The World According To Chris Brewer

Well it appears I am being afforded an opportunity to do the job that I do normally back at Langley. Which means I am going to be a news broadcaster and not have to do any more of these lame projects. Of all the projects I’ve done as a member of the Special Projects team, I think maybe one or two of them (the times I have been able to interview members of Congress visiting Iraq) have been part of the AFN mission. The rest is combat camera stuff that somehow we at AFN Iraq have been forced into doing…which is why there is a Special Projects section.

But I’m moving away from that. Now it’s time to do legitimate news. The only reason I don’t care for doing news here is that it requires us to fly anywhere and everywhere across Iraq, we’ve got to haul all our stuff around and don’t get too much help…and factor in that I am a member of the Air Force and since it’s primarily Army stories that air on AFN, if they send me to shoot some Army folks it’s gonna be tough to get a good idea of what I’m shooting. My three hopes for me being in news are the following: that I can get the Air Force more exposure on Freedom Journal Iraq because they’re not getting the recognition they deserve, that I can also sit in the anchor chair when time allows and be the face of the news, and that I can make a killer demo reel to take back to news stations in Springfield, MO.

As much as I don’t want to go into news, I am now starting to realize there are good aspects of it and really, if it wasn’t meant to happen, God wouldn’t let it happen to me. I think God had a good reason for them putting me in the news section here, so I’m here to just shut up and do what I have to do until it’s time to go home.