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Digging for Fire A chronicle of modern warfare from a former Marine infantry sergeant. Hit-Haditha Corridor, al-Anbar Province, Iraq 2004-2005. Ben Christensen is a writer who re-enlisted into his old Marine reserve unit when he thought they would be deploying to Iraq. Even though he had his honorable discharge and a comfortable career as a high school English teacher, and a wife and two sons with another son on the way, he re-enlisted in February 2004 and received deployment orders in April. Christensen is named after his father's young uncle, Benjamin Christensen, who was killed in northern Italy 20 days before the end of World War II, where he served as an infantryman in the 10th Mountain Division, 86th Infantry, India Company third platoon. As a Marine sergeant, Christensen went off adventuring, thinking he would not see any action, but wound up as the senior fireteam leader and breacher for second platoon, Charlie Company, Task Force 1-23, 7th Regimental Combat Team, 1st MARDIV. He saw some moderate fighting and participated in several successful raids on local Sunni insurgent leaders in and around Hit and Haditha.
Iraq veteran spouts off on all things military. Topics include: veterans' benefits, war news, military life, military history, and damn near anything else I feel like writing about that fits within the theme.
Owned and operated by me, Dacker, a former combat arms Soldier. I spent years in private industry before joining up after 9/11, and fully intended to return to civilian life after my time was up. That gave me an interesting perspective during my time in the Army and Iraq ... and the power to be a smartass junior officer who took care of Soldiers without worrying about a career. I'm back in civilian life now and eager to share my thoughts and opinions on things affecting service members, and to hear yours.
SomeIraqVeteran.com is intended to appeal to anyone who has served, is serving, is considering serving, or just plain likes cool military stuff. Providing you with military news, videos and original content is my goal. Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Coast Guardies - it doesn't matter. One team one fight.
This is my place to share the lessons I have learned as a Navy spouse. Navy Life Lessons, Parenting lessons, Menu and budgeting ideas. The list goes on. My blog is where I express the information that I have picked up in my time as a Navy spouse and Spouse Mentor. The challenges of raising 4 kids around the military,going to school, running a home business are just some of the other topics that I cover. This life has afforded me the ability to laugh at myself and the things that I deal with from day to day. There are so many things that military families face that civilian families have a hard time understanding. I hope that my blog helps to teach those who are not around the military a little bit about what it is to deal with the day to day things that Military spouses contend with. Family thousands of miles away, friends that move away every few years, what it is to PCS or better yet PCS across the country with 4 kids and a dog. Entitlements, POA's, the list can go on and on. I try to give the most up to date information on the issues that we face.
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