Hello from Iraq!

[FireFighter 227]

Just wanted to drop in and say hi to my favorite community! So, I quit my job with the fire dept and I am now here in Al Asad Iraq until next june.

 

[NullSmurf]

Training Iraqi firefighters, I presume. Re-welcome to CP

 

[Unclebillybonz]

stay safe

 

[StatHaldol]

Good luck and keep your head down...

 

[13Fox]

Stay low and watch your six!

 

[4cbln3]

From one Firefighter brother to another stay safe for your family, and a big Thank You! for protecting the country.

Dave (Honolulu Fire Department, Battalion 2/1 )

 

[PanheadJay]

Happen to be coming to Kirkuk, Iraq, drop me a line, I got the smokes!
We'll enjoy them when you get here!

 

[FireFighter 227]

Happen to be coming to Kirkuk, Iraq, drop me a line, I got the smokes!
We'll enjoy them when you get here!

Awesome. However, ill most likely be in Al Asad for the entire 12 months.

To the above, I am not training iraqi firefighters. I am working for WSI, who is the primary contractor in iraq for fire and ems response on the bases. We have 20 something sites and around 800 firefighters.

 

[chris28054]

Happen to be coming to Kirkuk, Iraq, drop me a line, I got the smokes!
We'll enjoy them when you get here!

Awesome. However, ill most likely be in Al Asad for the entire 12 months.

To the above, I am not training iraqi firefighters. I am working for WSI, who is the primary contractor in iraq for fire and ems response on the bases. We have 20 something sites and around 800 firefighters.

That is not a bad gig. Where you a fire fighter in the service prior to this?

 

[FireFighter 227]

Happen to be coming to Kirkuk, Iraq, drop me a line, I got the smokes!
We'll enjoy them when you get here!

Awesome. However, ill most likely be in Al Asad for the entire 12 months.

To the above, I am not training iraqi firefighters. I am working for WSI, who is the primary contractor in iraq for fire and ems response on the bases. We have 20 something sites and around 800 firefighters.

That is not a bad gig. Where you a fire fighter in the service prior to this?

Yea, its not a bad gig, especially when you consider what they pay.

I was a FF in good ol' roswell nm.

 

[cabaiguan juan]

Good luck while you are there. As for the rest of you deployed folks, put your address in your profile!

 

[FireFighter 227]

Good luck while you are there. As for the rest of you deployed folks, put your address in your profile!

Ill update my address this week when I reach my new site.

 

[FireFighter 227]

On a side not, I did buy me a cuban Cohiba from the hodgie shop today...great smoke.

 

[Stoggie13]

Al Asad is a huge base, don't get lost.

 

[FireFighter 227]

Al Asad is a huge base, don't get lost.

That's what I hear. I'll be there today. I take it you were there in the Marines?

 

[Stoggie13]

I take it you were there in the Marines?

This was back in '05, we landed there from Kuwait and stayed three days before we convoyed to Ramadi.

 

[stlboarder]

I went through there back in '06 when I was entering and leaving country. It's a pretty big base.

 

[jschoener]

I never set foot in Al Asad, was in Camp Victory and also Balad, but I do wish you luck. Let us know if Al Asad has a cigar club. I was president of the one at Camp Victory and they are still active. I can have the current officers contact you about how to get started.

 

[FireFighter 227]

Sandstorm blowing in

It actually got much worse than this...ended up getting literally 0 visibility

 

[FireFighter 227]

Any of you have experience with the Cuban cigars that the sell at the hodgie shops?