“Let the blood of the infantry flow through your veins of the blood of the infantry will be on your hands” -GEN Wickham on the responsibilities of intelligence
So I am back. Not saying much the danger I was in was minimal at best. I used to tell who cared to listen that we received more indirect fire in nights on my old FOB in Diyala Province than we did in the two and half months of my time in a forward base in Iraq. But… danger…
First, a note. I have written this piece at least seven times. In my head or on paper it has transformed since I received notice of the deployment. But as I read more and more from writers like Daniel Fisher I am called to deeper crevices of my mind to think of something…