Families and Friends of the Vanguard Brigade It is still typical fall weather with high 40s/low 50s at night and in the low 70s during the day. The only change was the brief period of rain that resulted in instant mud, but we are already back to normal. As some of you may have heard this week, there were some large car bomb attacks in Iraq this past week and one of those attacks was in our area of operations. A suicide van loaded with explosives drove up to a security wall protecting a hotel and detonated. Another suicide vehicle...