NICE SANDY BEACH, BUT WHERE IN THE HECK IS THE OCEAN?

“You should have seen it,” said Sgt. Troy Wood, 35, a member of the Idaho Army National Guard who volunteered to deploy to Iraq with the Oregon Guard, which brought 14 boats to Iraq. “We were toting these boats clear across a desert. It was the funniest thing.”

Read this neat story about Guard Guys doing boat patrols in the Tigris River.