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January 2008


January 12, 2008

The luxury of bean dip

CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti—What a week. Originally, this week, I was supposed to head to Kenya to cover a veterinary civil action program, or VETCAP, sponsored by Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (http://www.hoa.centcom.mil/), the U.S. Embassy in Kenya, and USAID. Not only was I going to cover it as a journalist, but I was going to get to assist a civil affairs team in vaccinating some of the animals as well. I was super excited about getting such an opportunity, but with all the violence that erupted in Kenya recently, the mission was scrapped, for now anyway.

With the Kenya mission scrapped, a new really cool mission came up for me in its place. I was going to cover a school dedication that that would have... Read more »

Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 in Halpin at Large | Permalink | Comments

January 6, 2008

Happy new year

CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti—Finally, the holidays are over. Christmas Day and New Year's Day were days off here. Being that we have a seven-day work week, it was nice to relax a little bit. Well sort of.

My commander, positioned over at U.S. Central Command Headquarters in Florida (those are the people 'in charge' of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom), an Army major, paid my compadre and I a visit for the holidays. Let me back up a second.

My compadre is the crazy Army sergeant recalled back into the Army that I've mentioned previously. He and I were split off from the unit we're deployed with and were sent here to Africa. (Not unusual as our original group of 20 is now split into five groups, spread across three continents—that last part is a bit... Read more »

Posted on Sunday, January 6, 2008 in Halpin at Large | Permalink | Comments

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