Kurdish wedding

One of our stoppovers to Erbil we were hanging out with some Kurdish kids while their parents where in a wedding. We were then invited into the wedding and you can see my reaction when they asked us to dance with them. "You want us to what?!" I see no need to incriminate myself with pictures of said dance.

Mission to Turkey and Christmas

We flew to Turkey to drop off the General to a meeting he had there and I got to hang out with one of the Turkish Blackhawk pilots. The forth is a little Sadoku in Baghdad waiting on our passengers and then our Christmas bash.

Blackhawk pics

More helicopter pictures. The second one is of the nasty fog that rolled in 10 minutes after we landed from a mission. We were lucky to land before it hit. The last two are in Dahuk in the north. It's one of my favorite places to go.

Kurdish country and first mission over Baghdad

The first three are of a mission we commonly do to Kurdish country up north. They love us up there because Saddam was horrible to them. On the flight up there we passed over a Kurdish village that was in ruins, the people decimated by Saddam using chemical weapons. Don't bother asking me if he had any weapons of mass destruction, just ask the Kurds. The last two are of our first mission over Baghdad.

Fall and winter in Iraq

These are from my first couple of months in Iraq, and it's been pretty interesing. First: the Baji oil refinery north of Kirkuk. Highly desputed oil reserves between the Iraqis and the Kurds. Second: I tried to find a box big enough for me to fit in so that DHL could send me home. Third: Talifar air base. Forth and fifth: Our push north from Kuwait.