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  • Chapter 3: Culture (Lesson 3A: Chai and the Pashtunwali

    Here is a description, in detail, the uniquely Afghan experience of having chai. A leadership recently in Afghanistan was telling its Soldiers not to drink chai. Don't listen to stuff like that; it will have you insulting people left and right. One of the key tenets of the Pushtunwali , the code of conduct of the Pashtuns, is hospitality. Hospitality is not just a Pashtun value, though. It is an Afghan value. It is shame to be considered inhospitable, and as O and I discussed over the weekend...

  • Chapter 1: Gear

    In partnership with Bouhammer , we are starting a new series of posts designed to help inform the thousands of troops headed to Afghanistan in 2009, some of whom expected to deploy to Iraq. Those who thought they were headed to Iraq now find themselves behind the power curve in coming up to speed on the peculiarities of Afghanistan. By request from SGTDanger , here is the first chapter in our attempt to help them to be more successful in A'stan.List of Gear for Afghanistan-UpdatedPosted By Bouhammer...

  • This site is going dormant

    The four creators and authors of this site have decided that we will not be posting blog entries here anymore. We have all been out of country several years and our lessons learned are not current or relevant to what is happening on the battlefield today. We all have our own blogs and will continue to blog there, but won't be posting here any more in the future. We have decided to leave this site up and let is stay on the internet as long as Blogger will allow it to be in order to keep available...

  • IEDs Continue to be a Problem

    Sgt. Stryker here with a serious topic – IED – improvised explosive devices. These can be some of the meanest weapons in the enemy’s arsenal. Made from anything (and everything), they’re easily disguised so that coalition troops in Afghanistan (and the country on the other side of Iran) still have problems with them. This cowardly [...]
    Posted to Sgt. Stryker by Sgt Stryker on 08-15-2009
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  • Friendly Fire All Around

    No one likes when it happens, least of all me, but friendly fire sometimes happens. And not just from the US military. For example, Several Afghan national police were wounded when two AH-64 Apache helicopters responded to small arms fire from insurgents in the early morning hours in Ghazni province on August 8, 2009. [...]
    Posted to Sgt. Stryker by Sgt Stryker on 08-11-2009
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  • Afghanistan Battles Continue

    Hey, Sgt. Stryker here. Hope I haven’t run some of you off with my sometimes harsh words. You have to know where I’m coming from. I don’t want to talk about it too much at the moment. There’s too much else to talk about. Take August 5, 2009 in Afghanistan. International security forces killed five [...]
    Posted to Sgt. Stryker by Sgt Stryker on 08-09-2009
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  • RIP Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher

    Well, they found him. Finally. It’s done, though. Remains found last month in Iraq’s Anbar province are those of Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher. If you remember, he was shot down flying a combat mission in an F/A-18 Hornet on January 17, 1991. His fate (until now) had been uncertain. “Our thoughts and prayers [...]
    Posted to Sgt. Stryker by Sgt Stryker on 08-07-2009
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  • Success in Iraq = Hope in Afghanistan

    While US officials are starting to call for even more troops to head to Afghanistan, you can bet there’s a lot of smart military people looking at all the successes in Iraq and planning to implement some of the same measures in Afghanistan. If you step back and look at the big picture, it really [...]
    Posted to Sgt. Stryker by Sgt Stryker on 08-04-2009
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  • More and More Action in Afghanistan

    Sgt Stryker here with news of more and more engagements (and victories – big victories) in Afghanistan. As I’ve said, it’s gonna take time, but things are moving forward. In an operation July 26, 2009, a joint Afghan and coalition force searched a compound in Khost province believed to be frequented by an insurgent known [...]
    Posted to Sgt. Stryker by Sgt Stryker on 08-01-2009
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  • Training is Important for Every Military

    Whether you’re talking about the US military, NATO, or even the Afghan National Army, training is of upmost importance. As you may know the US Military has some of the best training in the world – military or civilian. If not the best. That’s saying a lot, but if you look at the size of [...]
    Posted to Sgt. Stryker by Sgt Stryker on 07-31-2009

  • Drugs, Money, and the Taliban

    Sgt. Stryker here. I’m back. There’s been a lot of action surrounding the drug trade in Afghanistan. Poppy production is one of the major ways the taliban raise cash to fund their terror. Because of this, it’s important for the coalition to back Afghanistan when she tries to stop the drug problem in the country. [...]
    Posted to Sgt. Stryker by Sgt Stryker on 07-30-2009
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  • Soldiers Giving Their Lives + Building Bridges in Afghanistan

    You may not have heard about it, but back on July 18, two U.S. Air Force officers were killed the morning of July 18 in the crash of an F-15E. The aircraft was flying in support of coalition operations in eastern Afghanistan. The crash occurred at approximately 3:15 a.m., Kabul time. “Our thoughts and prayers [...]
    Posted to Sgt. Stryker by Sgt Stryker on 07-28-2009
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  • Angelina Jolie Supports the Troops + Afghanistan

    While summer is a time for breaks for most of us, the US military is hard at work around the world, taking care of problems as they arise. It only happens infrequently, but there are celebrities working hard as well to support the troops. Angelina Jolie recently went to Baghdad to bring some morale to [...]
    Posted to Sgt. Stryker by Sgt Stryker on 07-24-2009
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  • Let’s Not Forget About Iraq

    While it seems Iran and Afghanistan are getting most of the media attention these days, let’s not forget the huge deployment still situated in Iraq. Things are going better, but there are still bumps in the road ahead. There are more and more positive signs coming out of the country. For example, the 1st [...]
    Posted to Sgt. Stryker by Sgt Stryker on 09-11-2009
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  • Elections in Afghanistan

    It’s that time again – elections in Afghanistan. This is one of the more important elections in that area in a while. Although, when you think about it, most things happening in that part of the world end up affecting us here in the states eventually. It’s weird to think about that sometimes. Anyway, the [...]
    Posted to Sgt. Stryker by Sgt Stryker on 09-17-2009
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