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Posted: 1/17/2016 1:31:16 PM EDT
Title says it all...

1DD
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 1:31:58 PM EDT
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fully functional indoor plumbing.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 1:34:28 PM EDT
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A pretty horrific medevac I was on. Had a few sleepless nights over that one.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 1:39:37 PM EDT
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One of my teachers in high school was a Vietnam vet and he recounted a time when his unit came across an old, abandoned French plantation in what seemed to be the middle of nowhere.  The house, while overgrown on the outside, was largely intact.  He went inside and found a room with a bed and what he thought was an animal hide used decoratively to top the bed.  He decided to lay down for a moment since he hadn't been anywhere near a real bed in some time.  When he went to lay down, what he thought was a rug turned out to be alive.  It was a tiger.  He scrambled to draw his pistol but by the time he drew it the tiger had already jumped out of the window.  He considers that one of the most bizarre moments he experienced over there.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 1:41:03 PM EDT
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Seeing as this is a firearms forum! The destruction of SVD's, mp5's, and a slew of other highly collectible guns...... Engineers blew em up the bastards! I did manage to play with several goodies before the Big Bang..... M3, ppsh and a Stetchkin
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 1:45:59 PM EDT
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Nothing to add other then something changed from the original post.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 1:48:03 PM EDT
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Local men holding hands on a certain day.

(In before the sheep fucking)
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 1:57:01 PM EDT
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Erbil had advertisements for US style suburb homes, note although in Iraq I don't consider it a war zone.  Felt safer there than in most parts of US.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 1:59:37 PM EDT
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A beheaded man laying in the median of a major road hands tied behind his back with his dog curled up next to him trying to keep warm
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:00:03 PM EDT
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Erbil is a very interesting and historical place. I read up on it while working for AFCENT in 2014 and it was being threatened by ISIS.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:00:22 PM EDT
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One of my teachers in high school was a Vietnam vet and he recounted a time when his unit came across an old, abandoned French plantation in what seemed to be the middle of nowhere.  The house, while overgrown on the outside, was largely intact.  He went inside and found a room with a bed and what he thought was an animal hide used decoratively to top the bed.  He decided to lay down for a moment since he hadn't been anywhere near a real bed in some time.  When he went to lay down, what he thought was a rug turned out to be alive.  It was a tiger.  He scrambled to draw his pistol but by the time he drew it the tiger had already jumped out of the window.  He considers that one of the most bizarre moments he experienced over there.
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Dam
Thats not the pussy you want to find waiting for you in the bed.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:02:06 PM EDT
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All of the red/blonde haired and green/blue eyed people in Iraq.  Kinda threw me for a loop.

And the sweet Sterling 9mm and Russian Type 2 milled AK I drooled over...  What I would pay to bring those back with me!    DAMN Hughes Amendment!  
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:05:32 PM EDT
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Two pre teen boys fucking donkeys.  Rolling into one of our IP stations and there is a dead guy laying on the ground. Terp states he likes his shoes, takes them.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:08:10 PM EDT
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Dogs eating human remains was pretty nasty.









How they treated insane/retarded people was...disconcerting.  Think, dude chained to the bed in the movie Seven.  First time I saw it, it was a knock and search.  We found a bound man in a filthy dark room.  There was a gag present, but he was not gagged when we found him.  We thought we discovered a hostage, until out terp told us that this was SOP for people who had mentally ill or retarded people in the family.  They wouldn't kill them, because I guess that's not halal.  They lived a life worse than death though.  They wouldn't allow them to be seen in public, because it would bring shame on the family.  




It was...disconcerting.  The smell...




Our terp explained to us that we would see more of it, as it was pretty common way to handle it.  He was right.




Sometimes, dead is better.









Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:09:22 PM EDT
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Sitting on top of a clam shell in a massive ammo storage site near Mosul.  The Iraqis would come in and steal the brass casing off of the shells.  Watched one take a pick axe and try to wedge it between the casing and projectile.  On the third swing of the axe he turned to mist.
 
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:11:59 PM EDT
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Hm. I'll be damn.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:13:19 PM EDT
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I watched a guy fall 4 stories and land at my feet on a foot patrol. I also watched a truck load of ANA chase down and beat unconscious a baboon that escaped their little zoo.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:14:22 PM EDT
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Sitting on top of a clam shell in a massive ammo storage site near Mosul.  The Iraqis would come in and steal the brass casing off of the shells.  Watched one take a pick axe and try to wedge it between the casing and projectile.  On the third swing of the axe he turned to mist.  
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Inshallah
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:17:11 PM EDT
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I think I speak for everyone here in saying you have my sincere gratitude for doing what you do for our guys. It's a truly noble thing.

 
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:17:36 PM EDT
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We had an incident we referred to as "Weekend at Bernie's".  It's funny now, but was very much not so at the time.




Our borrowed medic basically "misplaced" a KIA Jundi's body.




The IA's were, understandably upset, because there were some religious timelines that needed to be observed.




We ended up finding him, but it took considerable effort.








Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:26:17 PM EDT
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Dogs eating human remains was pretty nasty.





How they treated insane/retarded people was...disconcerting.  Think, dude chained to the bed in the movie Seven.  First time I saw it, it was a knock and search.  We found a bound man in a filthy dark room.  There was a gag present, but he was not gagged when we found him.  We thought we discovered a hostage, until out terp told us that this was SOP for people who had mentally ill or retarded people in the family.  They wouldn't kill them, because I guess that's not halal.  They lived a life worse than death though.  They wouldn't allow them to be seen in public, because it would bring shame on the family.  


It was...disconcerting.  The smell...


Our terp explained to us that we would see more of it, as it was pretty common way to handle it.  He was right.


Sometimes, dead is better.




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I had actually forgotten about that part...... Poor bastards.
Worst was a little girl they kept in a 5x5.... I think they took a hose to her once a week if she was lucky
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:26:30 PM EDT
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AK47 sitting on a bench on an apparently deserted street while driving through Fallujah one night.




Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:34:26 PM EDT
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All of the red/blonde haired and green/blue eyed people in Iraq.  Kinda threw me for a loop.

And the sweet Sterling 9mm and Russian Type 2 milled AK I drooled over...  What I would pay to bring those back with me!    DAMN Hughes Amendment!  
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This. I remember watching a convoy of IA go by one night and standing in the back of a truck was an Iraqi soldier as white as me with reddish blonde hair. That was the first one I ever saw and confused the hell out of me.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:40:09 PM EDT
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Was working a walk in clinic for the locals in Afghanistan that was run by the ODA and a SF Civil Affairs medic. The locals were thoroughly searched by the Afghan Security Contractors before they passed through the 1st holding area and again at the 2nd holding area. Then they were escorted into a waiting area in the mud hut next to the clinic. Before they are allowed to come into the clinic, they are searched by one of the terps. All of a sudden all hell breaks loose and several shots are fired screaming of snackbars and allah.

One of the locals made it past the two searches with a shitty pistol and was there to shoot up the clinic because we were treating women. The Afghan Security Contractors beat the shit out of him after he was shot 3 or four times. The Civil Affairs Medic and myself tried to stabilize him for medevac but they pushed us away and said it was better that we didn't know what was going to come next. They loaded him up in the back of their truck and took off. The Civil Affairs guy and myself looked at each other in disbelief like "did that just happen" in a sort of way. Luckily he was the only one that was hurt.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:40:10 PM EDT
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Had a belly dancer show up at a border cp between pakistan and afghanistan.



Looked like a chick at first, but was a man that the afghanis ended up ass raping later.



We just looked down from the tower watching them hug and dance with him thinking what the fuck
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:42:03 PM EDT
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Little kids running around with AK's

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Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:42:03 PM EDT
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One of my teachers in high school was a Vietnam vet and he recounted a time when his unit came across an old, abandoned French plantation in what seemed to be the middle of nowhere.  The house, while overgrown on the outside, was largely intact.  He went inside and found a room with a bed and what he thought was an animal hide used decoratively to top the bed.  He decided to lay down for a moment since he hadn't been anywhere near a real bed in some time.  When he went to lay down, what he thought was a rug turned out to be alive.  It was a tiger.  He scrambled to draw his pistol but by the time he drew it the tiger had already jumped out of the window.  He considers that one of the most bizarre moments he experienced over there.
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Your story reminded me of a few I was told. My uncle was in the Philippines in the Army Air corp when the Japanese invaded. He was taken prisoner, then after he was liberated went to to fight again. He saw some terrible stuff. Including tigers eating people, snake bites, the japanese tying people of Bamboo shoot and allowing it to grow through them. He walked through Hiroshima.

Terrible things.

Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:42:31 PM EDT
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Paladin crusing down the road while i was doing my laundry. Watching opra with enough explosives to take out a block next to me. kiowa flying over from a gun run while headed to eat. waking up to out going arty and mortors. having a hajji case our base while on guard duty. wat hing hajji shower in base runoff water. a little standing/bathing in a pond while a bull was standing in it taking a shit. bmw and donkey cart on the road next to each other.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:44:41 PM EDT
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storm one night was pretty crazy




Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:45:34 PM EDT
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The  portable single occupancy stacked coolers at the mortuary affairs compound with a sign that read "quiet day sleepers".
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 2:52:29 PM EDT
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A donkey stuffed into a small room on the second story of a house.


Luckily I wasn't first man in on that one, much antics ensued
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 4:35:12 PM EDT
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Moar stories please.

Love these threads.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 5:13:17 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 1/17/2016 5:22:52 PM EDT
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American village was what they called it. There was also this bug billboard for a housing development called the avrocity which promised American style living with pictures of white families enjoying their new American style condos and shopping centers in Kurdistan.

I think the strangest thing i saw was a donkey funeral and a donkey vouyer. There was a dead donkey on the side of the road and out f nowhere a clan of donkeys walked from the middle of the desert and each came to it and bowed their heads like they were paying respects.

The vouyer donkey was standing across the street from cows watching them as a convoy passed by. He'd get an erection looking at the cows, then blast his load all over the msr (Reno pretty close to Santa Fe in between Mosul and tal afar) -- he'd recharge, get a full hard on again and climax like instantly. We were go closer to go videotape him then someone said what if he's cumming because someone put an ied in his ass like some kind of donkey borne ied but plug, so we just watched and laughed from afar behind the cover of an mrap until we continued mission.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 5:24:50 PM EDT
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I think I speak for everyone here in saying you have my sincere gratitude for doing what you do for our guys. It's a truly noble thing.  




Thank you. Much appreciated.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 5:27:18 PM EDT
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All of the red/blonde haired and green/blue eyed people in Iraq.  Kinda threw me for a loop.



And the sweet Sterling 9mm and Russian Type 2 milled AK I drooled over...  What I would pay to bring those back with me!    DAMN Hughes Amendment!  
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1968 GCA is what banned full auto imports.

 
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 5:31:31 PM EDT
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Dogs eating human remains was pretty nasty.





How they treated insane/retarded people was...disconcerting.  Think, dude chained to the bed in the movie Seven.  First time I saw it, it was a knock and search.  We found a bound man in a filthy dark room.  There was a gag present, but he was not gagged when we found him.  We thought we discovered a hostage, until out terp told us that this was SOP for people who had mentally ill or retarded people in the family.  They wouldn't kill them, because I guess that's not halal.  They lived a life worse than death though.  They wouldn't allow them to be seen in public, because it would bring shame on the family.  


It was...disconcerting.  The smell...


Our terp explained to us that we would see more of it, as it was pretty common way to handle it.  He was right.


Sometimes, dead is better.




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I can back this up. About 2 blocks north of the Gov Center in 05. Strangest singing/moaning we ever heard in our lives, not Arabic just strange, behind a door covered in metal bars. Breached the door and I swear to god it was Sloth from the Goonies chained to the wall.
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I can back this up. About 2 blocks north of the Gov Center in 05. Strangest singing/moaning we ever heard in our lives, not Arabic just strange behind a door covered in metal bars. Breached the door and I sware to god it was Sloth from the Goonies chained to the wall.


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Strange





I wonder if the tard problem over there has anything to do with the arranged marriage of cousins over multiple generations





 
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 5:40:21 PM EDT
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watch a dude walk away from a 500 weapon go off about 70 feet from him. Just waked into a field like nothing had happened.



















































Then he fell over dead as shit.

Usually they get vaporized/torn to pieces

Link Posted: 1/17/2016 5:42:34 PM EDT
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American village was what they called it. There was also this bug billboard for a housing development called the avrocity which promised American style living with pictures of white families enjoying their new American style condos and shopping centers in Kurdistan.

I think the strangest thing i saw was a donkey funeral and a donkey vouyer. There was a dead donkey on the side of the road and out f nowhere a clan of donkeys walked from the middle of the desert and each came to it and bowed their heads like they were paying respects.

The vouyer donkey was standing across the street from cows watching them as a convoy passed by. He'd get an erection looking at the cows, then blast his load all over the msr (Reno pretty close to Santa Fe in between Mosul and tal afar) -- he'd recharge, get a full hard on again and climax like instantly. We were go closer to go videotape him then someone said what if he's cumming because someone put an ied in his ass like some kind of donkey borne ied but plug, so we just watched and laughed from afar behind the cover of an mrap until we continued mission.
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Erbil had advertisements for US style suburb homes, note although in Iraq I don't consider it a war zone.  Felt safer there than in most parts of US.


American village was what they called it. There was also this bug billboard for a housing development called the avrocity which promised American style living with pictures of white families enjoying their new American style condos and shopping centers in Kurdistan.

I think the strangest thing i saw was a donkey funeral and a donkey vouyer. There was a dead donkey on the side of the road and out f nowhere a clan of donkeys walked from the middle of the desert and each came to it and bowed their heads like they were paying respects.

The vouyer donkey was standing across the street from cows watching them as a convoy passed by. He'd get an erection looking at the cows, then blast his load all over the msr (Reno pretty close to Santa Fe in between Mosul and tal afar) -- he'd recharge, get a full hard on again and climax like instantly. We were go closer to go videotape him then someone said what if he's cumming because someone put an ied in his ass like some kind of donkey borne ied but plug, so we just watched and laughed from afar behind the cover of an mrap until we continued mission.


lol
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 5:59:35 PM EDT
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Rolled out of Tikrit one night, maybe around 08,
With a lead on the then Sniper of Bayji.
Pretty bad dude.
Several kills under his belt.
First house nada, but the BIT got a good lead on a close by house.
They gave up a dude a couple of clicks away.
The BIT got that dude to call our target and then we rolled on him.

We get there.
Dude is in his underwear,
Watching a soccer game on TV.
Drunk as shit.
Asking wife to serve us "guests" in his home, and cooperate and not make trouble.
Closet we found his rifle and stuff in, half assed hiding place,
Also had a few racy things (nothing by our standards, sort of lamer Victoria's Secret stuff),
For the wife hidden in there.

Around then pics of him and his stuff going to court would pretty much land him in jail as soon as the Iraqi judge saw it,
And right back out if in with the current powers that be or hung if a thorn in their side.

Friendly dude riding back to base in the vehicle with us.

Gators said he was basically a former regime officer and expert shooter that had only previously trained people and never killed anyone,  felt obligated to fight off the invaders and was drinking himself to death over guilt ridden sleepless nights.

Intel pic of him was an evil bastard. Pure evil sadist.

At the end of the day,
Rolling up a dude watching the game getting drunk and hoping to get lucky with the wife in some lingerie after was the most American like guy I ever say outside the wire.

Dudes working with us like the BIT, Terp, Mohawks, etc. also seemed like regular guys you could relate to.  But,
Never expected to find a dude like a Joe average American on any target.
God only knows what happened to those poor bastards after we left.


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This. I remember watching a convoy of IA go by one night and standing in the back of a truck was an Iraqi soldier as white as me with reddish blonde hair. That was the first one I ever saw and confused the hell out of me.
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All of the red/blonde haired and green/blue eyed people in Iraq.  Kinda threw me for a loop.

And the sweet Sterling 9mm and Russian Type 2 milled AK I drooled over...  What I would pay to bring those back with me!    DAMN Hughes Amendment!  


This. I remember watching a convoy of IA go by one night and standing in the back of a truck was an Iraqi soldier as white as me with reddish blonde hair. That was the first one I ever saw and confused the hell out of me.


The Mongols donated a lot of those genes. Genghis Khan had red hair and may have had green eyes. That whole group was fond of fathering babies everywhere they went.
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The  portable single occupancy stacked coolers at the mortuary affairs compound with a sign that read "quiet day sleepers".






It was a French SF base in Northern Afghanistan, I didn't make the sign.



 
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 6:25:00 PM EDT
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"Dead Ed"

The Kuwaitis killed a sympathizer after the Iraqis had bugged out. Nobody would bury him or fuck with him at all. Some of the guys sat him in a chair next to a folding leg table and hung a sign around his neck that said "Dead Ed".

He would occasionally be in a different place or position. He didn't really rot, he just dried up. All the tracks had signs that read "Ramp held by Dead Ed". After about a week the First Sgt. found it and went ballistic. They pushed a hole with a mine plow and pushed him into it.
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 6:38:31 PM EDT
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Human Remains everywhere.

ETA: Dog walking down a road with a femur in its mouth
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A Stormtrooper manning a MG and waving like Miss America in the bed of a technical on RPC/SF compound south of BIAP.

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No.
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I wasn't sure this thread would take off. Glad it did.

We rolled into Al Jabbar military air field in Kuwait during Desert Storm, right after the infantry and armor fucked the place up. Burning tanks and APCs, Iraqi gear everywhere, epic mayhem, Marine Corps style. As we are going through the main gate, I see a horse standing behind a fence, head half hung down, not moving. Appeared to me to be totally shell shocked. Pissed me off and broke my heart, because I love horses. Then, just up the road in the grassy median between the two double lanes is a cow, grazing like nothing happened, oblivious to everything... Black and white cow, like you see on a Ben&Jerry's carton, just grazing on the grass...

Also did not expect to see green grass in that desert shithole...

1DD
Link Posted: 1/17/2016 9:48:04 PM EDT
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Probably "The Great SMU Fire Of '10" at 'Leatherneck.  It got REALLY surreal when things started


to explode and the Marines began running lines of EPW's (Dressed in orange jump suits) to safer


(Less exploded ) digs while screaming "NO PICTURES! NO PICTURES!"








I also thought this guy was bizarre enough to take a pic of at 'Delhi on a RON one evening.




 
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I wasn't sure this thread would take off. Glad it did.

We rolled into Al Jabbar military air field in Kuwait during Desert Storm, right after the infantry and armor fucked the place up. Burning tanks and APCs, Iraqi gear everywhere, epic mayhem, Marine Corps style. As we are going through the main gate, I see a horse standing behind a fence, head half hung down, not moving. Appeared to me to be totally shell shocked. Pissed me off and broke my heart, because I love horses. Then, just up the road in the grassy median between the two double lanes is a cow, grazing like nothing happened, oblivious to everything... Black and white cow, like you see on a Ben&Jerry's carton, just grazing on the grass...

Also did not expect to see green grass in that desert shithole...

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Agricultural research complex. Cows, grass, just like home, except for the .mil shit everywhere.
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