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Okla-homey
2/17/2007, 08:58 PM
Language is kinda salty, but folks need to read it and understand the message. This is not what you get thru the biased media filter, which has been my biggest problem with their reporting on things. This is stuff from a guy at the tip of the spear and its unvarnished.

To put it mildly, "Nonbinding resolutioners" can kiss my big white Okie buttocks.

BTW, the "Bats" (VMFA 242) fly 2 seat FA-18s. They are being replaced in Iraq by VMFA 121 flying the same type jets.


JB,

Finally went over 3,000 in the Hornet and 400th combat mission. The fellas from 121 started showing up the other day. It's starting to sink in....... I'll have to go home, the opportunities to kill these ****ers is rapidly coming to an end. Like a hobby I'll never get to practice again. It's not a great war, but its the only one we've got. God, I do love killing these bastards.

Well, the government in Baghdad has been telling the Shii that the Americans are coming big, look the **** out.... So, the bad guys have begun moving out of the city. Business is beginning to pick back up for us. I think the Iranians are going to pick things up to help give CNN some ammunition to show the buildup is a failed idea.

The other day, "Puddy" Shoop got 3 nice passes with the gun and rockets on some Muj in a little town called Karma, which is just Northwest of Fallujah. I firmly believe they are implants from the "big city." Looked as though they were in the process of trying to attack the Iraqi Police headquarters. I wonder why the insurgents would be attacking the Iraqi Police . . . CNN says the IP are ineffective. Funny, the "ineffective" IP stood their ground and called in 3 strikes. Only 1 confirmed kill.

Had a great 5" rocket attack last week. 5 Muj emplacing an IED.... rockets can be like a box of chocolates sometimes.... You never know what you're gonna get. Allah was with these jack asses, as the rockets hit all around them. These ****ers get up, brush themselves off and take off hobbling across a farm field. The ground commander never expects survivors, so it takes them a while to coordinate a follow on attack. In the mean time, the idiots stay together in a pack, carrying their parts through a small palm grove. Ground commander finally gets his act together and clears a follow on gun run to finish them off. Roll in and just as pilot is about to go "hammer down," a herd of sheep and family members appear at the top of the pod video and the run is aborted. Went home thinking they had gotten away.... Some pipe bustin' Fellas from the QRF (Quick Reaction Force) rolled up on the farmers and apprehended all of them, along with their bomb making materials. They said the Muj tried to say their HE burns were from a tractor rolling over or some @#%$. As an aside, you will never be shown the aborted attack, which saved at least 5 unarmed family members and their livelihood......

I hope they show a before and after picture of Baghdad. I think you will be quite surprised at the effort. An order of magnitude more than anything they have ever seen before. Should be interesting to watch. I'd really like to stick around and see how the extra *** effects the ops in some of the more obscure areas.

As we prepare to get out of here, I have to think back to what this place was like when I was leaving 2 years ago...... The convoys would be attacked by small arms fire every night... All night long. Today, we rarely ever see a convoy attacked by small arms fire. When the Marines take any fire, they turn and attack, so the Muj have determined its not a money play and stopped (besides, killing a KBR worker won't make it to CNN back in the states). I used to spend most of my on station time investigating Mortar and
Rocket points on origin from counter battery radar hits. I think I've received about 6-8 of those missions in 6 months. Camps in Ramadi and Fallujah used to get indirect fire all day and night.......Now, its rare. Our base here in Al Asad used to get rocketed every 12 days......... We've been rocketed once in 6 months.

During my first 3 tours here, I never saw a single Iraqi Army unit. This tour, they have taken over significant portions of the Area of Operations. Hell, I've nearly bombed them on at least 3 occasions because of their aggressive patrolling (they fail to tell anyone where they are going). They still have a ways to go: The retards I was providing overwatch for this morning, were trying everyone's patience. But, they were engaged in the arena and patrolling a dangerous area on foot. How can we possibly abandon these people now?

Another thing that struck me the other day is how much better the US Army has become. 7 years ago, they were a bloated lazy mess.... I believe most didn't know how to use their personal weapons very well. Poor at convoy ops and patrolled in their HMMWVs. Now, they are lighter, more expeditionary, mobile, better armored. They patrol on foot and aggressively pursue contact with the insurgency. I think they still have a ways to go to be better at coordinating fires, but they are more Marine like than ever. As long as their version of a Forward Air Controller (FAC) continues to sit in a command post and "control" air fires from a computer terminal, they will never get it right (SEAL and Marine FACs are embedded with the infantry company).

Advon for the Bats left this morning. We should be wandering into the overhead around the 1st. I'll be able to give you a better "charlie time" in a couple weeks.

Morale is high, the Marines can smell the barn. It's hard to keep them focused. I still have 20 days of kill these mother****ers, so I don't wanna take even one day off.

Big Mama is charged up for the homecoming.

The cruise plaque (etched mirror behind the bar in the Miramar O' Club) unveiling is still scheduled for April 27th. The pukin dog logo will be proudly adorned. Hope you can get some of the fellas to join us. I've seen the @#%$ Dogs come out of the woodwork at the prospects of free booze (& there will be free booze). Change of command is still scheduled for May 4th. Hope you can stop by for that, as well.

OD&YBF
CAVE

jk the sooner fan
2/17/2007, 09:02 PM
awesome

Widescreen
2/17/2007, 09:20 PM
Wish this kind of thing would get publicized. Instead, we'll continue to get the impression that it's "5 Americans Dead" today with no info on enemy casualties. I'd like to see an estimate of the # of bad guys we've killed in the last 3 years.

usmc-sooner
2/17/2007, 09:23 PM
I love it.

Sooner_Bob
2/17/2007, 09:46 PM
very nice . . .

Jerk
2/17/2007, 10:24 PM
God I feel like I'm missing out

too proud to enlist

too insane to be an officer even tho i have a college degree (AF thought so)

give me an m240 and let me go over there, with my fat ***. pay all my bills and give me some life insurance for the wife.

Actually I don't know why the AF wouldn't take me. You be the judge. Pilots license. 3.25 gpa. 20/10 uncorrected vision Fukkers. I'm still mad about that. They can stick it up their ***. Pricks. If they want a guy who will drop a nuke on someone's *** without question orders, then I'm their man.

Rogue
2/17/2007, 10:39 PM
If you think you're "missing" something in a war, you're not. Some guys like the author above actually find a "home" in a combat zone. Whatever it takes for them to survive and stay sane is fine with me. I remember being a kid and mentioning that I'd like to see "some action" to one of my Dad's buddies who went to Vietnam. He almost spontaneously combusted. I've been there now and since then worked with combat vets for the past 10 years. Trust me, it isn't all macho video game ****, and the "high" doesn't last long at home.

I sincerely hope that all of the political talk about supporting troops and veterans we hear today has even 1/2 as much fervor in 10 or so years, because they'll still need our help long after the sand has settled.

Jerk
2/17/2007, 10:55 PM
If you think you're "missing" something in a war, you're not. Some guys like the author above actually find a "home" in a combat zone. Whatever it takes for them to survive and stay sane is fine with me. I remember being a kid and mentioning that I'd like to see "some action" to one of my Dad's buddies who went to Vietnam. He almost spontaneously combusted. I've been there now and since then worked with combat vets for the past 10 years. Trust me, it isn't all macho video game ****, and the "high" doesn't last long at home.

I sincerely hope that all of the political talk about supporting troops and veterans we hear today has even 1/2 as much fervor in 10 or so years, because they'll still need our help long after the sand has settled.

You're right. For me, it's this: I've always been afraid. I couldn't do sales because I was afraid. I couldn't manage because I was afraid. I can never have a nice white collar job, because I can't work with people. I figure, if I would have survived a tour in the Sunni triangle, then what could I possibly be afraid of after that? It is not so much fantasy or a macho thing as it is something that would build character. Doesn't matter. It ain't going to happen. I wanted to join NG, but wife simply couldn't handle it and me and the wife got to make at least 6k/month to pay bills. Livin' large in da white ghetto ain't cheap. Besides, I lied to the AF about certain things, like never having asthma, which really could have burned my ***.