back, kinda

[Tobiasly]

Originally posted by OnyxCougar
My nephew is a Marine, and was with Oliver North's unit, so we got to keep up with him that way.

Man, that's unfair! Glad you liked the pictures though.

My brother sent me a link to a CNN article that informed me just how close I came to getting whacked. On March 27, an Al-Samoud missile was launched at the headquarters of the Coalition Forces Land Component Command -- the building right next to ours. An analysis of the trajectory determined it would have landed "on or near" its target, had it not been intercepted by a Patriot missile.

I remember that morning, because we were packing to head up into Iraq. The alarm went off, and we all put on our gear, as had become almost routine at the time. Then, we heard two "whoosh"es as the Patriots launched, followed maybe a second later by the explosion. I remember thinking at the time, "man, that couldn't have been more than a few hundred meters away", but never got the chance to ask about it afterwards.