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Old 04-07-2016, 10:41 AM
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Insightful read

From a Recon Marine in Afghanistan In the Sand
Pit.

It's freezing here. I'm sitting on hard cold dirt
between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu
Kush Mountains, along the Dar'yoi Pamir River,
watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads
to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza
delivery for thousands of miles.

I also glance at the area around my ass every ten
to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion
sting. I've actually given up battling the
chiggers and sand fleas, but the scorpions give a
jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard.
The antidote tastes like transmission fluid, but
God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of
it in my pack.

The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that,
believe it or not, they are human beings, which
means they have to eat food and drink water. That
requires couriers and that's where an old bounty
hunter like me comes in handy. I track the
couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage
facilities, type the info into the hand held, and
shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link
that tells the air commanders where to drop the
hardware. We bash some heads for a while, and
then I track and record the new movement. It's
all about intelligence. We haven't even brought
in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no
idea what they're in for. We are but days away
from cutting off supply lines and allowing the
eradication to begin. But you know me; I'm a
romantic.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: This
country blows, man. It's not even a country.
There are no roads, there's no infrastructure,
there's no government. This is an inhospitable,
rock-pit shit-hole ruled by eleventh century
warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we
know jobs. Afghanistan offers only two ways for a
man to support his family, join the opium trade or
join the army. That's it. Those are your
options.

Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp
and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and
squirt mud from your backside like a goose with
stomach flu, if that's your idea of a party. But
the smell alone of those 'tent cities of the
walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy
fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen
hours a day.

I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks, and
Turkmenand even a couple of Pashtu's, for over a
month-and-a-half now, and this much I can say for
sure: These guys are Huns;actual, living Huns.
They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It'sALL
they do.

They have no respect for anything; not for
themselves, their families, or for each other.
They claw at one another as a way of life. They
play polo with dead calves and force their
five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend
the family honor. Just Huns. Roaming packs of
savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's
barbarism. Cavemen with AK-47's. Then again,
maybe I'm just a cranky young bastard.

I'm freezing my ass off on this stupid hill
because my lap warmer is running out of juice, and
I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a
few hours.

Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me
a favor... Write a letter to CNN and tell Wolf and
Anderson and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron
Brown to stop calling the Taliban "smart". They
are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a
dictionary because the word they are looking for
is "cunning". The Taliban are cunning, like
jackals, hyenas, and wolverines. They are sneaky
and ruthless, and when confronted, they are
cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites
who create nothing and destroy everything else.

Smart? Bullshit! Yeah, they're real smart, Most
can't read, but they've spent their entire lives
listening to Imams telling them about only one
book (and not a very good one, as books go). They
consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be
products of the devil. They're still trying to
figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Talking
to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality
of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold
a pen. Eventually he just gets frustrated and
sticks you in the eye with it.

OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon, so I have to
get back to my hole. Covering my tracks in the
snow takes a lot of practice, but I'm good at it.

Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn
off the TV sets and move on with your lives. The
story line you are getting from CNN and other news
agencies is utter bullshit and designed not to
deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the
screen so you will watch the next commercial.

We've got this one under control. The worst thing
you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing
what we're doing over here. You have no idea what
we're doing, and you really don't want to know.
We are your military, and we are only doing what
you sent us here to do.

From a Jack Recon Marine in Afghanistan, Semper
Fi.
"Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps is
paying most of your share".
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Old 04-07-2016, 11:24 AM
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Truth, we have to get over hurting "innocents my ass" put the hurt on these "people" until they decide to get a clue and respect the rest of the world.

News media is playing on the heartstrings of people (?) back here who have never fought and have no clue what we are protecting with our blood in far away lands.

I think Europe is starting to wake up to the fact they have been importing jackals into their homes thinking they can turn them into loving grateful lap dogs...
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Old 04-07-2016, 11:32 AM
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What a great read.
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Truth, we have to get over hurting "innocents my ass" put the hurt on these "people" until they decide to get a clue and respect the rest of the world.

News media is playing on the heartstrings of people (?) back here who have never fought and have no clue what we are protecting with our blood in far away lands.

I think Europe is starting to wake up to the fact they have been importing jackals into their homes thinking they can turn them into loving grateful lap dogs...
Yup--straight up for sure.
Your point on Europe--its my opinion that our greatest hope IS Europe.
Why?
Because its gonna get real bad over there and that is gonna wake up America...I hope.
The only way true "hope and change" is gonna happen, is Americans getting spitting mad, road rage, going postal pissed off.
Even then--there are already more than enough here to cause a whole shit ton of pain.
Our so called leaders have and continue to betray the citizenry in the most onerous way possible. They have left open the gate and the wolves have entered. Choose your metaphor.
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Great read. Thanks for posting it.
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Great read, thanks for posting. My youngest is headed that way the end of May, to do almost exactly what that author was doing.
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USMC? Going to mountain warfare training in CA? Just up the road from here.

Praying for his and their safe return.
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Army Special Forces: SOT-A, signals intelligence. Lots of "outside the wire" work. Your prayers are greatly appreciated!!
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I hope and pray your lad comes home unscathed.
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