I have absolutely nothing to post today, but I came across this on the internet.\u00a0 Now, knowing IVAW and our poster Claymore, the challenged for you is to figure out who wrote it.\u00a0 On an unrelated note, feel free to forward your war stories to us at the email listed below, so we can keep this gig going.<\/p>\n
I remember it like it was yesterday, man. Our team had been assigned to recon some of the barrier islands south of the Stankchoochee Archipelago, near Ding Dhong. The area was a hot bed of insurgency and we were ordered to go in and check it out. We picked up a chopper from one of the locals, some dude who dragged tourists around from island to island, and had him parachute us in from 30,000 ft. This is what\u2019s known as an \u201cair drop\u201d or \u201cair insertion\u201d, where we come in from the air. After our \u201cair drop\u201d, we regrouped, checked our gear and decided to eat. Without ground transport, we humped it about 3 or 4 miles into a village one of the guys spotted during the \u201cair drop\u201d. The village had an IHOP, so we lucked up. I got the all-you-can-eat pancakes, and they were damn good compared to the Army food we normally get in the Army (we call that chow, because you have to chow down on it fast). After \u201cchow\u201d, some of the team wanted to look for a place for us to hole up for the night. We were tired after our forced march, so the sarge told us to split up and find a place to sleep for the night while he interrogated a local girl he found outside of the liquor store. He said he was going to pump her for information and come find us in the morning. We never saw that dude again. Then to make it worse, PVT Goldberg blew our entire stash of flash-money playing Golden Tee while trying to get the locals to rat out their insurgent friends by buying a dozen rounds of beer for everyone. With our resources gone, our sergeant MIA and my cell phone down to just three bars on the battery, we called the ball and ordered EVAC. Goldberg\u2019s mom picked us up at 1800hrs, the mission a total failure. This was just another example of the failed policies of Bush and how this war has killed the soul of this country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"