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Cooler weather

Bradley Palmer — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:23:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
Hey everyone. It has been an eventful few months! Lots of successful missions from the men in B/6-4 CAV. And lots of successful FIRE MISSIONS by the men of 1/A/1-6 FA. We have stayed busy indeed. We have had a lot of good times and we have built up the Gunline in the meantime as well. We now have our own MWR room complete with a 42" TV just waiting on a game system to complete the mix. The room was built entirely by the Soldiers of 1st Platoon with the guidance and support of some...read more

Smooth transition to rockets, recoilless rifles, and mortars - Oh my!

Bradley Palmer — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:08:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
Well it has definitely been a while since my last post, but in my defense things have definitely been picking up! My counter part [LT Sasaki] and I have traded positions, moving him into the FSO slot and myself into the Platoon Leader/FDO slot. The change is going well, and each of us is excited to work with new groups of Soldiers and see Artillery life from different perspectives. I'm just glad we both get to stay out here and not have to switch to different COPs! We have steadily been...read more

Busy = Good

Bradley Palmer — Thu, 12 May 2011 17:24:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
The days going by faster and faster. Some days are long, but because there is so much to do it seems like there isn't enough time to get it all done! But we always make it happen. It's good to be busy because it makes the time go by fast. It's crazy to sit down and just think about how much we've accomplished since getting here 4 1/2 months ago. Tons. It is pretty cool also to be able to say that during my first deployment US Forces took down Osama Bin Laden....read more

Blog break

Bradley Palmer — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:43:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
Decided to take a break out of today for a short blog session. Woke up. Ate some awesome food products that the lovely wife sent from home. Fruit cocktail, pop tarts, V8 fruit fusion. Delicious. Had some meetings. Caught up with some of my recent ANA friends. Pretty cool. I mean how many people do you know that have friends in the Afghan National Army? Interesting guys. The language barrier isn't really that big a deal. Tried to learn how to play their dice game. I taught them...read more

Do work

Bradley Palmer — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:58:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
With all the talk of the pay freeze going on back home it seems like its been ruffling a few feathers. There's a lot of negative talk around the media and on the internet. I stopped for a minute to reflect, and I can't help but to have noticed one thing - that despite the possibility that our Soldiers may not be receiving pay on the 1st or 15th for the work they do, they still do it. With a positive outlook and a "roger that" our Soldiers get the job done....read more

90 days down

Bradley Palmer — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:42:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
So the first 90 days are down. The OPTEMPO is up now. The fighting season has started. Everyone is staying busy here. The internet is getting better than it was when we got here. Can't complain. Mail takes a while to get here so that is really the only big issue we have. Other than that things are great! Just waiting for leave now ha ha. Well gotta hit the gym. Talk to y'all later! Brad...read more

Another day down

Bradley Palmer — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:47:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
Well its been a few days since I last posted! Its been busy. Internet has been up and down. Got a new cook. He made some awesome stuffed bell peppers the other day that tasted amazing!! That was cool. Just running patrols and what not. The days are blowing by super fast so thats good. Hopefully it keeps up like that, I'm sure it will. The gym is still the place to be when I have downtime. I can see how ppl get huge over deployment bc thats the only thing there is to do for fun! But its...read more

Night before deployment

Bradley Palmer — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:59:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
http://armystrongstories.com/blog-assets/bradley-palmer/files/VID00002.MP4 This is the night before deployment. Anxious and excited for the next day.. Brad...read more

1st deployment - Transit

Bradley Palmer — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:34:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
The video posts begin!! They're gonna be a little of order sorry about that. They'll be up for whoever wants to get a better idea of what a 1st deployment is like. This was me in Manas during transit with a couple of my NCOs. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100522181989984 Brad...read more

1st day in Afghanistan

Bradley Palmer — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:02:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
This is the first day we touched down at COP Wilderness. Good times. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100522455940984 Brad...read more

Just an update after a few weeks in country

Bradley Palmer — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:02:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
This is after I realized I hadn't done a video blog in a while. Things got real busy, real fast. But don't worry now that we have internet I'll keep the vids coming! http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100524173094794 Brad...read more

Its been a bit..

Bradley Palmer — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:03:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
Hey whoever reads this lol. Finally got some internet going over here at COP Wilderness. Things are chill. The gym is good. I'm trying to load up the videos I've been blogging but the connection is super slow. Hopefully I can get it to work! Other than that, a lot to say but not a lot to say. Been really busy so the first month has gone by fast. The scenery is good. Sometimes it snows and it covers the mountains. It is warm-ish during the day and cool at night. Not too bad. The rooms...read more

Pre-deployment Christmas

Bradley Palmer — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:38:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
So I'm going to be on my first deployment soon. I'm more anxious than anything. I'm excited to go, but not as excited to leave my wife and family behind. It's also my first Christmas with my wife here in Kentucky. Definitely cool to see snow on the ground during Christmas because in Texas its usually like 75 degrees!! But anyway I just wanted to start the first post of many with a "hey whats up" to everyone out there, and I'm sure...read more