After Operations Maintenance

By request of Shellbird wanting some pics of the Mungadai I went around and snapped a few which conveniently kept me looking busy. As you can see it's just a flurry of activity while we are conducting our inventory and some after ops maintenance getting all of our gear prepared for the next guys. So with the vehicles washed, weapons cleaned and all items accounted for and serviceable we are now preparing for a BBQ as this will be our last night in these barracks! One step closer to our families and friends!

Street Scenes, 19 AUG

Mmmmmmm Cookie

Buhdda likes his snacks, there's no telling what he'll break out at any given time. As we're getting ready to wrap it up here and doing some after ops maintenance on our equipment it looks like he forgot about this tasty morsel tucked away under his pads in his helmet. No wonder why we always caught a whiff of Nestle tollhouse peanut butter cookies as he walked by. No thanks, I don't want a bite.

Street Scenes, 16 AUG

Street Scenes, 10 AUG

Street Scenes, 05 AUG

To all our loved ones, especially the Mungababes: sorry we haven't been posting much (uh, okay, at all) lately. Everyone (the Coalition, the Transition Teams, the Federal Police, the Army, and the good citizens of Mosul) has been busy adjusting to the new, post-30 June "Combat Forces out of the Cities" clause of the US/Iraqi Security Agreement.
Although the Mungadai are extraordinarily adept at that whole "combat" thing, we count as advisors, and are therefore allowed, in the Security Agreement, to accompany our counterparts the Federal Police (yes, it used to be the National Police, but everyone here thought that "Federal Police" had a little more pizzazz to it). As we all know, though, the details of actually executing a treaty can be a little more messy than just writing it down and signing it. So, the Mungadai have been really constrained, in the last few weeks, in actually accompanying our counterparts out and about on operations. However, we've worked through a lot of the legal-ese and are getting things squared away. So, here are some scenes from today's operations: