Middle East Tour, 2007-2008

Christmas in Bahrain. Just like Norman Rockwell envisioned.

With mosquito repellant in Djibouti. Keeps away malaria and mad cow disease.

Big shoes to fill in Djibouti.

Christmas in Djibouti, Africa. At least someone in this photo still has their dignity.

At The Grand Mosque in Bahrain. One car behind me is not facing Mecca.

A great sign inside the Bahrain mosque. If you have a

With Tom Foss, Robert Hawkins, and Jesse Joyce before taking a COD plane to USS Harry S Truman.

On board COD plane, looking like a bad ass.

The USS Harry S Truman has valet parking on ladies night.

On the USS Harry S Truman. I really only did it for the hat.

USS Truman hangar bay. It was one of these fighter jets that I plowed into while not paying attention.

Proof of plowing into a parked jet. Good thing chicks dig war wounds.

Driving the Winston Churchill. Notice the perfect 10-and-2 hand positioning.

On the Churchill looking rather Churchillian.

In Qatar. This is what George C. Scott would have looked like if

In the cockpit of a C-130, I was surrounded by some incredible technology. And a pencil sharpener.

I hear sunroofs are the new big fad in Baghdad. This is inside the Palace of the Iraqi Republican Guard, after the

With some members of the 101st Airborne from Fort Campbell, based near Nashville.

When you wear the 101st Airborne patch, you have to look a little badass.