Female Air Force Captain Blogs for Glamour

Posted on March 8, 2007

Glamour has launched a new blog called Captain KJ: Adventures in Baghdad. This blog is written by Captain Kjirstin Bentson, a female Air Force captain currently stationed in Baghdad. Captain KJ will keep readers informed on what life is like in Baghdad and tell us how badly she misses the things us not stationed Iraq take for granted -- like wearing jeans. In this post Captain KJ describes what nights have recently been like in the International Zone in Baghdad.

However, on a day-to-day basis for those of us here in the International Zone in the middle of Baghdad, this has meant that our nights are filled with explosions and gunfire and lots and lots of helicopters flying overhead. It really seems, at times, as if they're flying in circles around our trailers, just to see how many of us they can wake up! (However, as one of my friends pointed out, at least you know that you've got someone keeping you safe this way.)

I'm usually in the office until 9 or 10 p.m., so I miss the lightshows that my friends have been telling me about--all those explosions have a visual aspect, apparently. But in terms of the noise of it all, it's kind of like sleeping through the 4th of July or New Year's Eve for weeks on end! (Or trying to sleep through it...)

Eat the Press says Captain KJ is no blogging newbie -- she ran a blog on WordPress before being hired by Glamour. This blog is far more important and the subject matter is much more interesting than another blog Glamour launched last August called See Alyssa Date. It really isn't fair of us to compare the two because they cover two different worlds. Alyssa appears to still be dating by the way.