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  • Amanda

    Marine Recon Report

    * Posted by Linda Fletcher on March 27, 2009 at 8:02pm
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    2009 2:45 PMSubject: Marine Recon Report
    Received from a friend whose husband is over there on one of the contract
    jobs..jb

    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.

    Saucy Jack

    Recon Marine in Afghanistan
    Semper Fi

    "Freedom is not free . . . but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your
    share."
    Pacifism is a luxury paid for by warriors Semper Fi






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  • Amanda

    Please read this letter and pass it on to as many people as you can, these are the men and women who are fighting for the Rights that obama and the democrats are doing everything in their power to take away from us.
  • Paul A. Ibbetson