Roadracing World (motorcycle racing magazine) has an e-mail from a soldier in Iraq on their website.
I did have a very rewarding experience, though. Each unit has $25K captured currency from the regime that we must use to do projects that will improve the community. The theory is a series of small victories will help us win over the people. So we provided supplies, AC’s, and other necessities to a school and two orphanages.
Sure sounds like someone is paying attention to ‘hearts and minds’.
Motorcycle road racing and world political news…how much better can it get?
Good ideas on the soldier’s part. By being directly involved like that they can establish a special bond with the people in that neighborhood. Building trust on the small scale may seem minor, but it actually provides some real faces for the Iraqis to associate American’s with. So when they think of American’s in the future, the faces of those soldiers comes to mind.
As an aside, MB would like to say that not all MC riders are thugs; MB & PB have been riding for 30 years, but we’ve yet to exhibit ANY thuggish tendencies.