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| Iraq-Jordan |
| Email, Pictures from US Troops in Iraq |
| 2004-07-06 |
| A soldier in Iraq sent Zack at Something Awful some email and a CD with pics. From the email: When we first got here, everything went to shit at warp speed. Our platoon was chopped up for different missions, despite vociferous protests by our leadership. Over half the platoon was taken to run the detention facility here. Our HUMINT element was split into teams, and they run constant, nerve-wracking missions all over our AO with minimal security. Barely enough of us were left to do our SIGINT mission, which was nearly scrubbed altogether due to the lack of productivity by our predecessors. We were nearly sent along with the rest to run the jail, but we managed to raise enough of a ruckus to keep just enough troops to remain mission capable. I’m a little worried about that part about troops being taken out of action to run the jail. Seems to me they could find others that would do that better. [Insert Abu Ghraib joke here.] Most of the rest of the email’s more upbeat. Interesting pics include: Captured loot, oil fires, snow, the mighty Euphrates, Commie armor, a certificate of loyalty to Saddam, and Qusay’s Jag. Via Tim Blair. |
| Posted by:Angie Schultz |
| #3 Fracturing a Company is crazy, fracturing a platoon is suicidal. I may have to read the article. :) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-06 3:50:07 PM |
| #2 The explosions video is pretty cool! |
| Posted by: spiffo 2004-07-06 2:46:18 PM |
| #1 Off topic: While at SA, be sure to click the Cliff Yablonski link on the left, some seriously funny stuff. |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2004-07-06 1:21:37 PM |