Hey FLTC I used to sleep with my 9mil at cond 3 and we practiced to go to cond 1 from a dead sleep cause next door were our allies whom we trusted as much as a Katrina area house insurance policy. Therefore outside of the wire was considered a vacation.
Honesty I am not doing supersecret stuff but there are reprecussions if various peoples do get wind of the details. As any govt secret they will but not on my account. I just fix boo boos.
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He mentioned that you hear the sounds of war in your sleep even during those rare moments when it is relatively quiet.
We'd hear the mortors and car bombs, open one eye, think "()* to be you" then fall back asleep.
I used to get up at 3AM make DOc coffee with 97% caffeen, deliver it to the most nasty, most often mortored and shot at post defended by Marines so by 4:30am they would be wired and I could go back to sleep with sugarplums dancing in my head. They called it 'Doc Coffee' and bad guys paid for getting up early in the Morning. We loved it. Breakfast anyone?
The thing is anyone can take a situation and label it two ways thus my Marines and myself decided to make it fun even everything around us really was nasty. I have photos of my guys smiling with sweat in a dust storm while on patrol. They took care of business when the muj knocked but afterwards it was time to enjoy those Cuban cigars, visit the guys who got their purple hearts, and write to my D13. (after we cleaned and preped our gear)
Most folks think it's horrible and by most standards it is howver if one looks at the Reenlistment rates and the number of servicemen volunteering for return trips they put another label on it.
When you get back please keep posting
"All I want is a weeks pay for a day's work" Steve Martin
