Marshall Adame
He worked in the Kuwait recovery of 1992-93 and was the senior aviation logistics manager for Kaman Aerospace in their Egypt US Government Aviation assistance programs from 1998 through 2002.
Marshall arrived in Iraq in 2003 where he was the Coalition Provincial Authority Airport Director for Basrah International Airport,
He was later VP for Aviation development in Iraq with an International commercial company.
Marshall received a U.S. State Department (DoS) Diplomatic appointment in 2005 and was assigned as a US Advisor for logistics to the Iraqi Ministry of Interior.
As a State Department Official he later joined the DoS Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) where he served on staff of the National Coordination Team (NCT) in the Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. (Logistics, City planning, Governance Capacity Building, Government Liaison).
Marshall is now a DRS-TSI Program Manager of a large DoD project.
Marshall, 57, and his wife Becky (Formerly Becky Ortiz), a 3rd grade teacher, have been married for 39 years and have four children, Paul, Veronica, William and Benjamin, and twelve grandchildren.
William and Benjamin Adame have served in Iraq. William was wounded in action on July 2nd 2006. Benjamin returned from his second 15 month tour in Iraq in october 2008.
Marshall and Becky reside in Jacksonville North Carolina
marshall_adame@yahoo.com
Articles by Marshall Adame
June 10, 2009
The young couple sat directly across from me on the train. I was riveted.
June 05, 2009
The Human Mind Is Such a marvel and mystery
June 05, 2009
I really loved my 1971 Opel GT and I guess God loves my Opel too....and me.
May 22, 2009
Although in my life, I have not cured a disease, invented something which would revolutionize modern man, or stopped hunger in the world, it is important to me that my decedents know I cared.
May 22, 2009
Bradley Beach is really a summer place, but it has some very interesting former residents who still live in the Benches of Bradley Beach.
October 10, 2008
We had, through the election of President G.W. Bush, set a course for U.S. policy that would take America into a desert where many of the things we embraced and held dear, as a people, were about to be turned upside down and, in some cases, forever taken from us, plowed asunder the ground we called liberty. Things like our concept of freedom, governments subordinate position to its citizens, basic rights and freedoms that we had always, until George Bush, considered "Inalienable" as stated in our country´s constitution; the sacred document that defines who we are to each other and to the world.
October 06, 2008
A true story about 2 young boys in 1965, over one thousand miles, about 30 people and a hard lesson learned about the dark side of human nature.
"To this day I do not understand how I actually lived through this one week in my life".
Marshall Adame
September 03, 2008
Separating religion from ones politics is probably impossible. I have never heard an objective discussion of politics from a deeply religious person, nor have I from a person religiously atheistic.
August 16, 2008
"Most simply do not understand the nature and condition of Down Syndrome, or Autistic people"
August 01, 2008
The benches of Ocean Grove, New Jersey are a great memorial to people who were well thought of in life and fondly remembered in death as great and wonderful human beings.
July 27, 2008
America is not a "language". America is it's people.
July 07, 2008
Almost eighteen years later.... Prieta decided to go home.
April 08, 2008
North Carolina Democratic Candidate Reaches Out
November 08, 2007
American public opinion regarding the state of the nation today, depending on who you are talking to, can range from “Could be better”, to “In dire straits”, or “On the brink of tyranny”. In any case, it is not usually good. What ever the case, there are plenty of reasons for the doom and gloom. Tak...
October 24, 2007
Rendition, Blackwater, Katrina, Torture, Guantanamo, Iraq, Abu-Ghraib, Uncontrollable debt, suspension of Habeas Corpus, etc.
What has become of American government? What has become of us?
Politics in America has always been a “them” and “Us” sort of event. We have so many different outlooks an...
October 09, 2007
I live in a three bedroom house in North Carolina. Nothing fancy, just a modest two thousand square foot house on a corner lot in a nice neighborhood. Our house has a large front room with a vaulted ceiling. We have two bathrooms which were remodeled a few years ago and a very nice “Americana Styled...
August 22, 2007
If you were Iraqi; what would you do? Really…… What would you do?
(Private security contractor behavior in Iraq is detrimental and unacceptable)
U.S. Officials traveling all over Iraq, via ground transportation, are always transported and escorted by either U.S. Army soldiers, or Private securit...
July 27, 2007
Where is the Iraq Oil dollars?
Who is spending it? Who is hording it? What’s the deal with the Iraq Dinar?
The U.S. Department of the Treasury personnel in Iraq, for all practical purposes designed, engineered, printed, distributed to the Iraqi population and set the value of the Iraqi Dinar in...
July 21, 2007
The new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad must be deaf, dumb and blind. He ran the United States Embassy in Iraq for two years and never noticed the U.N. was there the whole time? Now he is announcing that the U.S. welcomes the presence of the...
July 20, 2007
America’s Federal Government has plenty of armed / intelligence agencies today.
National Intelligence Agency (NIA)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
The Treasury’s United States Sec...
July 15, 2007
Today Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shrugged off U.S. doubts of his government's military and political progress on Saturday, saying Iraqi forces are capable and American troops can leave "any time they want." The Gulf between Iraq’s Government and its American steering committee, headed by...
June 25, 2007
The Political Reformation Coming to America; Post G.W. Bush
Reformation is a new morning, an improvement, a renovation or, restoration. I believe that America is on the verge of just such a new morning, a reformation. I admit to being an optimist, but I am also gro...
June 07, 2007
1. Suspend the Patriot Act and Detainee Bill for Congressional review.
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. “For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it i...
May 31, 2007
Go to just about any significant meeting between Iraqi Government and US government officials in Iraq and you will quickly understand who is running the Diplomatic efforts in Iraq. The US Military.
Ask any Iraqi government official in Baghdad, or in any of the 18 provinces, who they are primarily c...
May 23, 2007
Six Things that trouble me:
1. I am sorry that that Republicans and many Democrats venerate their party more than their country. Blind faith in any political, or government system is rarely healthy.
2. It appears that President Bush and the Republican Politicians have almost succeeded in convinc...
May 16, 2007
In 2003, immediately after our invasion of Iraq, American contractors began pouring in to the country.
Taking advantage of Paul Bremer’s order, which effectively dissolved all of the civil institutions and Iraq, the contractors seized buildings and property formally owned by the Iraqi government. ...
May 13, 2007
Why America went into Iraq is something for the pundits, academics and the politicians to discuss into the next century. What has happened there since our arrival is something I can only hope will be fully realized and understood by the American public and every elected official in our country.
...
May 08, 2007
I have always been a Democrat. If my definition of the word Democrat were in the dictionary, it would simply say “The People”.
I remember being in my 5th grade class at Sunset Elementary school in La Puente California when, one day in 1963, our School Principal, Mr. Hackleman, came into the room....
April 29, 2007
The Associated press reported today that President Bush warned Congress Friday that he will continue vetoing war spending bills as long as they contain a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.
The President made clear that if Democrats insist on including timetables again, he...
April 26, 2007
Republicans will Stoop to Any Depth, and even Sacrifice the Dignity of the Congress To Get What They want.
Yesterday the U.S. House passed the long awaited Iraq Emergency Supplemental Bill.
It’s passage puts the bill on the road to the Presidents desk in just a few days.
Now that the democr...
April 17, 2007
Will the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech become the new rallying cry for gun control? Will the second amendment now be on trial? I hope not.
Usually when I write a post it is long and probably a little much, but this time I would like to get right to the point.
Last week I wrote an article a...
April 10, 2007
How Republicans, conservative & liberal Democrats can help reduce the Number of Abortions in America by supporting John Edwards for President.
“Our respect, in society, for Rule of Law, is what gives the U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights true validation and power”
Marshall Adame
The abortio...
April 03, 2007
If I had to use one word to describe my three year experience in Iraq, one word which could say how I feel without discounting or dismissing the good things I personally saw and experienced, that word would be DISHEARTENING.
Unlike many Americans in Iraq, my experiences there brought me close u...
March 29, 2007
A terrible thing happened yesterday in Iraq. 63 people, human beings, were killed by Iraqi police assisted by militiamen. According to the Washington Post, the police began roaming Sunni neighborhoods in the city, shooting at residents and homes. The Iraqi Army had to come in to stop the attacks. ...
March 20, 2007
Four Years Ago I arrived in Iraq. I left Three Years Later, Different
Today, March 19, 2007, marks the 4th anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq.
Two months from now four years ago I was driving across the Southern border of Iraq on my way to assume the position as the CPA Airport Director...
March 19, 2007
John Edwards should carefully pick his Vice President and talk about it early
John Edwards, in his campaign for the Presidency has been on a rising scale from the time he announced a few months ago. His methodical rise in the polls is no accident. America is beginning to know him and are growing ...
March 17, 2007
1.In the United States Embassy in Iraq there are a couple of hundred Iraqi workers. They are badged and vetted. No hostile incident has ever occurred in the US Embassy executed by an Iraqi employee of the U.S. Embassy. In fact, the Iraqis working for and in the US Embassy have turned out to be great...
March 12, 2007
Being Brave is something that most of the worlds population are doing just about everyday of their lives. Some to a greater degree than others, but then, bravery is a big word with lots of room.
When I was in Iraq, in 2003, as the CPA Airport Director of Basrah International Airport there were ab...
March 06, 2007
Just about anyone who has lived in North Carolina for any length of time is aware of the existence of the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County NC. They are an indigenous tribe with a centuries long, proud, well documented history in North Carolina. A visit to the Smithsonian Museum will educate any inte...
February 26, 2007
I believe in the Constitution, The Bill of Rights and the resilience of liberty and freedom in America. Short of a world wide catastrophic event, not relative to one country warring against another, the Bill of Rights should never be suspended or made ineffective through legal redefining or amendmen...
February 13, 2007
The clamor for the White House is on. Clinton, Bush, Kerry, Obama, Gore, McCain and a fountain of other well known Washington insiders, steeped in years of cozy relationships, cloak and dagger histories of deal making and inside political trading, not focused on Americas well being, but aimed and p...
February 09, 2007
The modern development and operations of the Iraqi airport system is vital to Iraq’s revitalization and economic growth. Rapid reestablishment of commercial and private transportation hubs in Iraq is vital to its quick and full recovery.
In 2003, the US military, realizing the Baghdad Airports i...
February 01, 2007
In a recent water cooler discussion about Iraq, I suggested that America needs to remove the primary combat forces from Iraq and concentrate on training, government capacity building and providing logistical support and material capacity to the Iraqi Provincial Governments and certain commercial ent...
January 18, 2007
The US plan for Iraq did not, until very recently, put any great emphasis on establishing, or reinstating the Rule of Law in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussain, particularly in Baghdad, the capitol city of Iraq. For almost four years a sense of anarchy has reigned in Iraq. Bush administration pol...
January 18, 2007
U.S. Military Controls diplomacy in Iraq while the U.S. State Department stands on the Diplomatic sidelines
By Marshall Adame
Go to just about any significant meeting between Iraqi Government and US government officials in Iraq and you will quickly understand who is running the Diplomatic effort...
December 14, 2006
On December 9th 2006 Iraqi President Jalal Talabani severely criticized the recently released bipartisan report on Iraq. President Talabani said the report "is not fair, is not just, and it contains some very dangerous articles which undermine the sovereignty of Iraq and the constitution."
Of cou...
September 08, 2006
In 2003 the US lead Coalition came into Iraq to liberate the Iraqi people, capture and destroy the confirmed weapons of mass destruction, including possible nuclear capability, and overthrow a brutal tyrant who brutalized his people, led genocide in his own country and invaded his neighbor.
In 2...
August 27, 2006
When I arrived in Iraq in mid 2003 as the newly appointed Coalition Airport Director for Basrah International Airport I was sure that what we, the US led coalition, had just done by invading Iraq, was a good thing. I likened our arrival in Iraq to the rescuing of people in a burning building. It was...