The New Englander

Arrrghhh...okay I admit I couldn't help myself with that title. I tried not to, really. Here's a neat piece about the Yankee Brigade...

The photo you see here was taken at Kabul International Airport (that's KAIA, because we'd never call it KIA) on the day we touched ...

The other day at the US Embassy in Kabul I bumped into a guy who works as the Strategic Intel Analyst for Ambassador Eikenberry. "That...

I'm finally back online. Since we got here, I've been living in temporary housing, but now that our predecessor unit left, I'm i...

The past week has been kind of a whirlwind of travel. From North Fort Hood to Manas AB outside of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan...by way of Bangor, ME...

There are tons of unknowns in the military. You might think you're joining the Guard to do Civil Affairs, but get shunted off to Staff W...

So we're in a bit of a holding pattern right now, somewhere between here and there. One of the things I'm making my guys do before w...