{"id":2427,"date":"2012-03-19T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:08:02","slug":"some-videos-from-iraq-in-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2012\/03\/some-videos-from-iraq-in-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Videos from Iraq in 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --><br \/>\n<g:plusone annotation=\"inline\"><\/g:plusone><\/p>\n<p><!-- Place this render call where appropriate --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n  (function() {\n    var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text\/javascript'; po.async = true;\n    po.src = 'https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/plusone.js';\n    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);\n  })();\n<\/script>I figured I would embed both of the videos I took in Iraq in 2004 on the site. \u00a0 I have included brief captions below each video. \u00a0 plus, I took them all personally, none of them are graphic and I don&#8217;t have and would not post any pictures of dead bodies. \u00a0 The videos are pretty bad quality because the camera I had in Iraq was a very basic 3 megapixel POS.  I will give it one thing though, it made it through the deployment where expensive cameras did not.  Tripod, one of the coolest dogs I ever met is below. \u00a0 How you can be so happy with only three legs I do not know, but his tail literally never stopped moving.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2428\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tripod-22-Sep-2004s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2428\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2428\" title=\"Digital Camera\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tripod-22-Sep-2004s-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tripod-22-Sep-2004s-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tripod-22-Sep-2004s-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tripod-22-Sep-2004s-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tripod-22-Sep-2004s.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tripod outside the Mess Hall on our FOB in Sep 2004.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sFbGgPWFXYw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe controlled detonation of an IED we found in the Ad-Dawr police Chief&#8217;s office in Dec 2004<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V4Zus3p5mNs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nControlled detonation of an IED on the main road road through town 22 Nov 04<\/p>\n<p>I have a whole bunch of pictures I took while deployed and if I get some interest I will post more with better descriptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured I would embed both of the videos I took in Iraq in 2004 on the site. \u00a0 I have included brief captions below each video. \u00a0 plus, I took them all personally, none of them are graphic and&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2012\/03\/some-videos-from-iraq-in-2004\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,60,1226],"tags":[488,487,485,486],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-military-culture","category-contemporary-wars","category-non-historical-asides","tag-488","tag-ied","tag-iraq","tag-video","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21188,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/21188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}