Marines seem to tell-it-all the best!!
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Mar 19, 2009 03:00PM
Received from a friend whose husband is over there on one > of the contract > jobs.. > > > Marines seem to tell-it-all the best!! These types of guys > make our lives > livable here at home. > > Subject: From the Sand Pit > > 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 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 standing 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 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 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. It'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 AK47'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. > > You wanna help? Buy Bonds America. >