Hard Soldier: Bad Voodoo's War

Back when we first started this deployment SFC Nunn explained to all of us that he was making a Documentary with this film maker Deborah Scranton, she made one that I had seen called "The War Tapes". The film was good and it showed a lot of stuff that you won't see on the news so needless to say I was pretty cool with the whole thing. Well after a year of sucking on the road and sweating to the sound of IED's and the sound of my gunners voice saying "Sh!t it's freakin hot!" The movie was finally released or an episode of it since we are still in country. I must say it was actually really good, I was the Convoy Commander for two of the three IED blasts that you see in the movie and she did a good job of making everything look professional. I didn't personally carry a camera although my gunner SPC Shaw did, he was one of the main subjects that she followed. I personally liked the segment 'I do it for the guys I'm with" That was great, now I know it was PBS and they probably can't show most of the vulgar comedy that we crack on each other but nevertheless it was funny.

My wife and son watched it at home and I was kind of skittish about them seeing some of the stuff that we have gone through over here because, the last thing I want is for them to start worrying about me. Lina (my wife) said she liked it but she said my son no longer wants to join the Army, which is a good thing I think. Sooner or later the cycle had to break and I'd rather pay for his college out of my own pocket, it's a good thing I have been studying to pass the CFA I learned some good ways to pay for it.

So we'll be home soon and all Bad Voodoo's War will be to me is a DVD I pull off of the shelf when I want to remember the guys that packed up and went to war with me. Emotions run wild in my mind when I think of all the ups and downs of the year. A lot of SFC Nunn's efforts are in that movie and he is pretty accurate about how we feel about the Iraqi Police, Civilian Contractors, and each other. He took a lot of joking from everyone about his cameras, and believe me there are a lot of jealous people over here now that this thing is released. Success begats foes though because no matter what new toy people get someone else always wants it, I guess it's human nature. At the end of this deployment I still have to go home and finish out my tour as a recruiter in Bakersfield CA. I still wonder everyday how I'm going to go back home and tell people to do this job. Straight forward and to the point has always been my approach to recruiting and I have usually been successfull so I'll probably go back to that.

Maybe when I get home I can work on this new invention I have been telling everyone here about, tell me what you think. A room, but I'll make walls (so you can have privacy), then I'll put a kitchen in it, so you don't have to walk half a mile to get food, then I'll put a toilet in it so you don't have to walk a half mile to do number two (hahaha number two!), then I'll put sinks, and a shower so you don't have to walk a half mile to take a shower or brush your teeth. I don't know what to call it yet.......Oh wait! i'll call it my house!