Night Convoy: Iraq

ladies i commend you on all you do I'm a medic that just came back from iraq and ran convoys for 12 months so hats off i know how tuff ur job is!!! :)

great pod! Just being a women in the military is hard enough, but being a women deployed, especially in a country that doesn't appreciate women in a position of authority, is a feet! I served 4years in the army, but was never deployed, so i take my hat off to these ladies.

I have to say it's almost just as hard being the one sitting at home worrying, but even more so when you're dual military! Both my hubby and i were differant branches, iwas army and he was marines. And while he went through the turmoils of deployment and missing me, i went through the turmoils of everyday military life as well as most of my pregnancy with our first child alone. The weeks without phonecalls, the days without sleep, worrying about him, being in and out of the field and the troubles of having a not very easy pregnancy, were enough to make you go insane!

I think current should do something on dual military couples and their deployments.

I ran convoys in Iraq, from TQ to Anaconda for 16 months. E 2/136 CAB. Stay strong, keep your eyes open, and don't back down from a fight. Keep close to your truck team, they are your life. God's Speed, Ladies and come home soon.

Another truly excellent pod. I'd like to see what yellajournalist has been up to since.

I guess I'm the only one so far who found this piece disturbing...especially the bit where one of the chicks laments over not being able to shoot something while giggling... I guess the military isn't too keen on having any respect for human life.

The only thing I kept thinking was that these poor women were too young and misinformed to be there in the first place.

What a joke - women in the military.
Actually the joke is Stacey Masters. Get her off the camera and this would be a better program.
Stacey Masters is a joke.

That's the "FOURTH". Sorry, typo.

They (the go'vt) talk about spreading democracy, the soldiers are nothing but pawns; but remember this--in less than a month we'll be celebrating our own insurgency--THE FORTH OF JULY. Now the US has become the redcoats, bullying all over the world. How soon we forget! Why be proud to be a redcoat??

Hope they make it back. As an aside, Blacks have NO business fighting in racist, imperialist debacles like this one.

Amazing! Gawd, I wish i was like those women...risking their lives for a pointless war.

I'd like to do this kind of journalism. Great work.

WTF? it snows in Iraq? Since when? Where is this?

excellent excellent work!

This is one of the best pods we've had come through CJ.