Topic: Daily Life
I threw a small party last night. Toward the end of the evening, a bunch of personal security detachment guys (PSDs) showed up. We ended up tossed a few back and teaching this young State Department kid, who was right out of college, how we drink Iraq.

As I was cleaning up the next morning, I would a backpack with an M-16 clip inside of it. There were a few soldiers at my place, but one of the PSDs probably owned the clip. I have a feeling that finding a clip isn't a common thing outside of Iraq. Here, it is so commonplace that I didn’t even think twice about it. I simply left it on my porch for about an hour or two until someone finally came by to pick it up.