Meet Specialist Philip Albright
Sep 29, 2022
“Fills” happened a lot in the Army Reserves during the time of the Iraq War. An Army unit is expected to have a certain number of personnel within its ranks in order to carry out their duties, and when some Reserve units got mobilized they didn’t have enough people to fill those ranks. So Reservists from other parts of the country were sent to “fill” the empty slots.
In BOHICA Blues, the unit being mobilized is the fictitious “213th Engineer Battalion” in Boise. Now, they’ll get “fills” sent tot hem from around the country, so there’ll be soldiers from Pennsylvania, New Mexico, California, and so on.
In the real world, there was a unit in Pennsylvania that was mobilized, and I was sent as a “fill” to that unit. For the comic, I turn this around.
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What's it like to be in the Army for real, and get deployed to a place like the Iraq War? In BOHICA Blues, I turn my actual experiences into a slice of absurdist humor and walk you through this period of history from one person's perspective.
Using the classic TV show "M*A*S*H" as a guide, I created BOHICA Blues in 2013 to tell the story of what a deployment was like, with the absurdities of military life and war for all to see. It starts with the initial mobilization news, and goes on from there. BOHICA Blues isn't as "salty" as a lot of veteran humor; it doesn't have F-bombs, gore, or nudity: it could hypothetically appear on regular broadcast television.
Hopefully you can enjoy this and invite others to see what the Iraq War was like from someone who went there and is willing to share the experience with a laugh.
Updates every weekday at 2:00 pm US Pacific Time.
Using the classic TV show "M*A*S*H" as a guide, I created BOHICA Blues in 2013 to tell the story of what a deployment was like, with the absurdities of military life and war for all to see. It starts with the initial mobilization news, and goes on from there. BOHICA Blues isn't as "salty" as a lot of veteran humor; it doesn't have F-bombs, gore, or nudity: it could hypothetically appear on regular broadcast television.
Hopefully you can enjoy this and invite others to see what the Iraq War was like from someone who went there and is willing to share the experience with a laugh.
Updates every weekday at 2:00 pm US Pacific Time.
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