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This young man is articulate and has a flare for
colorful language, and descriptive prose....Scorpions, Chiggers & Sand
Fleas/great letter, must read!
From a Recon Marine in
Afghanistan
From 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 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 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 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. 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 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 Pushtuns, 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. It's what they do. It's ALL they do. They have no
respect for anything, not for their families, nor for each other, nor 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
other's 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. Pfft. 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 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.
Saucy Jack Recon Marine in Afghanistan Semper Fi
"Freedom is not free...but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share".
Send this to YOUR FRIENDS so that people here will really know what is going on
over there
http://m.sodahead.com/united-states...lly-going-on-in-afghanistan/question-3574511/
colorful language, and descriptive prose....Scorpions, Chiggers & Sand
Fleas/great letter, must read!
From a Recon Marine in
Afghanistan
From 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 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 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 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. 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 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 Pushtuns, 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. It's what they do. It's ALL they do. They have no
respect for anything, not for their families, nor for each other, nor 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
other's 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. Pfft. 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 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.
Saucy Jack Recon Marine in Afghanistan Semper Fi
"Freedom is not free...but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share".
Send this to YOUR FRIENDS so that people here will really know what is going on
over there
http://m.sodahead.com/united-states...lly-going-on-in-afghanistan/question-3574511/
