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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.

>

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