Journals

Its summertime now but we’re not at the beach. No Saturday night barbeques for the 74 marines of Alpha Company, 3rd Recon Battalion, based out of Okinawa. Nope. This is Camp Fallujah, Iraq. …

The Road.
We are doing aerial VCP’s or vehicle checkpoints. With two helos, escorted by two Apache gunships, we fly up over the countryside outside Fallujah.

It’s been weeks and we were busy. Helo raids and finding weapons caches were successful during August but as we enter the last month of duty on the ground, we are backing the Sunni Triangle near Zydon, patrolling, knock and talking and stopping the mortaring of Camp Fallujah.