Red Bull’s deployment haiku contest

Meanwhile, Chief Red Bull is holding a haiku contest. Here’s a sampling he sends along:

Eight deployments down

most surreal thing I’ve seen is

KAF’s TGIF

*****

This summer sandstorm

Couldn’t blind the first sergeant

To my day-old shave.

*****

A circling bird calls:

War on TV is phoned-in,

COIN-operated

*****

Where is the Kandak?

Alone at the command post.

Oh, it’s Thursday night!

*****

Sprint in a flight suit

Long tarmac, rip my crotch

Warm Iraq breezes

*****

Our trucks move like ducks

waddling between ponds and now

stuck in this wadi

*****

Silly pogue don’t know

Gunslingers don’t drink lattes

Macchiato sir?