FOB Marez, Mosul __ It is really hard here to keep up with what is going on in the world.
Internet access is very limited. There are sometimes copies of the Stars of Stripes newspaper around, but they are a week old at best.
I’m vaguely aware there is another Congressional scandal going on. Even the news from elsewhere in Iraq is hard to follow.
I get the sense that it’s the same for most of the soldiers. They might catch a few minutes of Armed Forces Network news between missions, but prized Internet time is often spent emailing instead of checking out the news.
Some events, though, do grab people’s attention. Everyone was talking about the small plane that crashed into a New York high rise.
Fort Lewis soldiers all wanted to know whether it might be terrorism. It turned out not to be. But, for obvious reasons, it’s a possibility people here are pretty highly attuned to.
-- Sean Cockerham