#colby buzzell

[anintrovertinabigworld]

Link to My War: KILLING TIME IN IRAQ

Link to My War: KILLING TIME IN IRAQ

I referenced this blog in my 2nd post. So I wanted to provide the link to the blog and Colby Buzzell’s book.

http://cbftw.blogspot.com/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002DYMB12/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1#ace-g9766277718

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58625.My_War

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[weaponiized-humanist]

http://www.vice.com/read/fuck-the-fourth-of-july-235

It was month eight of our year-long deployment and I was in no mood to celebrate. It was 110-plus degrees—in the shade—and all I wanted on the fourth was some goddamn air-conditioning. That's it. That's all I wanted.

Nothing more, nothing less.

The Army had other plans. Not only did we have a late afternoon movement-to-contact mission and a late evening counter mortar mission, but there was a "mandatory fun" lunchtime BBQ that we had to attend. Happy Fourth.

Our mandatory fun took place at a makeshift BBQ stand that a couple of Turks had opened up as a business on our forward operating base, just a couple of wooden picnic tables set up under no shade. No beer was served, though there was an advertisement for beer taped up on a cooler. It was a European beer that I'd never heard of before and the ad depicted an ice-cold beer, in an icy cold glass. I stood there, fixated on this holy image, sweating my fucking ass off as I nostalgically thought back to all the beers I had consumed and enjoyed on previous July Fourths.

[keepcalmandreadondk]

Literary Cuisine for March 5th, 2016

Literary Cuisine for March 5th, 2016

Welcome to the first ever installment of Literary Cuisine. This series of blogs is posted every Saturday and recounts 5 gourmet pieces of entertainment that I have consumed this week and want to share with my readers. Without further ado, let’s begin… (more…)

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[asg-stuff]

MEN IN BLACK (Excerpt from 'Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience') (by Evan Parsons)

"Men in Black is a true story as told by soldier and writer Colby Buzzell about his experience in Iraq."

[comicscrux]

Evan Parsons' Animated Graphic Novel Shows Us 'What Combat Feels Like'

The “war on terror” has seen over 2.5 million U.S. service men and women deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and several thousand have been killed or injured. With What Combat Feels Like, filmmaker and graphic designer Evan Parsons brings the writing of veteran and writer Colby Buzzell to life with brilliant animation that feels as if you are turning the pages of a graphic novel yourself. This story helps us truly sense what those soldiers have felt, what they sacrificed and willingly given.

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[operationzeus]

Colby Buzzell is a writer and new journalist, but before that he was a soldier.  His book, "My War" is a candid account of a young soldier's experiences in the Army, and in combat.

His stories carry you from enlistment, to basic training, to being assigned to a unit, to pre-deployment training exercises, to deploying, to coming home, to getting out; narrating his thoughts and emotions along the way.  His work following my war was heavily based upon trying to find meaning in civilian life, including getting recalled to active duty via the Inactive Ready Reserve (backdoor draft), and even into building a family, and reacquainting himself with his country and fellow countrymen in his book "Lost In America: A Dead End Journey".

Much respect to Colby and his work in storytelling.

[longformdk]

Down & Out in Fresno and San Francisco

En ny anbefaling er blevet skrevet på longform.dk http://longform.dk/2013/03/fresno-san-francisco/

Down & Out in Fresno and San Francisco

“Hvis du vil skrive om Tenderloin, så er du nødt til at ryge noget crack,” siger en af personerne i Colby Buzzells historie om livet i Californiens skygger i begyndelsen af den økonomiske krise. En gruppe mennesker spille skak i Tenderloin-kvarteret i San Francisco. Foto: John...