The Catholic Priest

He curses, calls soldiers "dude" and "man", proudly admits to drinking heavily, looks about 30 years old, 85% bald, and sometimes forgets what he is saying mid-sentence. He is a Catholic Priest, Army Chaplain, and Army Officer - Captain to be exact. Not only is he a strange man, but he is actually interesting to listen to. If it were not for his "stories" that he manages to draw up mid-mass I would probably not have continued to go to his masses at random times on random days at our Combat Out Post (COP) here in Diyala Province.

A brief description of him might be called for here. He is about 6 foot tall, bald as I already mentioned, wears ACUs like you would expect an Army Officer to, weighs in around 240 or so and wears fairly thick glasses. One might actually take him seriously until he begins talking. I have been to 3-4 of his masses and he informed us (the 2-5 soldiers who attend) that it would be his last mass at our COP as he was redeploying to his home unit for a year before deploying again to spread his message of dudisms and drunken TRADOC adventures. I bet you could get some funny stories and moments out of a drunken Catholic Priest.