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Monday, September 6, 2010
Music: JFCOM Contractor Sings The ‘Jiffy Com Blues’ Over Closure
Boy, it sucks to hear about other contractors losing their jobs. Hopefully these folks will be able to get work elsewhere in the defense industry. Maybe Bobby will have his music as a possible back up plan? –Matt
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JFCOM contractor sings the blues over closure
By Bill Sizemore
09/06/2010
Went to work, got a bit of bad news
Went to work, got a bit of bad news
Ol’ Bobby G said here’s your fate, gonna shut you down, gonna lock the gate
Now we all have the Jiffy Com Blues.
– “Jiffy Com Blues,” by Bobby “BlackHat” Walters
It’s not even a done deal, but the impending closure of the Joint Forces Command already has made its way into Hampton Roads’ pop culture.
Bobby “BlackHat” Walters, a civilian contractor at JFCOM who moonlights as a blues musician, has channeled his angst into a song.
Less than three weeks after the planned closure was announced by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, “Jiffy Com Blues” has been written and recorded and is getting local radio airplay.
“It was a song that needed to be written. It wrote itself,” Walters, a Coast Guard retiree, said Friday. “Sometimes the blues can help you through a bad situation.”
“Jiffy Com” is a longstanding nickname for the command among workers – one that is frowned upon by the brass, Walters acknowledged. But he said he didn’t use it with mean-spirited intent.
“I thought that if I could write the song in such a way that it would bring a smile to people’s faces, it could put a lighter edge on a very sensitive subject,” he said.
Story here.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Kidnap And Ransom: Contractor From California Kidnapped In Iraq
I do not know who Issa works for, but I am sure it is one of the big companies that provide linguists to the DoD. It will be interesting to hear the official statement from the DoD on this one, and it sounds like they have been kind of hush about this. Also, if you follow the link below, they have some video on the whole thing.
Now what would really piss me off, is if the guys that captured Issa were any of the folks recently released from detention. Over the last year or so, Iraq has been releasing hundreds of League of the Righteous members, and it would not surprise me if the guys running this show were one of those clown shoe wearing jihadist dorks that have just gained their freedom.-Matt
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El Cajon man kidnapped in Iraq
Friday, February 5, 2010
Officials identified an El Cajon resident Friday who went missing in Iraq while working as a civilian contractor, just as video of the man was released by his alleged abductors.
Issa Salomi, 60, went missing on Jan. 23 in Baghdad. He was working with the U.S. Forces as a civilian employee, according to the Department of Defense.
A video found on an Iraqi web site Friday showed Salomi sitting in front of a flag with what appeared to be Arabic writing on it.
In the two-minute video, Salomi details demands from his abductors, including the punishment of employees of the Blackwater company, which is accused in crimes against Iraqi citizens.
A search and recovery effort was underway to find Salomi, the DOD said.
Story here.