Late on the evening of Oct. 19th our band of ten landed at COB Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq. Formerly it was FOB Speicher (forward operating base) but because of it’s size was reassigned as a COB (contingency operating base). It was also formerly Al Sahra Airfield under Saddam. Tikrit, of course, is famous for [...]

From Tom Richmond’s Blog:
Arriving at the airport in Kuwait City, I was prepared for some major culture shock. Traveling in Europe is one thing… usually you can figure out the meaning of things like signs based on the common nature of the Latin based languages, and they all use the same basic alphabetical charters which [...]

From Tom Richmond’s Blog:
The 2009 NCS Cartoonist USO Tour band members:
Jeff Bacon of “Broadside” and “Greenside”
Chip Bok syndicated editorial cartoonist
Bruce Higdon of Army Times, Army Magazine, Soldiers Magazine, and Stars and Stripes
Jeff Keane of “The Family Circus”
Rick Kirkman of “Baby Blues”
Stephan Pastis of “Pearls Before Swine”
Mike Peters of “Mother Goose and Grimm”
Michael Ramirez of Investors [...]