I'm almost outta here.  

Thus far, we've encountered 131 IEDs.  More than doubled the amount by the company we replaced.  A number of our soldiers have been injured -- of those, 7 were medevac'd.  Kudos to our patrol leaders, medics and CLS's.  I can't count how many times our M1114s, Buffalos, RG-31s, and Huskys were deadlined due to IED damage.   Our mechanics and recovery team did an outstanding job fixing and evacuating vehicles for repair.

As for construction, we've emplaced well over a 1,000 concrete barriers completing around twenty Iraqi Army checkpoints, filled-in a number of IED craters, and cleared vegetation, palm groves, bombed-out buildings, and debris along 6 major military routes.  Doing so sometimes under IED and direct-fire attack.  We've completed well over 80 construction projects at four camps and one civil military compound, which involved interior road repair, clearing vegetation, moving T-barriers, fixing a canal, improving our firing range, moving mounds of gravel, debris removal, and filling a long wall of HESCOs.

Me.


Bad guys we captured and their weapons.




Me at the range shooting captured weapons


Video of me shooting a Russian PKM:        
www.supportourwarriors.com/gallery/albums/ARMY-PHOTOS/range_PKM.wmv

Video of me at the range shooting the M60:
www.supportourwarriors.com/gallery/albums/ARMY-PHOTOS/range_M60.wmv

It's been a crazy year.

Happy Holidays.  

Happy Holidays. Stay safe.

Dude, you rock!
I appreciate your service and sacrifice keeping my fat ass safe here in the world.

God Bless and come home safe!

I'm home now.... it's both weird and great to be back!  Thanks for everyone's support.
"Shukran"

For the troops still in Iraq and Afghanistan such as Garand_Shooter and N8loi, stay safe out there.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

- GulDuCal

Quoted: I'm home now.... it's both weird and great to be back!  Thanks for everyone's support. "Shukran" For the troops still in Iraq and Afghanistan such as Garand_Shooter and N8loi, stay safe out there. MERRY CHRISTMAS!! - GulDuCal

Thank you for doing what you did while over here.  Helping build projects and whatnot like that is very brave and noble.

Only 10.5more months to go.

Thanks for keeping us safe!

That is pretty damn cool that you can shoot the weapons you capture. Stay safe!

I made a video.   I hope it works...


media.putfile.com/OIF-III-Trailblazer-467th-Engineers


GulDuCal

That was really cool. Thank you for sharing.

GulDuCal..
Don't know where you live but if your in the NYC or Long Island area would like to take you out to dinner and shake your hand...