- AIRFIELD OPERATIONS FLIGHT -

     - TALLIL AB, IRAQ -     

- OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM -

Tallil tower with the shower and water buffalo in back.

Translation: "Control and types of Air Force Unit"

Tallil Airfield Operations Flight and Combat Weather Team

Tower shower

Slit-trench out house

Tallil Airfield Management at the Saddam Mural (SSgt Johnson, A1C Drake and SSgt Leonini)

Tallil Airfield Primary Surface

Another Primary Surface Violation

UXO's....Russian, 57mm rockets on the south side of the runway!

Chemical Bunker

TSgt Joe Brannagan, "Who needs a pistol?  I have a HUMMER!"

SSgt Douglas with the An Nasiriya police cruiser.

SSgt Leonini with a newly acquired Airfield Management tool

MSgt Watson, A1C Parrish, SSgt Shipp, SSgt Johnson and SSgt Leonini

SSgt Johnson in the house of Abraham, Ur, Iraq

MSgt Goldstein at the house of Abraham, Ur, Iraq

The Ziggurat at Ur, Iraq

Combat Duck at the Ziggurat!

The new Airfield Management UTC package?!?!?

The First Tallil Weather Team!

Driving to the Bedouin camps to deliver food and water

Iraqi woman coming for water

SSgt Leonini and myself with Iraqi Bedouin children 

More Iraqi Bedouins waiting for water

Bedouin boy playing with his new Nerf football while a woman spins wool into yarn.

The camel that thinks he's a sheep!

Iraqi gas masks found at a training camp near An Nasariha

Iraqi uniforms found at the training camp

RPG-7 rounds in the camp

Mortar rounds in the camp

Close-up of the mortar rounds found in the camp

Patrick and Kim at Saddam International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq!

I couldn't travel this far without stopping in Baghdad!

Getting an autograph from Gunny Lee Ermy

Group photo with Gunny Ermy

M249 gunner on Basrah convoy with the British RAF

Swapping weapons with the RAF on the convoy

RAF ATC guys with Airfield Management

Steeler fans, even in Iraq!

Tallil ATC crew in front of an RQ-1 Pedator

TSgt Brannagan, MSgt Goldstein and SSgt Johnson

Getting some trigger time with the Marines in the Iraqi Desert!

Randy, Christin, Kate and Elizabeth

*** Update:  I'm home now!!! ***