The World According To Chris Brewer

Onto Thursday…after convoying back to Tallil overnight, we were not able to get out to Camp Cedars II so we decided to hit up the Ziggurat of Ur and make a huge story out of that. I wrote a previous blog post on that. After we came back from the Ziggurat we chilled out for the rest of the day, hit up the chow hall, watched Star Wars Episode II on my laptop and called it a night. Thursday was pretty light.

Friday we were back at it again, up and at ‘em early to go shoot our final set of footage…this time with members of the convoy we rode down with. They were basically taking their humvees into the shop to work on them and tune them up, so we hung out and interviewed them there. Before we knew it we had to gather at a staging point at 3 PM to catch a convoy ride back to Baghdad International Airport (BIAP).

It was pretty much the same story on the way back…hurry up and wait. After 11 hours of roadtripping across Iraq back to BIAP, we waited all night until 7:30 AM for our helo ride back to the IZ. Then it was all over….I slept Saturday off and went back to work yesterday.

So here I am now, and I anchored the newscast today. I’ll be sure to show you that soon. Gotta run for now, but you all be good out there.