Less than a month left and many of our replacements have arrived. It's actually beginning to feel like we may get to go home. This is always a surreal time for me; I'm still busy doing work but don't want to put too much effort into things because there are new guys here getting ready to take over and I'll be drinking beer and enjoying the States again in about 3 weeks.
However reality likes to remind me that we still have issues to face.
Issues like our ongoing Kurd-Arab tensions which flared up a couple days ago in Qara Tapa...over a parking infraction. No this is not a repeat of May when I wrote about this. Some IA soldiers were wounded in the flair up but overall we are lucky everyone here is such a bad shot otherwise things could have gotten really bad.
The Kurd-Arab tension issue is so much of a problem that GEN Odierno wants the U.N. to send peacekeepers to the region when we leave. Good luck with that.
In other news, 1-14 Cav made the news again, and not in a good way. Nobody stepped on any cultural landmines but some officers said a little more than they should have. Especially CPT Adams and 2LT Dudzinski. Mark didn't say anything we weren't already thinking, although I would argue we had some success in detaining those most likely responsible for the suicide car bombing on June 11th. Jalula is a pain in the ass with the ethnic tensions and a large, hostile, Kurwi tribal population and it's possible we went at that problem incorrectly, but we did what we could. LT Dudzinski, however, should know better than to call out our security partners like that.
I really look forward to forgetting all this.
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