THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, April 15, 2010
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VOLUME 19, NO. 15
THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010
COMPLIMENTARY
NOTES FROM AFGHANISTAN
by LtCol Michael Moffett
USMCR
Editor’s Note: Mike Mof-
fett is the Weirs Times sports correspondent and a professor at NHTI- Concord. His column “SPORTthoughts” has entertained our readers for years. Mike’s column has been on hiatus as he has been called to duty in Afghanistan. The fol- lowing is the first of his reports from the field.
DELARAM, AFGHANISTAN
- I was glad helmets were required when my head smashed against the roof in the back of the MRAP when we hit our first big off-road bump. The Mine- Resistant Ambush Pro-
tected vehicles in our Ma- rine Corps convoy were traveling cross-country to avoid the countless Im- provised Explosive De- vices (IEDs) that the Tali- ban had placed on roads throughout our areas of operations. Our headquarters ele-
ment of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, was en route to Company Com- bat Outpost Bakwa, west of Delaram, just north of Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. The next day would feature Operation Bakwa Rain, where re- inforced elements of Kilo Company, 3 /4, would conduct helicopter-borne assaults on suspected
See MOFFETT on 24
TAX DAY PROTESTERS GATHERING APRIL 15TH
Thursday, Apri l
LtCol Michael Moffett (right) with SSgt Stephen Comeau of Plaistow, N.H. in Delaram, Afghanistan, where I-Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines had established a position in town next to the District Governor’s compound.
15th, three ma- jor Tax Day TEA (Taxed Enough Al- ready) Parties are planned in Concord, Man- chester and Portsmouth. The s e a r e part of the hundreds of Tea Parties be- ing held across the country. Come out and
COURTESY PHOTO
let your voice be
See TEA on 30
Tom Thomson ready to “ax the tax” at last year’s tax day protest on the State House lawn.
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