The Official Blog of Rob Smith

Yesterday we got off an Air Force C-17  in Baghdad and the first thing I noticed was the sun setting. Our travels around the Middle East continue. My small contingent and I will be here for a few more days, then the balance of the company will join us here, then after a little while [...]

On May 8, 2009 the first annual Great American Athletic Derby of Bristol, Brought to You By TicketNetwork took place. The following is a recap of the Derby, published by Jim Malone on May 28, 2009. This was a significant event in my life, which is why I’ve decided to post it on the blog.
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Wow, 14 comments in under 24 hours… are you a little jealous Roger? I think I already have 3 times as many readers as your blog ever did.
Jim, the Army provides us with a stored value card that we can charge directly from the checking account we get paid at. Unfortunately mine is in my [...]

We have been in Kuwait for 3 days. The travel here was very tiring, we had a total of 37 travel hours or something like that. We had a 3 hour layover in Germany, which is an interesting place to say the least. Since getting here it’s obviously been very difficult finding internet access, so [...]

Brett Favre has agreed to a two-year contract with the Vikings, the archrival of his longtime team, the Packers. I really thought he was done after the Vikings’ deadline passed and he said no. The Vikings had even played a preseason game before they signed him. He’ll be 40 in October, and his health really [...]

So we are in our final few days at Fort Dix. We’ll be occupied until we leave with packing, final administrative and training tasks, and trying to get as much information about what our job in Iraq will be as possible. It will be a busy few days. The exact day and time we leave [...]

I made it home around 9pm last night. Cosmo the dog was very excited to see me, as was the rest of the family. I got driven to Glastonbury in a van, I guess the original plan was to have Cosmo in the car waiting for me in Glastonbury but he didn’t end up making [...]

MISSION: We are in the middle of our mission readiness exercise. During the MRX we operate out of the COL as we would overseas, manning the operations center 24 hours a day, receiving missions, sending out patrols, guarding the base, meeting and coordinating with “Iraqi” citizens, etc. This morning we had a fake mortar attack [...]

Life is continuing at the FOB. Tomorrow we begin our 72 hour operation when we’ll have to run missions around the clock until Wednesday morning. I was just working on the written order for the 72 hour operation so now I am taking a break. I’ve been sick the past few days, and all of [...]

Well, we are here at the COL. The good news is that there is a computer here that I can write blog posts from, and that I’ll be home for my 4-day pass in a week. There is only one computer however so if anyone needs to use it for actual work, I won’t be [...]