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Timberghozt
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You know the code then Jerry...When I was 19 I walked into a make shift PX that took a 3 hour ride on the back of a deuce to get to at the 3rd Armored Division main in southern Iraq..When I and three other Scouts made it through the wire the PFC letting us in remarked as we were about 10 feet inside to his buddy,"Murder Incorporated".
None of us gave a shit and kept walking hunting the big PX in the sky which was heaven to us..Copenhagen,Marlboros,batteries(not the Army issue shit), real Duracells that could run our big assed GPS Lorans, beef jerky and such.I spent about 500 bucks on cigarettes,Copenhagen,Batteries and pogey bait...We hadn`t had any real such things in 3 plus months, we hadn`t had more than a whore bath in a plastic tub we used the same water to wash our bdu`s in, a hot meal was a long forgotten memory, a shower was a thing to dream about...
I watched a movie about a Desert Storm Marine Scout called "Jarhead".. They were watching the super bowl,going to the rear for air conditioned billets.
I spent 5 and a half months up on the line and went forward three weeks before any other unit in my division did to reconnoiter along a 40 mile front with 116 other division scouts...It was two months after the ground war that I left the Iraqi border to travel through Kuwait back into Saudi Arabia...
Never seen that ball game....just a whole lot of misery and death...
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11th, 2009 02:05 AM |
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miestro_jerry
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Bro,
I spent 21 out and 7 in, with star light star bright looking for Chuck and reporting via a PRC 44 to the Huns and BUFF. The first time I saw a Hun come in on a run, you could read by the fire light. When BUFF unloaded, the ground moved.
Forget the Big PX, round eyed women!
We didn't loose that war, the politicians in DC surrendered.
Enough of the past, I may be seeing ghosts if we go with this.
Jerry
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11th, 2009 02:12 AM |
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Timberghozt
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best left to the field...
The ghosts don`t stop coming my friend.18 years later I still see them in my dreams...I imagine you know full well what I mean..
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11th, 2009 02:55 AM |
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So true Timberghozt, we had the same and had to do the same thing.
In Korea, we were out in the field at -10F with shelter-halves, old down sleeping bags and leather boots.
In Thailand, on forced marches with full combat gear in 100F w/80-100% humidity.
We do what we need to do and you have to be mentally and physically prepared.
The nicey sensitive military that Clinton introduced only gets Marines and Soldiers killed.
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