Well, in the area, a whole lot, for the team, not too much.
Since 30 JUN 09 (Sovereignty Day) the National Police have been on the ball. They are really taking charge of the area and keeping pretty good order. There has been one significant activity - - one of the big Sunni bosses was assassinated, pretty tragic: he was one of the leaders that convinced the Sunni population to stop fighting everyone and settle down in this area. He was blown up in his car, Mafia Style, the other guy in the car only got a few scratches. I was pretty worried when I heard about it because the folks that everyone suspected have been on the warrant request list for 3 months.
Somehow all of the planets and stars aligned and one of the new judges issued 14 warrants for arrest in less than 4 days. So far, 9 arrests have been made, so the National Police are looking pretty good in the eyes of the population. After the arrests, BG E was pretty much giggling the whole day he was so happy. There are 5 more folks to arrest, he thinks they will have them here shortly. I think they got this security stuff down.
Because the National Police are on it, the team doesn't have a whole lot to do, but I guess that is a small sacrifice for good security in this corner of Iraq.
Other news:
About 40 days til we start heading towards Kuwait, I do hope it is easier to leave than it was to get here.
I am on week 7 of my Army Ten Miler Training Plan, I am able to keep pace on most of the runs, but I have to break the long tempo runs down to one mile chunks and do them as interval runs. I thought I had a pretty good base laid down, but I am not able to sustain speed for over a mile. I am sure it will all work out.
2 comments:
Happy to hear things are going well and you'll be headed back to the US and your running training. It's a good thing, they have the races in age groups. Even though, I found out I can't keep up with the 74 year old marathon runners on the tennis court. Not that I have trained for that either. Anyway glad to hear you are well and running. Faye
Down time sounds like planning time for FFL. Since you don't get the true news there let me tell you who to pick. Vick and Favre along with Donte Stallworth and Plaxico Burris. That is the basis of a winning team. I've run once since my surgery and I think I have a stress fracture in my right foot. My body is littering breaking down and tearing apart. WJL
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