charlie (ky)
New member
saturday night at 0100 i got into my 1st firefight, sunday night at 2000 i
got into my second, we took a group of female medical officers from the army
up to the neristan mountains to do what they call a med cap,they hand out
medicines to local villagers, i had a soldier in the back who i really
liked, a ltcol medic and a female major, the soldier was their bodyguard. it
was freezing cold and pissing on us the hole time,we were surrounded by
mountains.me and my plt sgt were sleeping in the back of this truck with a
blue tarp over us, i had been asleep for a couple hours i think, we had a
fire team of marines on top of mountain in an op on our left flank, and
afghan army on a hill top to our right flank, i had post on 50 cal soon so i
tried to sleep, at 0100 i heard the loudest thud impact ever it landed in
the middle of our patrol base, i hopped out of the back of the truck, then
another thud and another, then ak shots coming from the front, then the 50
and all the crew serves were going of in the direction of fire, and we
returned fire with our mortars, they dropped about 10 on us, we dropped 26,
all i could see was tracers coming from us and tracers coming from them and
bright bursts from them coming from the mountain tops, i ran to my truck
took a knee and dropped a full mag into the muzzle burst in about 10
seconds, some ----- was shooting at my truck 100 yards in front of me from
a hill top, when i tried to exchange i dropped the mag on the deck and the
spring inside popped out and my rounds flew out in the air, the impacts from
mortars were right behind me and to the left of me on the hill top from my
plts m203, it lasted about 20 minuets, the echo from the mountains made it
that much more intense, we called seize fire, and did a count and body
sweep, we took no casualties, the next day the medics did their ----- and we
rolled out, just before the xo got intel from the village mayor that there
is about 30 guys waiting for us on the other side of the mountain, the roads
are the worst roads ive ever driven on,they are about the size of a humvee
and straight cliff on the left side.we roll out and about 4 hours into my
plt sgts steering column on his truck breaks off so he cant steer, so we tow
it, we can only do 5 mph, now night fall hits, we are driving on this
mountain in the dark and then a bright light and mortar thud goes off behind
my truck, so its started, the hole mountain for about 1 mile on my left side
lights up with ak fire in random areas, we return with everything we got,
tracers everywhere, it was a sight to see as im positive you know. the
female in the back busts out rosemary beads and starts praying out loud,a
rocket flies past the windshield above my vehicle, we are going to slow to
step on it because of the towed vehicle in front of me. the xo stops the
convoy we kill the lights and engage. i open the door of my humvee and drop
a mag into the muzzle blast again. we start the head lights move forward a
little more and kill the lights, i open the door again and drop another mag
and a half and close the bullet proof door as they return, the scalding hot
shells are falling into my flack and blouse burning my neck legs chest and
stomach, from soldiers gun in the back seat. this went on for about thirty
minuets, the afghan army was walking along side the vehicles and returning
fire, we finally came around to the other end of the mountain and i could
hear them hitting the 2nd convoy behind ours, we took no casualties. we took
over a police station to hold up. i stood on the 50 for some of the
night.freezing soaked scared pumped and pissed off, we launched mortars at
the mountain from our pause until morning. they handed out meds and we
bounced and returned to base without out anymore -------. so thats
what ive been doing for three days.we got quite the welcoming when we
returned because everyone in the rear was listening to the net all night.we
are going back out there on friday. i hope every round i fired killed a
-----, or horribly disfigured them. we were helping their village
and animals and they were watching us the whole time from the mountains.----them ---- their whole country, ---- ala, ---- mohamed, ---- his prophets,
the kids, women, elders, micheal moore,cheney, and the medics who think they
can hand outs meds and win hearts and minds, ---- all these ------.
i will never forget these 2 nights, the morning after the 2nd fight the army
major.older woman, scared face and kinda reminded me of pat.she came up to
me wet and cold. with a teared up face and voice she said cpl tank i just
want you to know(stuttering) you were extraordinary last night, and i never
felt safer in country then with you last night. everyone around got silent.
i didnt know what to say it was totally unexpected and ive never been called
extraordinary before. i think i took a minute before i replied with no maim
its cool, and walked away to go eat an mre. that was ----awesome. its to
bad she wasnt like 19 or something.no maim its cool i kept saying in my
head, you dumbass you couldnt come up with something better then that.her
bodyguard soldier looked at me and says you bastard iv been working for her
for a year and never even got a please or a thanks.latter on i saw that
soldier in the gym with a usmc tattoo i knew i like him for a reason. anyway
it was an eventful weekend. its the talk of the base.combat action ribbon,
---- a.anyway i love you and tell mom i love her and miss her a lot and
think of her a lot.tell her im sorry and i will call her soon.
semper fi
love scott.
got into my second, we took a group of female medical officers from the army
up to the neristan mountains to do what they call a med cap,they hand out
medicines to local villagers, i had a soldier in the back who i really
liked, a ltcol medic and a female major, the soldier was their bodyguard. it
was freezing cold and pissing on us the hole time,we were surrounded by
mountains.me and my plt sgt were sleeping in the back of this truck with a
blue tarp over us, i had been asleep for a couple hours i think, we had a
fire team of marines on top of mountain in an op on our left flank, and
afghan army on a hill top to our right flank, i had post on 50 cal soon so i
tried to sleep, at 0100 i heard the loudest thud impact ever it landed in
the middle of our patrol base, i hopped out of the back of the truck, then
another thud and another, then ak shots coming from the front, then the 50
and all the crew serves were going of in the direction of fire, and we
returned fire with our mortars, they dropped about 10 on us, we dropped 26,
all i could see was tracers coming from us and tracers coming from them and
bright bursts from them coming from the mountain tops, i ran to my truck
took a knee and dropped a full mag into the muzzle burst in about 10
seconds, some ----- was shooting at my truck 100 yards in front of me from
a hill top, when i tried to exchange i dropped the mag on the deck and the
spring inside popped out and my rounds flew out in the air, the impacts from
mortars were right behind me and to the left of me on the hill top from my
plts m203, it lasted about 20 minuets, the echo from the mountains made it
that much more intense, we called seize fire, and did a count and body
sweep, we took no casualties, the next day the medics did their ----- and we
rolled out, just before the xo got intel from the village mayor that there
is about 30 guys waiting for us on the other side of the mountain, the roads
are the worst roads ive ever driven on,they are about the size of a humvee
and straight cliff on the left side.we roll out and about 4 hours into my
plt sgts steering column on his truck breaks off so he cant steer, so we tow
it, we can only do 5 mph, now night fall hits, we are driving on this
mountain in the dark and then a bright light and mortar thud goes off behind
my truck, so its started, the hole mountain for about 1 mile on my left side
lights up with ak fire in random areas, we return with everything we got,
tracers everywhere, it was a sight to see as im positive you know. the
female in the back busts out rosemary beads and starts praying out loud,a
rocket flies past the windshield above my vehicle, we are going to slow to
step on it because of the towed vehicle in front of me. the xo stops the
convoy we kill the lights and engage. i open the door of my humvee and drop
a mag into the muzzle blast again. we start the head lights move forward a
little more and kill the lights, i open the door again and drop another mag
and a half and close the bullet proof door as they return, the scalding hot
shells are falling into my flack and blouse burning my neck legs chest and
stomach, from soldiers gun in the back seat. this went on for about thirty
minuets, the afghan army was walking along side the vehicles and returning
fire, we finally came around to the other end of the mountain and i could
hear them hitting the 2nd convoy behind ours, we took no casualties. we took
over a police station to hold up. i stood on the 50 for some of the
night.freezing soaked scared pumped and pissed off, we launched mortars at
the mountain from our pause until morning. they handed out meds and we
bounced and returned to base without out anymore -------. so thats
what ive been doing for three days.we got quite the welcoming when we
returned because everyone in the rear was listening to the net all night.we
are going back out there on friday. i hope every round i fired killed a
-----, or horribly disfigured them. we were helping their village
and animals and they were watching us the whole time from the mountains.----them ---- their whole country, ---- ala, ---- mohamed, ---- his prophets,
the kids, women, elders, micheal moore,cheney, and the medics who think they
can hand outs meds and win hearts and minds, ---- all these ------.
i will never forget these 2 nights, the morning after the 2nd fight the army
major.older woman, scared face and kinda reminded me of pat.she came up to
me wet and cold. with a teared up face and voice she said cpl tank i just
want you to know(stuttering) you were extraordinary last night, and i never
felt safer in country then with you last night. everyone around got silent.
i didnt know what to say it was totally unexpected and ive never been called
extraordinary before. i think i took a minute before i replied with no maim
its cool, and walked away to go eat an mre. that was ----awesome. its to
bad she wasnt like 19 or something.no maim its cool i kept saying in my
head, you dumbass you couldnt come up with something better then that.her
bodyguard soldier looked at me and says you bastard iv been working for her
for a year and never even got a please or a thanks.latter on i saw that
soldier in the gym with a usmc tattoo i knew i like him for a reason. anyway
it was an eventful weekend. its the talk of the base.combat action ribbon,
---- a.anyway i love you and tell mom i love her and miss her a lot and
think of her a lot.tell her im sorry and i will call her soon.
semper fi
love scott.
