What did you do for 4th of July?
 

What did you do for 4th of July? Did your company celebrate?
Mine did.




Today my company escorted EOD to a cache site, we secured 300 plus, 20 gal drums of nitric acid (used by the insurgents to make explosive ), found and command detonated an IED, received a few rounds of small arms fire (sounds like fire crackers you may have heard at your local block party, but slightly different) and that was before 11:00 in the afternoon.

For the rest of the day we will patrol our local area, meet with various local nationals, drink some chi, get a few tips on caches and IED’s . Conduct recon and patrols to those locations, maybe drop off some toys to a few select kids we see, water to a family whose father and sons have been killed, detained, or just disappeared.. Most likely all will go as planned and my three platoons will be safe and sound for the next 24 hours, they will swap duties in the morning, 1 to refit, 1 to EOD escort, 1 to patrol our Area of operations… Two soldiers that left Fort Hood with our company 7 months ago could not participate in today’s events.. They are with us, in our hearts, but they no longer patrol in 65 pounds of gear, in 113 deg heat.

That is how my company spent the Fourth of July.

When you are eating your burgers, steaks and hot dogs, relaxing while you visit with friends, work on the yard project, wrench on that bike, or enjoy the long weekend ride. Know that, the news program you watched, newspaper you read is mostly wrong.. We are not broken, we are not beat. My soldiers fight as hard today as they did yesterday, and the days before that. Jealous maybe that many are home and they are not, but strong in our duty every day, to include the 4th of July.

Today my company celebrated.. . it looks like we will all make it to the 5th

Thanks, Erik! And thanks to all your guys for how hard they work, the conditions they must endure and the danger they face so we can light up the Webers and pop a can or two.

Happy birthday USA from the Canadian side !!

I get to clean the garage for company comming over later this evening - its supposed to be raining most of the day as well so likely no ride to watch fireworks either...

God bless the troops and the USA

F**king yard work ! :evil: No riding for me today . Happy 4th to everyone !

Went for a 28 mile road ride (Bicycle) and then came home and made some potato salad to take to a party!

Happy 4th!

Thanks for all you guys do TX! :cool: Happy Fourth to you and your company.

Rode to work which was AWESOME because the roads were empty of almost all cars, worked for 8 hrs. Got a good soaking on the way home as it was POURING out until I got about a mile from home when it all of a sudden stopped raining......go figure. Oh happy 4th. :)

Erik,

Thanks brother! I'm doing my best to train guys here so we can continue to give you air support from the carriers. Gotta have steam to shoot those aircraft off the deck!

It's great that your guys are in good spirits. That is a direct reflection of you and your leadership skills. Keeping the troops motivated is never easy, especially away from home. Keep up the good work.

Stay safe!

Thank you and your soldiers and families for choosing to bear the load for the rest of us. I admire what you men & women do. I hope you all come back home safely... and soon.

rode to parkway
 

i rode up to the parkway with my buddy and his 750 shadow. fireworks looked great form the blue ridge parkway. by the way i saw 2 hawks.

I spent the day at the lake saluting the flag.