Marines seem to tell-it-all the best!!

[Fordzilla]

Marines seem to tell-it-all the best!! These types of guys make our lives livable here at home. God bless the American riflemen!!!

Here is a US Marine who is not afraid to tell it like it is..Political Correctness doesn't mean beans to this tough young warrior.

From a Recon Marine in Afghanistan:

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 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 20 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 to find me s tanding over him with my boot on his throat as I spit 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 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 **** 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 e ig hteen 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, and that's what they do. It's 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 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 wolverine s. 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 bull**** and designed not to deliver truth but rat her 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

Recon Marine in Afghanistan

[427 S/O]

Other letters similar to this have have turned out to be bogus, this sorta reads like one?.
IMO......

[Wes Tausend]

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That is a good read, Mick. No matter how you look at it.

As a kid, I used to read some of the combat comics, which weren't funny by the way, that depicted the horrors, heroes and honor of WWII. I looked over the photos my dad brought back from his tour and there were many, some of which are now lost.

He didn't serve on the front lines, but as Crew Chief on a C-47 in Alaska. He didn't see a lot of death first hand but did see his best buddy go down in their C-47. He told me, with misty eyes, that the Captain would not let him parachute to offer assistance but it turned out all were instantly lost anyway.

I can't remember all the stories he told me. I wish he were still here as I have more to talk with him about.

The story may not be true and is mentioned in snopes. Like I said it's a good read anyway.

Wes


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[Wayne Maybury]

I received this same email about a week or two ago. While it reads well, I didn't copy and paste it here as it just seemed to be a bit over the top.

Wayne

[427 S/O]

My only reference was the grunts I served with, and I can assure you they didn't write that well.

[Fordzilla]

I got it in an email this morning from a buddy. It may not be true but is still a good read & reminds everyone about the sacrifices being made by our Troops.

Wes, I still collect those old Combat comics! On the topic of your Dad, It doesn't matter if he served front lines or not, He served. It's people like him who served that allows us our freedoms today. I thank him & salute him for his service. Maybe someday I'll meet him at the big rollcall way up yonder.

[Buzz]

I enjoyed the read too, and found myself sceptical but almost wanting it to be the truth. As Snopes pointed out, however, it is filled with telling inaccuracies and the public eats it up because the message is appealing and brings comfort by reinforcing stuff that people really, really want to believe.

[trularin]

I am not sure scorpions will come out in the snow.