Ozzy Osborne and Mortar Fire

The footage for this was shot by one of the videographers from division, but i was asked to make a short music video to put on our Brigade's Facebook page. This is what I came up with.

World Famous (to the military media anyways) SFC JD Phippen

This how that last video appeared on the Pentagon Channel. It was pretty cool, from a broadcaster perspective, to see some of my stuff "out there".

Joint Operation

I went on this operation the other day. It was nothing major, but a few weeks ago some people were kidnapped and executed near here. This was an information gathering patrol as much as anything. I will post some still photgraphs in the next day or so.

The Most Recent Production

The video footage for this was shot while I was home on leave. But I was asked to put this video together. I edited the footage and added the music and voiceover. Enjoy.

Patches

The three of us from Iowa that are here at FOB Warhorse. This pose was after I gave PV2 Zuber and PFC Muehe their "combat patch". I got mine last week before i went to the other FOB. Typically, a soldier will wera only a patch on their left shoulder. But a soldier that has deployed to a combat zone, will also wear one on their right shoulder. The usually wear the patch of the unit that they served with. We are serving with a brigade from the 2nd Infantry Division. The patch is the 2ID patch. It is one of the more recognized patches, also one of the most decorated. From what I read, there have been 24+ recipients of the Medal of Honor from this division.

This is a photo fo the weapons that they found on the air assault mission. I was lucky that the only stuff that was found was in the objective that I was in. That way, I got to include that stuff as part of my video story.



This was just a dwelling that was in the area. Nothing special about it, just a picture to show what some people live in if not in a bigger town.


Just a random donkey hangin' out and looking bored.

Operation Tomahawk Condor

There is 10 seconds of black video before this starts. This is the air assault mission that I went on. It was actually kind of fun to play infantry for a day. We jumped (not literally)off the Chinooks and went to work. Well, the Iraqis did. US forces followed close behind and I videotaped stuff. I had one other interview with an Iraqi company commander, but it was really windy and the audio quality was poor. There were no shots fired at all and everyone returned to base safely. US forces did have mortars trained on targets in the area just in case the "you know what" hit the fan.