Originally Posted by lonesome roads
Originally Posted by Brian
…Afghanistan 2012…

There at the same time. 5-12 to 5-13. Where’d the last 13 years go?


Originally Posted by Brian
…the US Army in their infinite wisdom would only issue me a Beretta M9 pistol. (Ft Benning CRTC policy for field grad officers)
I was not going to be advising Afghans with just a 9MM.
finally I was able to get a 249 SAW…[\quote]

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Shouldn’t have been too hard to find a PFC to swap with you. One of my troops loves to show off the scar from his SAW rubbing his skin “down to the bone” as he likes to remind us every time we get together. Fancy M-4 eh? We went over with A-1’s. People would look at us like WTF is that? Might as well been a musket. They scrapped them at Hood when we got back. What FOB is that? Looking pretty lush and flat. Sincerely…


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PFC L. Rhodes USA (ret)

p.s. They run out of helmet covers?


Well, Lonny, you did have that crummy job at UPS. Maybe you spent 13 years trying to forget about that?

I was thinking you were USMC, not Army.

Best,
Ted

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Oorah.