Change of Pace

So, I realize that a lot of my posts have been not very military or Iraq oriented. This has occured for several reasons. One, not wanting to say too much for opsec reasons, and also two, because I pretty much do the same stuff all the time, not all that much that happens here is of particular interest to me, hence I don't feel motivated to post about it. Which is good in a way, of course, being as that means that I'm not reporting horrific tragedies every time I turn around. Although, frankly, I wish I did have more I could say about over here that woudln't just turn into political ramblings or some such. Anywho, there was a slight event of note last night, although I did not witness it personally.

Okay, so, while I was sitting on the computer last night, our current platoon sergeant came in to use the computer as well and told me that all kinds of calls were coming in about people taking fire and fire-fights and such. Ironically, he had an amused look on his face. Unclear as to why such a situation would be considered amusing, I got out a mangled "what!?!" He went on to explain, that apparently Iraq stomped Syria in some "Southwest Asia Cup" soccer game or some such, so celebratory fire was running rampant, much like when the Iraqi team was doing well in the Olympics last year (I have heard stories of how the whole sky would be lit up with tracers and body-armor and helmets were worn around the clock due to the number of rounds falling out of the sky). Not 2 minutes later, he got a call on his cell phone from some of the guys down in the trailers saying they had just gotten video of "the biggest fire-fight we've ever seen!" He then took the wind out of their sales by explaining to the caller the situation as he had just explained it to me. I'm sure the video is still probably pretty cool though.

Okay, that's all I've got. TeddY2K out!