The US Marine in Afganistan.....

[Teresa]

I got this from a friend...who got it from his friend.
May our troops stay strong and 'win".


The USMC in Afganistan.....

This provides a little insight into the modern Marine Corp fighting terrorists. This is from a Reconnaissance Marine currently in Afghanistan. He talks like a Marine in the field-and he is worthy of our thoughts and prayers as are all of our military deployed in some God-forsaken place.


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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 Pomir 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 them scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard.

The antidote tastes l ike 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 handheld, 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, 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.

I dream of bin Laden waking up t o find me standing over him with my boot on his throat as I spit a bloody ear into his face and plunge my nickel-plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me. I'm a romantic. I've said it before and Ill 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, rockpit, shithole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs.

Afghanistan offers 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 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 Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtins for over a month and a half now and this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of em, are Huns. Actual, living Huns. They LIVE to fight. Its what they do. Its ALL they do.

They have no respect for anything, not for their families or for each other or for themselves. 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. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each others barbarism. Cavemen with AK
47's. Then again, maybe I'm just cranky.

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, Bizarre. 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 and hyenas and wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless and, when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and destroy everything else. Smart. Pfffftttt. Yeah, they're real smart.

They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. They're still 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 media  news agencies is utter bullshit and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials.
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 because you have no idea what we're doing and, really, you don't want to know.
We are your military and we are doing what you sent us here to do.

You wanna help? Buy Bonds America .

Saucy Jack

Semper Fidelis

[pam]

[sixdogsmom]

We could not afford to buy new comic books so I inherited many of the gory war books that so appalled congress that they outlwed them in the 1950s. This reminds me of a redheaded soldier that was fighting in Korea. He was the subject of many comics and was so terribly crude. I loved it! LOL! Of course I support the troops, but this sounds like something made up. Sorry.

[pam]

Why do you think it's made up?

[sixdogsmom]

I cannot really say exactly why, Pam. It just doesn't ring true to me. Not that it could not be true, this just does not sound right.

[pam]

Sounds pretty realistic to me. They ain't havin a garden party over there y'know. from what I know of the Taliban it's pretty right on.

[W. Gray]

Apparently it has been around since 2001 and has made the rounds of a number of talk shows.

This site says it is false and gives a few words to support their contention.

The talk of buying bonds sounds really sounds out of date. I am not sure many young Americans, military or otherwise, know what a bond drive is.

But in the end, apparently no one really knows.

An uncensored version is at
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/freezing.asp

[Wilma]

Do any of you remember the bond drive song?  "Any bonds today, Any bonds today, Save up the most you can, Here comes the freedom man, Singing, Any bonds today"  This isn't quite right.  Bonnie, Jo, do you remember the words?

[Wilma]

Any bonds today?
Any bonds today?
Rake up the most you can
Here comes the freedom man
Asking you to buy a share of freedom today.

I remembered.  World War II bond rally song.

[Teresa]

I didn't know if it was true or not. I just received it from a friend who is a vet.. who has friends that are Marine vets also.
They have some ugly scenarios that they live with every single day and night..and days..and nights........................
He told me that he got it from one of them.. I figured it was old because of the bonds.. but I didn't really care.
I thought it was pretty good..and I imagine more close to right than I ever want to experience.
I feel pretty fortunate being here all snug in middle country cowtown Kansas America.. sleeping peacefully in my bed...while I know there is hideous things going on overseas.

I didn't question whether it is a true actual letter.... I think if it hits home to the heart and has a lesson of learning and awareness attached to ..then it was put in print for the good..

JMO..........