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Operation Uphold Democracy - 95

October 16, 2004 10:48:55 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
Sooner or later, geocities is going to figure out I'm only storing pics on their site so I can direct link to them here... and then, I'll have to find a new place to store images... maybe by then, JU will be open for the subscription service and I'll be able to upload them here...

Well, here is a picture of me from Haiti. I spent a little over 3 months there (Jan-Apr 95). It wasn't a very productive place to send a team of Korean linguists, but neither is Iraq/Afghanistan. The Army sends you where it needs you because you're still a Soldier first, and can perform other jobs. Overall, it was a great deployment, though. I learned a lot and the team I went with was pretty cool (well, most of the guys).

These pictures are all from Feb 95. We spent the entire month at a remote site about 10 km from the nearest US camp. Was kind of tense at times. The first night we were there, we heard gunfire about 5 minutes after we turned in. Spent about 2 hours pulling 100% security. We quickly figured out it wasn't at/for us, but we remained alert just in case. That became a regular thing while we were there. But, that is all the stuff of other blog articles that will someday be posted...

This first pic was just me with my rifle. Soldiers do this sort of pic thing on deployments. It's KEWL. No really, it is...


Next are two pics of our team. We were often bored between missions, so we'd do the normal, everyday deployment things. Watch videos (we had a small TV, VCR, and generator that the unit let us use), drink near-beer, write letters, talk, look at girly mags, burn shit (no really, we didn't have a toilet, we went in plastic bags and tossed them over the side of the building to a pit we built and did a daily burn), and take Hooah! pictures.

This first one was the day before we left. We thought we'd take a tough guy Hooah! pic. Most of us were wearing the free sunglasses that came out of the old leftover Desert Shield/Storm care packs that also came with candy that tasted like the laundry soap it was packed with.



This one was another we took shortly before we left. We had a number of antennae on our rooftop. One of us got it into our mind to do a version of the Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. Like I said, we had a lot of time on our hands and that can be pretty dangerous for a group of MI professionals!


Next time on chiprj's Hooah! pics -- Korea!
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Reply #1 October 16, 2004 10:52:06 PM
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These are terrific, chiprj, and I really like the info that you put with them. Thanks for sharing these.
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Reply #2 October 16, 2004 10:59:14 PM
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I find it amusing that none of you had an LBE, flak vest, or canteen on in any of these!
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Reply #3 October 16, 2004 11:03:23 PM
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Dude, you can be such a TED.

Too bad you weren't blogging before this past year's Language Olym... Competition. I would've actually met you then, instead of seeing you in passing and forgetting you. Ah, well.
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Reply #4 October 16, 2004 11:06:23 PM
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I find it amusing that none of you had an LBE, flak vest, or canteen on in any of these!


Not true! Take a closer look at the antenna pic. We studied the Iwo Jima pic and determined that at least one guy had his web gear on, so I put mine on for accuracy! That's the benefit of living 10 km away from the nearest camp... what the commander can't see, must be OK... Actually, we only wore the gear during convoys, on guard duty, or on patrols. Never wore the flack vests.
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Reply #5 October 16, 2004 11:07:09 PM
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Dude, you can be such a TED


I know!

Too bad you weren't blogging before this past year's Language Olym... Competition. I would've actually met you then, instead of seeing you in passing and forgetting you. Ah, well.


Yeah, I'm sure I saw you there, but...
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Reply #6 October 16, 2004 11:17:45 PM
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Good Pics Chip. I need to get my pw to photobucket reset. (Damn pidge, as soon as he wrote that blog forgot!)
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Reply #7 October 16, 2004 11:22:52 PM
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No, I'm SURE I saw you there, because I remember grey moving away from our antisocial herd in order to talk to you... or it's a false memory grey inadvertently implanted by relaying a misremembered story to me. I only save text files for some of those types of events, as they take up less space than either pix or vids... (I've only got so much memory to spare, y'know).

edit: Hey, Geez is here now, too. It's a party! (Ten-to-one says he doesn't blog, tho.)
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Reply #8 October 16, 2004 11:24:47 PM
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No, I'm SURE I saw you there, because I remember grey moving away from our antisocial herd in order to talk to you... or it's a false memory grey inadvertently implanted by relaying a misremembered story to me. I only save text files for some of those types of events, as they take up less space than either pix or vids... (I've only got so much memory to spare, y'know).


That was it. On Sunday when the team came in to register. I was on sign in duty for two hours and you all were standing outside the Weckerling Center when I got there.
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Reply #9 October 16, 2004 11:40:23 PM
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Yeah. I'd be (one of) the guy(s) who shied off from people I (we) don't know... Sorry.
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Reply #10 October 17, 2004 10:57:47 AM
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greywar, if your in the military then you know what a foolish statement that was. If you honestly think soldiers walk around all day with their LBEs on your crazy. Normally its during combat or field patrols. NOT setting up commo equipment ( unless its in a combat zone that is.)
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Reply #11 October 17, 2004 11:00:22 AM
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Oh and chiprj, I think the pics are great. It's normaly better to see personal pics to get a better view on average soldering than a professional one. It makes it more "real" to the casual observer.
Keep 'em coming!
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Reply #12 October 17, 2004 11:20:11 AM
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You missed your quote.. they work like this....


If you honestly think soldiers walk around all day with their LBEs on your crazy


On deployments? Thats the standard now... Do some people get away with less? Sure but it is not as frequent as it was back in the days when this pic was taken. Have a gander at any place in Iraq. The troops (Army) wear our shit nearly constantly out of garrison. Hell even in garrison they love finding new and exciting reasons to have us wear it. Are you in the AF or something?

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Reply #13 October 17, 2004 11:25:44 AM
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greywar: thanks but i'll do my quotes how I feel, you got the picture so it worked.

No, im in the army, the 101st. And yes I was deployed in Iraq for OIF. lol, its true that the Army loves to find new and exciting reasons to have us wear our gear, I guess it makes the officers feel important hehe.

You said "thats the standard now." well standards are different for each unit, as you know, and apparantley that wasnt the standard where he was deployed.
And while I was in Iraq, we NEVER wore our gear inside the wire. Only the new arrivals did.
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Reply #14 October 17, 2004 11:34:16 AM
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we NEVER wore our gear inside the wire


Hmmm I think they only keep it off inside buildings now.


where he was deployed.


more was the whenthan the where i think.

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Reply #15 October 17, 2004 11:38:12 AM
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"more was the WHEN than the where I think.

Yeah, my mistake. Hey, Im typing as fast as I can, gimme some slack will ya? lol

"Hmmm I think they only keep it off inside buildings now."

Shit, with all thats happening overthere now I probably would keep it on INSIDE the building too.
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Reply #16 October 18, 2004 10:23:21 PM
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Yeah, we rarely wore all of our gear. Mostly we wore it going on and off the main base camp on during the convoy to and from. Otherwise, unless we were up at night standing security up due to gunshots we heard or actively on guard duty, we didn't wear our gear. Even on guard duty, we usually just had the LBE hung over the chair inside the sandbagged area and our kevlar on the sandbags in front of us. Our team leader was a good tactical leader and recognized that we weren't in an overly dangerous area. We could see the road that approached our area for a good distance in both directions and we made friends with most of the villagers early on. We did make a point of having our rifles within arms reach at all times with a loaded magazine in the well, but that never seemed to frighten the Haitians. I think they knew we weren't allowed to shoot at them unless we were in immediate physical danger. But pepper spray was a whole different thing. They gave you a wide berth if you had even a keychain size bottle. They knew we were allowed to use that as we wanted.
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Reply #17 October 18, 2004 10:25:13 PM
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They knew we were allowed to use that as we wanted.


I have some soldiers who could use a dose.

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Reply #18 October 18, 2004 10:29:32 PM
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I have some soldiers who could use a dose.


HAHAHA! We spent the first month with a SOT-A team from some group or another... They had the big family sized cans of pepper spray with a pistol grip on them. P-Ro and Boyd (remember him from DLI?) were messing around with one and Boyd sprayed himself! Didn't realize that if he pulled the trigger the entire can would empty. He did the kickin' chicken for about 15 minutes and wasn't normal (really, was he ever normal?) for over an hour. He later likened it to swallowing a duck... whole.
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Reply #19 October 19, 2004 2:06:49 PM
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Hey, how come nobody smiles in these pictures???
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Reply #20 October 19, 2004 3:03:18 PM
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(theres just something about a man in uniform...grins)


Oooh, yeah......and I married one! Hahahahahahah!


Nice pics, Chip.  Can't wait to see the ones from Korea!


BTW, I do the same thing with MSN....hehehe.  I won't tell if you don't....

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Reply #21 October 19, 2004 7:52:39 PM
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Hey, how come nobody smiles in these pictures???


We're only so happy to be there...

cus they gotta look all mean and soldierly!


That's right!

Nice pics, Chip. Can't wait to see the ones from Korea!


Then check this out... )Hooah! Pics From Korea
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