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GREETINGS TO ALL THE CRAZY MOFO¡¦S AT ROTHARMY.COM!
For those of you that don't know already.. I have been in IRAQ since well.. seems like forever.
I would like to start this off by thanking POJO, MEZRO and BROWNSOUND for holding this place together over the last 10 months. They have done a great job.
I would also like to give a 'Holla to member number 2.. the brilliant hitchBRAIN for making this website possible.
I wish I had some world wide stories of excitement and adventure... but sadly I don't. I do have stories of major camel toe sightings.. but I will save those for later.
I have been living in a booze and porn free country¡K so how exciting could it be here?!
I am currently stationed with the 228th Combat Support Hospital in Tikrit.
For those who care¡K although my name is ¡§Sarge¡¨ here.. I am actually a commissioned officer in the ARMY. When I opened this website in late 1998/early 99 I was enlisted .. thus ¡§Sarge¡¨ for 10 years of active duty. I received my commission in late 2001 after earning my B.S.N. from the University of Colorado (GO BUFFS!)
I spent the last 5 months working in the hospital in Camp Bucca, which is near the southern city of UMM QUSAR (UMM QUSAR.. UMM'Kay).
Camp Bucca is the largest detention facility (bigger than Abu Ghraib) with over 6 thousand inmates. Working there was not an experience I would want to relive. All of our patients were IRAQI prisoners. People that had done some seriously bad stuff, warranting them being imprisoned of course.
When I was working at the Jail, internet access was limited. I basically haven't looked at this website since March. Our internet was slow.... really slow. I did a bandwidth speed test and I was connected at 4 KBPS!
not 400.. or 40 or 14.4... fookin' 4!
Where I am at now in Tikrit is much better. We have internet access and a few amenities that we didn't have earlier. I should be able to check my email and actually do some maintenance on the website as needed.
I work in the Operating Room.. and we mainly handle trauma surgery. If someone gets hit by an IED or anythign thing else in this area, they chopper them into out hospital.
It kid of reminds me of the show MASH (minus HOTLIPS).
The helicopter lands and amid confusion and stress we treat patients.
Our job is to take care of all coalition forces.. but 70% or so of the people we see on a daily basis is members of the IRAQI National Guard and local police. We have had several American Soldiers die, but we have had many... many ING deaths.
I guess that is the way it should be.. considering it's their country.
I did get a chance to work with British, Romanian and Australian troops, who were all great. The Aussies were just hilarious.
My day is pretty much the same everyday, we work a bunch of hours but I still manage to spend some of my time listening to music and playing the guitar. The rest of the time I spend either working out tanning my applesacks. We all know how women enjoy a tanned beanbag.
I would have to say that the hardest thing about being over here is being away from my wife/kids/ family. I am really looking forward to reconnecting with my kids and having some personal ļ time with my wife.
For all of those who would like to correspond with me via snail mail or send a care package, here is my address:
228th Combat Support Hospital
OIF3 FOB Speicher
APO AE 09393
Thanks to all who have supported this website and Diamond Dave over the years. Hats off to those who are fortunate enough to see Dave on his tour this summer.
I leave here in December, but until then feel free to either PM me or send an email to webmaster@dlrarmy.com. I do not want to get involved with any of the drama and fights that have been going on here.. but if there is anything I can do for you let me know.
BREASTS,
peace in the middle east
Sarge
For those of you that don't know already.. I have been in IRAQ since well.. seems like forever.
I would like to start this off by thanking POJO, MEZRO and BROWNSOUND for holding this place together over the last 10 months. They have done a great job.
I would also like to give a 'Holla to member number 2.. the brilliant hitchBRAIN for making this website possible.
I wish I had some world wide stories of excitement and adventure... but sadly I don't. I do have stories of major camel toe sightings.. but I will save those for later.
I have been living in a booze and porn free country¡K so how exciting could it be here?!
I am currently stationed with the 228th Combat Support Hospital in Tikrit.
For those who care¡K although my name is ¡§Sarge¡¨ here.. I am actually a commissioned officer in the ARMY. When I opened this website in late 1998/early 99 I was enlisted .. thus ¡§Sarge¡¨ for 10 years of active duty. I received my commission in late 2001 after earning my B.S.N. from the University of Colorado (GO BUFFS!)
I spent the last 5 months working in the hospital in Camp Bucca, which is near the southern city of UMM QUSAR (UMM QUSAR.. UMM'Kay).
Camp Bucca is the largest detention facility (bigger than Abu Ghraib) with over 6 thousand inmates. Working there was not an experience I would want to relive. All of our patients were IRAQI prisoners. People that had done some seriously bad stuff, warranting them being imprisoned of course.
When I was working at the Jail, internet access was limited. I basically haven't looked at this website since March. Our internet was slow.... really slow. I did a bandwidth speed test and I was connected at 4 KBPS!
not 400.. or 40 or 14.4... fookin' 4!
Where I am at now in Tikrit is much better. We have internet access and a few amenities that we didn't have earlier. I should be able to check my email and actually do some maintenance on the website as needed.
I work in the Operating Room.. and we mainly handle trauma surgery. If someone gets hit by an IED or anythign thing else in this area, they chopper them into out hospital.
It kid of reminds me of the show MASH (minus HOTLIPS).
The helicopter lands and amid confusion and stress we treat patients.
Our job is to take care of all coalition forces.. but 70% or so of the people we see on a daily basis is members of the IRAQI National Guard and local police. We have had several American Soldiers die, but we have had many... many ING deaths.
I guess that is the way it should be.. considering it's their country.
I did get a chance to work with British, Romanian and Australian troops, who were all great. The Aussies were just hilarious.
My day is pretty much the same everyday, we work a bunch of hours but I still manage to spend some of my time listening to music and playing the guitar. The rest of the time I spend either working out tanning my applesacks. We all know how women enjoy a tanned beanbag.
I would have to say that the hardest thing about being over here is being away from my wife/kids/ family. I am really looking forward to reconnecting with my kids and having some personal ļ time with my wife.
For all of those who would like to correspond with me via snail mail or send a care package, here is my address:
228th Combat Support Hospital
OIF3 FOB Speicher
APO AE 09393
Thanks to all who have supported this website and Diamond Dave over the years. Hats off to those who are fortunate enough to see Dave on his tour this summer.
I leave here in December, but until then feel free to either PM me or send an email to webmaster@dlrarmy.com. I do not want to get involved with any of the drama and fights that have been going on here.. but if there is anything I can do for you let me know.
BREASTS,
peace in the middle east
Sarge
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