From the Soldier Side: Ok, I guess I need to get on with MISSION AL ASAD, PART 2.
There were were, surrounded by desert...in every direction.... desert. This place was hot...and I don't mean hot in a nice way...it was just friggen hot. The secured compound we were working on was near a flight line...and some sort of aircraft took off every hour or so...24 hours a day...sometimes it was a C-130 lumbering down the strip, or some kind of fast mover jet...that broke the sound barrier and my ear drums.
Since the compound we were working in was extra secure, they brought in chow in cans....to feed everyone. The food was never hot and after a few days it started to really suck. We asked where the closest KBR mess hall was---a 2 mile walk across the desert...I took off with my team for some decent food. The walk there and back was very interesting....there were crashed Migs and other debris. We couldn't figure out which war some of this stuff was from...the Gulf War or the current one. There was also an Internet Cafe near by...so I could fix my fix.
After almost a week had passed by, with us not really having anything to do... the leader of the little group we were there to help ( a nice Marine 2 Lt) told us that there was a "BIG RAID" coming up. That was way we were sent there...before we were needed...so when the "customers" arrived, we'd already be set up to provided the "customer service" and get them on their way quicker.
This was going to be a big big raid...they had XXXXX number of Marines, Army and Air Force pukes flying cover... the night of the raid, we were all sitting around waiting for word to come back of all the new "customers" that were coming in from the big raid.
(No, I really didn't shoot down that Mig with my M-9. And nobody really calls me CI-Roller Dude.)
to be cont....
4 comments:
I am always glad whenyou can paint a picture for me. It makes it easier to help.
I can't believe Iraqis ever had an air force - these SOBs can't even keep a generator running. They don't seem to understand what maintenance means, they just run everything we give them into the ground. All those taxes dollars wasted on a people that don't care enough about their own condition to even wash their hands. WTF.
grumpy,
If you look at the photo of the Mig really carefully....I didn't see any signs that it was shot down or hit with anything on the ground...I think it just fell apart from them friggen Hajjis not taking care of it.
The Eastern Bloc folks sold them some good shit, but they didn't know how to take care of it.
Some of the Mig hangers we were living in were hit with US 500 lb bombs---that just bounced off... not hajji made, but eastern bloc made hangers.
okay...part 3 please...
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