> Rob Kerns is a guy I met when we were serving together as enlisted Navy Journalists on board USS Theodore Roosevelt, during Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. While he and I ... differ with regard to our politics, Rob is a fellow longtime superhero comic book fanboy, a budding Whovian (he's worked his way through all three seasons of NuWho, and is now delving into the original series on DVD), and more importantly, he busted his ass to cover mine on any number of occasions on board ship, when I was placed at risk by others' duplicity and my own jaw-dropping stupidity.
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> Well, Rob has had a rough go of it the past couple of years, since the shoreside duty station in New Orleans that he was rightly pleased to get wound up being blown away (literally) by Hurricane Katrina, his next duty station stranded him on the atoll of Diego Garcia, and (I don't think I'm revealing any secrets by saying this) his mother passed away not too long ago.
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> The latest bit of good news for him is that, starting this April, he'll be serving six months in the delightful quagmire that is Iraq. I joke about my bad luck, but even after seven years in the military, the two foreign wars in which I served were from the relative comfort of the decks of an aircraft carrier, far away from any actual fighting. By contrast, Rob will be going shoreside, to a country in which the people who live there have an observed tendency to shoot at the people who come from here.
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> In short, this is some serious shit.
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> Rob has created a Blogspot account for himself, to help him reach a maximum amount of people in a minimum amount of time - for those who might not have realized, civilian conveniences such as Internet access, and bulletproof vests, tend to be somewhat more sparse in their ready availability in Iraq - and I'd encourage you to send him your well-wishes there, along with any prayers or positive vibes you might consider appropriate ("Don't die or become permanently crippled" would be a pertinent sentiment, I would think).
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> Just click the link:
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> Robcasting
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