A little info for everyone if your interrested...

Dont thank me, Im just here for the paycheck... YEAH RIGHT! Nah, this is a job have to love! I drive HETS (big trucks) pictures at www.stahrenterprises.com and I really love what I do, and love the guys/girls who I work with. We deploy ALOT!! Luckily, I have a VERY supportive family to include 3 kids, Carson 11 (flys a Firebird Comander), Leslie 10 (has a elec. stadium truck) and Kameron 3 (drives the other 2 crazy). And of course my wonderful wife Kristy who is there alone, with the 3 kids, trying to keep her sanity. If you think I have it bad over here in Iraq, I wouldnt take her job for any amount of money!

My Heli radio from last year is at home. The helicopter didnt fare to well out here last year (we did a year here, 7 months at home and now we are back again for another year). Mainly due to sand and crashes. When you have 30-100 soldiers standing around watching you fly, someone always pipes up with "Hey why dont you try to (insert something insane here)..."

So, I decided to bring my GP Slinger this year. It was doing fine until one fateful day some schmuck turned on a device we call a "Warlock". Basically, it is a powerful electronic device some vehicles use for jamming etc... anyway, at the time this guy turned it on I was in the middle of some inverted playing at about 80 feet. The slinger instantly pile drived itself into the ground at full throttle. The radio and reciever (Hitec Flash TX and 555 RX) didnt take to kindly to the "Warlock" and are now, shall we say, Toasted. That is when I decided just to buy a Zagi Tazz. I had read about them a little. So I did some more research, and saw Gregs review and emailed him for more info. Well, things snowballed and now Greg is my new best freind that I have never met in person!

Anyway, I have about 10 guys in my platoon of 60 (300 in my company) who have been bugging me to teach them to fly. So, I figure I can fix the Slinger and use that as a "trainer" for them. As of right now, there is no one else in my platoon that has ever flown R/C. A lot of us have raced cars/trucks, but Im the only fly guy...so far. As soon as I can, I will be teaching them to fly. Even my LT wants to learn.

Anyway, thank you to everyone who is helping support this. All of us over here really appreciate it.