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2004-08-06 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Mercutio 2004-08-06 4:57:17 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wow, that was something else.

Forgive the soldier's lack of paragraphs, typos and homonym errors. He's got more important things to worry about.

Keep your head down, and keep killing jihadis, soldier.

Posted by Parabellum 2004-08-06 6:57:29 PM|| 2004-08-06 6:57:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 What the f*** is going on in Mosul?

Posted by virginian 2004-08-06 7:41:21 PM|| 2004-08-06 7:41:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Fantastic!

Once we got to the FOB, and parked near the motor pool to re-supply, a Sgt ran up to us holding all his gear and his kit and asked, "Hey you guys rolling back out? Do you have room for one more?" This guy who asked us if he could ride with us back out, was in that vehicle that was right in front of us earlier that got RPG'd. They had to drive back to the FOB and the LT was seriously hurt. And now he was now asking us if he could come with, to go give em some more hell.

Posted by Wuzzalib 2004-08-06 7:48:11 PM|| 2004-08-06 7:48:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Now that's what you call going 'Balls to the Walls'.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-08-06 7:51:35 PM|| 2004-08-06 7:51:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Gentlemen, if you have never been there - this guys is in what we used to call "the shit". And being scared, angry, tired, wired and wierded out all at the same time is about what its like. The sights, and sounds - and for me, the smells... this brave kid will remember them when he's 40 as if they happened just yesterday. And other days, it will seem like someone else's life and a million years ago.

And he has it right - you just keep going back out, "because you have to". Something inside says to, not someone outside making you go. "Get Some" - glad to see they still use that one.

God help this young man and bring him and his buds home safe and sound, by way of a victory.

And to anyone who disparges him, like Michael Moore, you'd best not talk down to me of guys like him when you are around.

Posted by Oldspook 2004-08-06 7:55:33 PM|| 2004-08-06 7:55:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I hear ya, Old Spook!
This account was stunning...being a peacetime "girl" and all.
God Bless these "grunts" and keep them safe and bring them home safe, sound and victorious.
Sounds like the enemy has regrouped and is giving the jihad a last push, but why can't they figure out those black clothes make them that much easier to put in the cross hairs?
There's a career in either writing and/or films for this young man--can he express himself and describe action OR WHAT?!

Posted by GreatestJeneration 2004-08-06 7:59:51 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-08-06 7:59:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Be sure to go to the Blog home page--there is a follow-up to the fight there.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-08-06 8:20:34 PM|| 2004-08-06 8:20:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Interesting that he uses Picasso's "Guernica" for his artwork, which depicts the Luftwaffe's "dry run" bombing of a Spanish village in 1936, practicing for Hitler's invasion of Poland 3 years later.
Picasso was a member of the Communist Party and never returned to Franco's Spain after the fascists won the Spanish Civil War.
The painting has become an icon of the anti-war crowd.
Being from San Francisco and with his affinity for Hunter S. Thompson, wonder why this grunt's in a volunteer army if he's such an apparent peacenik?

Posted by GreatestJeneration 2004-08-06 8:34:46 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-08-06 8:34:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 from the followup:

What's up with the all black wardrobe anyway? Are these guys like Goth Terrorists or something?

hilarious!

Posted by spiffo 2004-08-06 8:36:27 PM|| 2004-08-06 8:36:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 spiffo, I think the idea is to look like ninja or assassins, but realistically, who cares? Seeing any discernable uniform on teh enemy must be a welcome change for our boys.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-07 2:47:19 AM|| 2004-08-07 2:47:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 He seems like a good kid. He will have some interesting stories for his class reunion. I wonder if he actually listens to the Smiths or just likes the Meat is Murder albun cover.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-07 2:55:39 AM|| 2004-08-07 2:55:39 AM|| Front Page Top

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