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Archives
- 2008.06.20: Veterans against the war
- 2008.03.09: More negative prooganda
- 2008.02.12: A young NCO
- 2007.09.20: Plato and Socrates
- 2007.09.13: VA benefits and Congress
- 2007.09.06: Good luck kid!
- 2007.02.15: Cowards in Congress
- 2007.02.11: One year later
- 2006.12.08: Revolution?
- 2006.11.17: The indifferent
- 2006.10.16: Bush Haters
- 2006.10.11: Time to Vote
- 2006.09.09: Teaching Islam to America
- 2006.06.06: Baby Killers
- 2006.05.23: Arlington West
- 2006.04.18: Loyalty, Officers and disgrace
- 2006.04.06: Real contributions
- 2006.03.16: Everybody's Infantry
- 2006.03.03: Part deux Crime/Punishment
- 2006.02.16: Crime and punishment
- 2006.02.16: Screening comments ?
- 2006.02.13: Technically and Tactically Profecient
- 2006.02.09: Corrective action and NCO's
- 2006.02.07: So you're hungry ? Too bad!
- 2006.02.06: The lead NCO
- 2006.02.03: Anger Management
- 2006.02.01: Response to comments and the facts
- 2006.01.28: Heroes and Phonies
- 2006.01.25: What just happened ?
- 2006.01.20: Free at last!!!
- 2006.01.12: Welcome home ?
- 2006.01.08: Going home, sort of
- 2005.12.25: Comments from Seargeants
- 2005.12.22: A heartfelt goodbye
- 2005.12.20: Election Day in Iraq
- 2005.12.18: Elections and nearing the end
- 2005.12.07: Motivational speakers ?
- 2005.12.04: Takfah-ree and Iraqis
- 2005.11.27: "Overthere" "Jarhead" and Jodie
- 2005.11.23: Almost Home/Holiday misery
- 2005.11.11: A Memorial Service
- 2005.11.06: Relief, Anger and Guilt
- 2005.10.24: Back to reality
- 2005.10.23: R&R - Rest and Relaxation
- 2005.10.22: Fellowship, Patriots and Politics
- 2005.10.01: The Log Pack
- 2005.09.24: Game over
- 2005.09.20: Ramadan
- 2005.09.09: Making progress and winning !!
- 2005.09.03: Summer ends, finally
- 2005.08.26: The crews
- 2005.08.23: The latest
- 2005.08.14: A trip to the medics
- 2005.08.10: One backward glance
- 2005.08.10: Dust Storms
- 2005.08.03: Medics and kicking it with the IA
- 2005.07.30: Two digit midgets/short-timers
- 2005.07.19: What's a life worth ?
- 2005.07.19: Anxiety on the bridge
- 2005.07.14: So that others might live
- 2005.07.13: Still learning
- 2005.07.08: Attitude and LGOP's
- 2005.07.05: The Terps
- 2005.07.02: Forming habits
- 2005.06.30: A moral question
- 2005.06.20: Voice in pain
- 2005.06.18: I'd like that in writing
- 2005.06.12: Mangaria
- 2005.06.10: Incoming
- 2005.06.01: Patrolling
- 2005.05.30: He was a good man
- 2005.05.26: By the Way
- 2005.05.22: Getting hotter
- 2005.05.10: Little viddles
- 2005.05.07: Is today the day?
- 2005.05.03: Things picking up
- 2005.04.28: REMF's and POGE's
- 2005.04.28: Symbol of honor or token of affection?
- 2005.04.28: The Iraqi soldier
- 2005.04.28: Moving to O'Ryan
- 2005.04.22: To Help Iraq's children
- 2005.04.22: To the FOB
- 2005.04.15: My Chaplain and Shooters
- 2005.04.14: Inside the wire
- 2005.04.12: The second day
- 2005.04.10: Two days with the IA
- 2005.04.09: It's called respect
- 2005.04.08: Your comments
- 2005.04.07: Watkins
- 2005.04.02: Biblical Scenes
- 2005.04.01: The LSA
- 2005.03.31: Flying Green Banana
- 2005.03.30: It's about verbage
- 2005.03.28: Easter Sunday
- 2005.03.26: A day at the hospital
- 2005.03.26: A Bad day
- 2005.03.24: Food
- 2005.03.21: Salam Alekum
- 2005.03.20: The mission, the people, the truth
- 2005.03.19: Duty before safety?
- 2005.03.17: A soldier from Mississippi
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Elias Banales has lived in Oxnard since 1973. He has a large family with five brothers and three sisters. Banales is a 23-year military veteran with 18 years as a paratrooper.
He recently served a one-year deployment in central Iraq. Banales worked closely with the people and Army of Iraq. He writes about these experiences and the perceptions and opinions of the Iraqis he met along the way.
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