Joshua Silver, MHS '01. |
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- How are things, St. Marys?
Sorry I haven't written in a while but not much has happened. I have been flooded with emails. Things are going good.
We got word that we will be in country for exactly one year. That puts me home around May 15, 2004. The National Guard is turning into active army soldiers now.
If I'm here until that date, I will have been deployed for a straight 29 months (including my Washington D.C. mission immediately prior to this), and that isn't counting the 30 days out of combat and then outprocessing. Crazy.
Sometimes I think politicians don't care that we have regular jobs and families at home. I have seen 5 divorces put on the table since this news came out.
Anyway, I did do one good mission since I last wrote. We had to be a QRF team (Quick Reaction Force) for the protest/celebration they had on the 22nd. We slept in a police station for two days to make sure we were out there before anything would happen. Luckily enough, the crowd stayed pretty calm and we didn't have to go out and break anything up.
We did get shot at in the station, though. We were all just sitting around talking, and then someone opened up on the station. We ran to the roof to take our positions, but by the time we got up there he had already faded back in to the crowd.
That's about all the excitement I've had besides the normal workday. I will write again soon.
SPC Joshua Silver, United States Military Police Corp.
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A Topic entitled "From the Theatre" has been set up in the Iraq Forum in Ridertown Forums. Please see the Forums for additional response from Ridertown Military personnel such as 1Lt. David Simms, who sent an email Tuesday August 26, 2003.
