The JimAnna Chronicles

Well, I have now been in Afghanistan for a month and a half … and this country is as beautiful, amazing and more troubled than I remembered. However, I feel that although we have a long way to go, progress is being made. As you may recall from my post in October, my role here [...]

OK, for those who have not heard, for all intents and purposes, I am in the Army for the next year or so. I have been training with the Army for a little more than 2 and 1/2 months now in Indiana, as well as North Carolina in preparation for a deployment to Afghanistan this [...]

A couple weeks ago, a group of us had the opportunity to witness the site of one of the most seminal battles of World War II. Officially it was named the Battle of the Ardennes by the US Army and Operation Wactch am Rhein by the Germany military, but popularly known as the Battle of [...]

While the US has been on this base for a relatively short period of time, the base has been around since the 1930′s. One of the areas we are responsible for is minor construction. So, we’ve been busy building things all over the base. This is one of our larger projects. We built several offices [...]

This post will be about some of the activities we’ve done to relax. While going out to dinner, or playing a round of golf is outside the realm of possibility, there are plenty of things to do. Quite honestly, the two most popular activities here are watching movies and playing video games. While I am [...]

Well, I have now been in Iraq for 4 months. I’ve seen beauty and ugliness here. However, the experience has been very rewarding and overall a very positive one. In a few short weeks, I will be home in Germany. Below are some images from my time here. If you think this plane looks small, [...]

I know it has been a while since I posted a new entry. My apologies for the delay. This is the first of what I hope is at least a two part post. I am trying to capture an image of all the fauna I see running around. As I become more familiar with my [...]

This begins by deployment to Iraq. I have decided to continue updating the website as more of a traditional blog, instead of a travelogue. Hello again everyone. Well, I have arrived at my new home for the summer/fall. Even though I have deployed before, it’s certainly a bit of an adjustment to re-acclimate to the [...]

Ok, here is the second batch of my favorite pictures. This next group of pictures is a SMALL sampling of pictures from my deployment to central and southwest Asia in 2003-04. The first picture is the view from a road in Afghanistan, about 30 miles away from Kabul at Bagram Air Base. As you can [...]

This entry is a forum to post some of my pictures that I really like. It’s a collection of everything since about 2003. There’s really no order here (other than I grouped like pictures roughly together). So, I’ll give a quick synopsis of the story for each picture, but I assume that most people just [...]