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Some background to this: the author, Colby Buzzell, is/was famous for his blog "My War" written while we was serving in Iraq. It was compelling reading to say the least, for example "Men in Black":

https://web.archive.org/web/20041206093944/http://cbftw.blog...

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Semi-related, this reminds me of a friend-of-a-friend at the time who was in Iraq. He also had a gift for both writing and photography, though I don't think he ever achieved success of either. Here's a rather horrific photographic post from the time about the results of some of the ammunition used: http://lafinjack.livejournal.com/41715.html

His blog from that time period is both fascinating and horrifying in both pictures and stories.

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