Engineer Battalion and Task Force Eagle.  Again, everyone should be thanking the Tampa Tribune for putting these out.

National Guard Capt. Jonathan Shiroma - 3/12/06

"It's really not fair to give a time line. We, as Americans, we like things to happen quickly. I know there are soldiers out there who agree with some of the polls that we should be gone within one year. I just know good work has begun here, and that the soldiers that are here, or who have been here, a lot of them are committed to making sure this thing is completed."

1st Lt. Candice Oropeza - 4/9/06

"We defend the oil platforms and make sure they are safe and secure. We teach maritime safety to the local fishermen, how to be safe on the water. We do some search and rescue. We've gotten a couple of phone calls - a fisherman sick or a boat sinking - and we go out and help them."

Staff Sgt. Krista Englert - 4/16/06

"I draw a lot of courage not so much from the up-armored vehicles that we have, but from the Iraqis who come out, who might be targets because they cooperate with the coalition forces. I don't think it could get any more brave than what they're doing."

Lt. Col. Donald Degidio Jr. - 4/23/06

"The local people love to see the United States come through. There's a tremendous energy in the school system, and that's who we're really winning the hearts and minds of. The children know we're their friend.  Not only do we improve a road, but we also put a school along that route. The greatest thing is helping out the next generation."

Bonus:
What are witchdoctors doing in Iraq?  Find out here.

And:

Captain Yanity (showcased under VFTF 8) dropped off a comment here at Exeter leaving her blog address.  Her blog covers her experience in Afghanistan starting back in August of 05 and continues to what she's doing now in the States.  Check it out:

http://afghanistan.thecolumbiarecord.com/
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