Princeton ROTC Student Blogs From Iraq

This is how blogging is supposed to be. A great medium that allows those you'd never read to post thoughts and give insight into events from the inside.

Wesley Morgan is a sophomore at Princeton and was invited to Iraq by General Petraeus for a month to report as an embed and learn what military life is like in theater. He writes for the Daily Princetonian while in school.

At 0900, though, as I sat in the Union III hajji café having my breakfast (they make a very good white chocolate mocha) and reading Stars and Stripes, the squadron and brigade public affairs officers rushed up in a huff and told me to grab my armor and bags right away – there had been a change of plans and I had to be at the landing zone right away for transport to Camp Victory, where Petraeus and his staff are headquartered. I hurriedly armored up and grabbed my gear, filling up my CamelBak on the ride to the landing zone, where Lt. Col. Yoswa was waiting for me with a bit more of an explanation: “The CG is meeting with the attorney general this morning before the battlefield circ and he wants to introduce you, so let’s go!” Oh, of course – why wouldn’t the commanding general want a 19-year-old cadet at his classified briefing to Alberto Gonzales? I climbed into the lead bird, bucked up, and we were off.

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Cadet Morgan was sponsored on this trip by Bill Roggio and Public MultiMedia, Inc. You can donate to them and sustain this type of reporting by clicking here.