Category Archives for Iraq

My blog from when i went to Iraq on op Telic 7 in 2005. This was a TA deployment with the West Midlands Regiment, E coy Light Infantry.

Sleep depravation and rocket attacks….

Well Christmas and new year are now over and to be honest I’m glad… very bah humbug I know but New years eve ended up being a repeat of Christmas day, the same patrol, same time and no beer but hey that’s life… I’m not saying I didn’t have a laugh and feel a bit […]

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Christmas Day!!!!

Video Home from Iraq from Mike Hubbard on Vimeo. ITS CHRISTMAS!!!! What did we do? How did it go?? Well with all things considered it was a good day after all we’ve still got a job to do and the insurgents won’t take the day off so we can celebrate… Christmas eve was spent on […]

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The Ritz and Mr Blair…..

Next we have Ritz gate…. This is the first of the staging on tasks (stag is guard). When the my platoon come of mobiles 1 onto the Ritz gate we have normally been on a tasking in the day or early in the morning so it’s been a long day already. What do we do […]

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