Two more stories

Two things I forgot from yesterday. First, you have to be careful of what you say around the Iraqi, because many of them do speak at least some english. Gy Ellis was frustrated after this cluster of a raid we had about a week ago. We always try to get a digital picture of a detainee at the point of detention, with all evidence around him and the grid location written on the blindfold. A picture is worth a thousand words, especially to the Iraqi court system. Anyway, the Iraqis Gy Ellis had been with had NOT gotten a picture, and Gy was annoyed. At the brig here on base, the jailer asked for the picture. Gy says, with the Iraqi Lt right net to him, "They didn't bother to get one," or something like that. The Iraqi stops whatever he is doing and says in heavily accented english, "If you give to me the cammm-e-rrra, I will take the picture!" The only thing missing was the "wah wah wah wahhhhhh" and a sitcom laugh track. He and I still crack each other up by just saying "cammmm-e-rrrra" now. Hilarious!

Second, believe it or not, the heat wave has started to break, and it is now cool in the mornings and evenings. Still hot at noon, but not nearly as bad as even a week ago. Fall is around the corner, thank God. Our sense of scale is off, though. Anything below 90 and we feel like putting on an extra layer.

Gotta run.