Well recently our esteemed platoon sergeant decided to detain (arrest) any elder that was involved in allowing the kids to throw rocks at his soldiers. His idea behind this was to threaten them with jail if they continued to allow kids to fling rocks at us. The theory worked for a few weeks but these…

In my job as a United States Infantryman there are a lot of stresses that we have and need to overcome. Most of these stresses result from combat, but a lot of them also come from family problems that we can not do anything about while we are deployed. For example I just recently found…

Well some of the people who read my blog to keep up with my daily life over here in Afghanistan really liked the bit I wrote on slingshots. So with that said one of my associates (who shall remain anonymous) and I have decided that I should continue writing about the sport of rock flinging….

I am sure we all remember the Old Testament passage about David and Goliath and how David took Goliath out with a mere rock. Well folks in this area bullets are not the only thing that come flying at you in hopes that they will do damage. Rock’s are flung quite often at myself and…