{"id":2112,"date":"2008-07-23T09:19:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T13:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2008-07-23T09:28:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T13:28:21","slug":"montalvans-unit-way-better-than-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2112","title":{"rendered":"Montalvan’s unit WAY better than mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

In September 2003, I was put in charge of 80 soldiers who entered Iraq without any weapons or ammunition. We were mortared for three days in Balad, north of Baghdad, before arriving in Al Anbar province to link up with our unit. We were unable to return fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dude, I thought I had some pretty good troops. But not a one of them could shoot a mortar out of the sky as it came at us. Also, none of them could reach out and touch someone at 3,490 m<\/a> especially when they aren’t line of sight.<\/p>\n

Raoul found this thing by IVAW’s Montalvan that is hilarious<\/a>. Seriously, go ahead and read it, but turn down your BS detector before doing so or it might drive you nuts. Montalvan has always been one of my favoritest crazies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On another occasion, my higher headquarters ordered me (unlawfully) not to offer humanitarian assistance to refugees caught between the Syrian and Iraqi borders. Dozens would have died had we not disobeyed those orders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even assuming the facts are accurate, what gives you the right to go outside Iraqi borders to do anything? Why is such an order unlawful? And why the F didn’t you resign your commission after being ordered into a country without a weapon and being ordered illegally to let people die?<\/p>\n

A friend of mine said it best: “if you saw all that, why wasn’t THAT your Winter Soldier testimony, instead of that boring shit you forced us to listen to?”<\/p>\n

Exit question: Do I even bother contacting a PAO to debunk the ridiculous “we had no weapons” story, or just a waste of my time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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