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Hi there,
I am not commenting on your post, I read your post on eyeraki's blog.
My son has been in Iraq since early December 2007. He is scheduled to come back In Early to mid February. He is an advanced combat medic with the 4th ID 3rd Brigade Combat Team.
I just wanted to send you my prayers and encouragement for your son's deployment. There are lots of good blogs by Iraqis, and service members over time I am sure that you will find them. After a short while you will find that you must 'consider the source". This evening, I will try to send you some links that made me feel more connected and better informed about my son's deployment. During some very rough times (alot of combat)It was the only kind of contact that I had with him. But things are much better now. They have acchieved wonderful progress! Though it is still dangerous, things have calmed down remarkably.
I will be contining the prayer that I pray daily;
That God may see my son and the other service members through this, to embolden the ISF (Iraqi security forces) to become proficient and that they will be able to quell the insurgents where they stand, that God would embolden the civillians to turn in anyone who would harm and that God would open the eyes of those who would harm so they can see the truth of what they are doing and choose not to continue.
I will be praying for you and your son.
Kind regards
Hope Wilson
Hello,
Here are a couple of websites that I have used frequently during my son’s deployment.
First, Dvids. The US military Digital video imagery distribution service. I cannot say enough good about this site. The site gives news, photos and video of the work that our armed forces do world wide. Of course you will see more photos of Iraq and Afghanistan than elsewhere. This thing that I liked about this site, is I get to see, with my own two eyes all of the good things that are done by our troops that are never reported by the media. This site is wonderful. Not only that, but after watching for a year, on the 366th day of my son’s deployment, I found a picture of him standing in formation with his unit. It was taken on Thanksgiving day. It was pretty wonderful.
http://www.dvidshub.net/index.php?script=images/images_main.php
News Now Iraq. News now is a news service from the UK which refreshes every five minutes with news stories and /or blogs from around the world. The on caution I give with this site is “consider the source” Also, You can turn off the blogs and just read news stories. From this one, I learned a great deal about “spin”. It was very helpful when there was a lot of combat activity.
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Hot+Topics/Iraq
This site is not only about Iraq. This is about the war on terrorism world wide. Very experienced contributors on this site. It also gives brief overviews of activity by country.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/
On this page, if you click on the map it will increase it to a fill size PDF document. This map shows where most brigades are located. It is general so it does not give out specific locations. It does tend to be a little outdated at time. Usually refreshed every month and half or so. This map is how I found where my son was. He is not allowed (of course) to give an exact location, so I found his unit on this map, and did a few web searches. Before you know it, I had photos of his location as well as information on the general “air” of the location.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/01/iraqi_security_force_23.php Brigade order of battle.
What your son will be doing depends on is MOS. He may spend his entire time on a FOB (Forward operating base) One fob that I know of has a burger king, taco bell and a great dfac (dining facility). Just look back for pictures of Christmas on Dvids!
My Son’s unit is doing a lot of community contact right now. They are also training their replacements and getting ready to pack up to come home. No small task for any brigade, let a lone a combined armored brigade.
Hopefully your son will be in a place where he will be able to communicate with you often. If not, I always reminded myself that he is busy. They work all the time.
I hope that I have not been too forward or presumptuous with my unsolicited advice and links. I have found that I know much more about what is happening than the average citizen as there is little but the bad news written about Iraq and Afghanistan. We are doing so much good and it is a shame that most Americans do not know about this. Your FRG will be very helpful for you. Make contact with them if you are not already. They are gems. It is one of the little stated facts that when a family member is deployed, in a way, so are you. I will be praying for you and your son.
Peace of the Lord be with you and yours.
Hope
Hope,
Thank you so much for all this information. No, you have not been too forward. I was very excited to see your comments!
Rena
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