Patrick Broyles

@36b802f7quj05Robin:
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. The internet & communications over here are not the best in the world. I’m currently at FOB Endeavor which has less than 100 soldiers here so we use satellite rather than military communications.
I too will miss the SAIGE meeting this year but by hook or crook will make it next…[Read more]

@36b802f7quj05Robin:
Glad that you remembered SAIGE. I hope you make another meeting this June in San Diego.
PAT

@34e5306oz3bseLucie:
Yeah, reckon to some I do have a different background. But then I’m always looking for something different to do & expland my horizons.
Well, didn’t really believe that everyone in New Zealand actually had blood relationships with everyone else but in a few counties out West I have worked in unless your great grandfather was…[Read more]

@0bechs7gb8087Michelle:
Thanks for the comment. I actually did see one of “camel” spiders, it was crawling up the side of an MRAP, but it was only about a quarter inch long, so I can’t make up a good story about that.
Yes, I have enjoyed my time in Iraq. It’s definintely unlike anything which I have done before. The Spartan lifestyle gets a tad…[Read more]

@34e5306oz3bseLucie:
I reckon you all would call me a “Yank” since I’m an American. However, “Yankee” has a different conotation in the USA. They lived in the New England states along the NE seaboard and many of us don’t like to be called “Yankee”, probably has to do with the American Civil War, or as I was taught it, “The War of Northern…[Read more]

@3d7kxb3n1hfy1Thanks for responding. Looks like your grandmother had a career to be very proud of. Those who work and get little of the recognition are the reason the Federal government functions. Those whose face is on the news and love titles tend to do it more for self gratification than to actually accomplish something in their lives.

@0bechs7gb8087Thanks for responding. I’m not familiar with the name Norman Taylor, he must have been in the government even before I was. I’m in a similair position as he probably was. We are working with the Iraqi farmers to bring them up to date, or at least get them moving in the right direction. In the 60s & 70s Iraq was a huge exporter of…[Read more]

@3d7kxb3n1hfy1Glad to see that your family’s history has importance to you and to your views on life. I imagine she worked so long because she enjoyed the job and/or the people she worked with. I also bet she wasn’t nearly as politically correct as it appears 99% of the people on this forum are.

@34e5306oz3bseSo…are you a Kiwi or a Yank?

@0bechs7gb8087At last, an honest person. Liked what you wrote about why you work for the government.
Ah, come on, surely you have a favorite public servant? Mine is dead but at least his name was not the politically correct “Obama” which seems to be on most of the answers.

@3iaf2np5bibcxAs a Vietnam veteran I recognize the photos and have always wanted to go there. How do I get there?

@1vsv0v3pn7xvdSounds like it could be interesting work. We are striving at our amateurish attempts to put together a market survey on what rural Iraqi farmers as well as large wholese dealers want in a produce market. If we didn’t keep tripping over our own feet maybe we’d get somewhere.

@amybroylesWell, with your last name I just had to investigate. My father’s family comes from the Ohio side of the river.

@223grng6uf55dOK, I can see you have a chin, mouth, teeth, lips & a nose. Now the real question is, do you have 2 eyes?