These are some pictures taken at Camp Taji and Camp LIberty, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004-2005. I am currently stationed with A Company, 28 Signal Battalion, out of Pennsylvania, a National Guard Unit that was called up in 2003.
Thsi is half of the wall on one of Uday's palaces.
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Uday's
I'm not entirely sure, but I believe that's Uday's Palace form across the lake.
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Santa and the crew
Santa even found time to visit the NC40 crew a week before Thanksgiving. That's me on the far left there.
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Saddam's Palace
This is Saddam's largest palace. That lake is entirely man-made. Apparently, when the Americans first got here, they discovered porpoises in that lake there.
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Old guns
There are old guns all over this place. The Iraqi Guard just up and abandoned everything. Taji, for one. was an absolute dump. Now it's just kind of a dump...
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Operation Cheesy Christmas
Between this 3' tree and the stockings my mother and her co-workers made possible, even we managed to have a little bit of a Christmas...
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Me
This is me in front of that palace back there.
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Scenic view
This is what we see from our signal shelters. Beyond that, you can see concrete barriers! What a view!
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Entertainment
This is what we do when everything is going well; prove that lemon acid can be used to generate power (ye olde potao clock trick).