Some of the stuff I filed from Baghdad, and some older reports from back in Canada:
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War Stats
- source: Iraq Coalition Casualties
- Iraq War Fatalities Map
Flash site of fatalities, by date, location and intensity.- Iraq pipeline watch
List of oil infrastructure attcaks from Institute for the Analysis of Global Security- Brookings Institute Iraq Index
A statistical compilation of economic, public opinion, and security data on Iraq, updated Monday and Thursday.- Journalists in Danger
The Committee to Protect Journalists' Iraq homepage. - Iraq War Fatalities Map
War NewsWire
News Radio
Field Photos
War Slang
- Sandbox
Iraq. In-country. The A/O - Pogues / POGS
People Other Than Grunts. Military support troops. Also see: REMF. derog. - DFAC
Dining FACility. (pronounced dee-Fak). usually modern tent facilities run by contractors. Also Chow Hall, or little used vietnam era Mess Hall. - Mortaritaville, Bombaconda
LSA Anaconda a major base near Balad, so-called for the frequency of insurgent mortar / rocket attacks - REMF
rear-echelon motherf**. old Vietnam-era slang revived. - VBIED
Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devise. i.e.. Car Bomb. - IED
Improvised Explosive Device. i.e. homemade bomb - Battle rattle
Personal infantry gear, including weapon, ammunition clips, kevlar, helmet - TLAs
Three Letter Acronyms. The army's favorite abbreviations. click through Militraywords.com to get a random definition of one of the 100,000 or so acronyms. - FOB
Forward Operating Base. - Haji
Any Iraqis, Arabs, or Muslims; use derogatorily for the enemy (like Charlie in Vietnam). Derived from the Arabic term for pilgrims to Mecca. - Muj
(pronn: Mooj). short for Mujahadeen. Insurgents. Often used half-jokingly with Iraqis: "you mooj?" - OEF
Operation Enduring Freedom. - OIF
Operation Iraqi Freedom - Yalla
(arabic). Go. Let's go. - KBR
Kellogg, Brown & Root. Halliburton subsidiary, Pentagon contractor. - PSD
Personal Security Detail. Private security contractors / bodyguards. Effectively the second largest armed coalition force in Iraq, largely unregulated. - Haji armor
improvised armor, like steel plates, installed on vehicles, usually humvees. Also see: hillbilly armor. - IPs
Iraqi Police - ICDC
Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (army) - TCNs
Third Country Nationals. Includes the Nepalese ghurkas providing PSD, or the Bangladeshi and Pakistani cooks, maids, barbers providing contracted services. - SecDef
American Secretary of Defence. - Rhino
A heavily armored bus, or minibus, usually transporting contractors from BIAP to the GZ - BIAP
Baghdad International Airport. There are two sections, the main terminal for civilian flight and a military fterminal. - OGAs
Other Government Agencies. i.e. CIA, FBI, various spooks and special forces. - Green Zone
Heavily guarded area of closed-off streets in central Baghdad where US, coalition and iraqi authorities live and work. Houses many of Saddam Hussien's former palaces. Other area of Iraq are "red zone". Also known as the International Zone (IZ). - Wiskey Tango Foxtrot
WTF. What the f**k? - Hooch
Military living quarters in the a/o, from bare floors to barracks - Chow
Food. - MREs
Meals Ready to Eat. High-calorie, high-nutrient, packaged field rations, heated by a chemical pouch. A neverending source of military conversation and constipation. - BCGs
Basic Combat Glasses, better known as Birth Control Glasses/Goggles. The standard military issue thick lensed and framed eyeglasses. Damn ugly. or Geek Chic. - A/O
Area of operations. Where the war is. - OPSEC
Operational Security. Stuff you're not supposed to talk about. Which, depending who you're talking to, can include the acknowledgment of your very existence. - Fobbits
(n, pl) now replacing the slur REMFs. 2) orig: The REMFs who travel Iraq by hopping from one Forward Operating Base (FOB) to another. (via Back to Iraq). - SASO
Security and Stability Operations. Mounted or dismounted "presence" patrols; sometimes considered "bait" to draw out insurgents. Also SASO World (see link "SASO World is 10 times scarier than any offensive," - BDU
Battle Dress Uniform. Combat fatigues. - MOS
Military Occupational Specialty. Your job, expressed by the appropriate military desigation: e.g., 11B Infantryman - AAFES
The Army and Air Force Exchange Service. The old PX (Post exchange), where you can buy all sort of useful (goggles), and useless (patio furniture), stuff in the A/O, with your combat pay. - RPG
Rocket Propelled Grenade. - CENTCOM
United States Central Command. Headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, whose "Areas Of Responsibility" (AORs) stretches from the Horn of Africa to Central Asia. Components include: USARCENT (Army), USCENTAF (Air Force), USMARCENT (Marines), USNAVCENT (Navy), Special Operations (SOCCENT), NORTHCOM (Homeland Defense). - TCP
Traffic control point. Checkpoint. - CHU
(Choo) Containerized Housing Unit: "basically aluminum shipping containers with linoleum floors and cots or beds inside." Also see hootch
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