Dead Eyes
(Originally posted at Acute Politics)
It wasn’t a good night to have a new LT on patrol. Our LTÂ was out with us, of course- the new guy would be leading the platoon coming to replace us. We were on a mission that could easily turn bad- as it happened, everyone’s night but ours was bad. We waited around at a Combat Outpost for hours for our Marine attachments to resolve some equiqment issues, cleared our route, and went home. One of our sister platoons ended up MEDIVACing two men on a helicopter after an IED strike, while another route clearance team out of Falluja was hit multiple times, and an EOD team hit a bomb that flipped a Cougar and sent two techs to the hospital.
The new LT asked “Is it always like this?”. His eyes had the dawning realization that he was now at war- that he was about to begin a year of one of the most dangerous jobs in Iraq.
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Posted by Teflon Don at 6:36 am on Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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August 29th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
I hope you are planning a book. I’ll be first in line for you to autograph my copy.