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Subject: Fw: Scorpions, Chiggers & Sand Fleas...
Read this and think while you read it -------then pray for these guys
Subject: Fw: Scorpions, Chiggers & Sand Fleas...
From a Recon Marine in Afghanistan
From the Sand Pit it's freezing here. I'm sitting on
hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu
Kus Mountains , along the Dar 'yoi Pomir River , watching a hole that
leadsto 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 *** every ten to
fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given
up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but the 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 rink 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 **** 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 Pushtuns, 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, nor for
each other, nor 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 *** 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 bull**** 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.
Saucy Jack
Recon Marine in Afghanistan
Semper Fi
"Freedom is not free...but the U.S. Marine Corps
will pay most of your share".
Read this and think while you read it -------then pray for these guys
Subject: Fw: Scorpions, Chiggers & Sand Fleas...
From a Recon Marine in Afghanistan
From the Sand Pit it's freezing here. I'm sitting on
hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu
Kus Mountains , along the Dar 'yoi Pomir River , watching a hole that
leadsto 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 *** every ten to
fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given
up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but the 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 rink 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 **** 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 Pushtuns, 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, nor for
each other, nor 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 *** 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 bull**** 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.
Saucy Jack
Recon Marine in Afghanistan
Semper Fi
"Freedom is not free...but the U.S. Marine Corps
will pay most of your share".
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