Mosul Travel Blogs

I only ask before you make up in your mind your political beliefs off this war, i can only show the human side of being a soldier : ) This has been a journey that has changed my life FOREVER, cuz when im old and stuff im still gonna have a damn Veteran sticker on my walker! I grew up fast and learned a lot about myself and how to deal with change. God Bless...

Just a short little blog...about the desert. Written way after the fact, but written as if I was still there.

Mosul second largest city, Mosul is also called Um Al-Rabi'ain (The City of Two Springs), because autumn and spring are very similar. It is on both banks of the Tigress river. The University of Mosul is located here, and is one of the largest universities in the Middle East. There are many Mosques all over Mosul that are beautiful to look at......

Howdy everyone! Let me tell you all about my trip to Saint Elijah's Monastery located in northern Iraq, near the city of Mosul. The following excerpt is from wikipedia. The monastery was founded around 595 AD by Mar Elia, an Assyrian Christian monk who had previously studied at al-Hirah…

I didn't know if I really should have counted this...but I was there a year, and had my mail deliverd there...so that counts as "living there" I think

My deployment to Iraq from Jan - June 2008

These are the places I have been to since joining the Navy in 1991