sdsubzero4
Spring Valley, CA
From a Recon Marine in Afghanistan to stateside family & friends:
>
> 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 Kush Mountains, 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 those
> 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. Well cut their supply lines and the
> eradication will 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.
> 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. Hun,
> 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 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.
>
> 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.
> Semper fi; Saucy Jack - Recon Marine in Afghanistan "Freedom is not
> free...but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share> >>
>
> 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 Kush Mountains, 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 those
> 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. Well cut their supply lines and the
> eradication will 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.
> 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. Hun,
> 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 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.
>
> 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.
> Semper fi; Saucy Jack - Recon Marine in Afghanistan "Freedom is not
> free...but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share> >>
