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Follow-up from last question ..
Thank you for taking the time to write the long response for my question. I really appreciated hearing a first hand account on the war. You know, before reading your response, i had a totally different view on the soldiers fighting over there. What the media shows us citizens, and what actually happens there is VERY different. I honestly thought you all had adequate food and shelter 24/7, which i assume is wrong according to you talking about eating crickets by the border. I had many other assumptions which were all proven wrong, I'm glad i finally got a more accurate vision of what you guys go through. What interested me from your response is when you told me about you shooting the taliban, and watching them dance in fire. You clearly enjoyed that, thats something i can't understand. Developing such a hate so strong, thats unbelieveable. I understand why you all would develop hate like that, but it really sucks that it exists in the world. Its just something you gotta deal with. Do you think this war will be over soon? Do you think that this war is even necessary, despite all the lives we're losing? I can't understand what it is like for your family, they must be so strong to deal with this. It's true what you say, people have say that they support you, but they have no idea what it's like for your family, and most of them don't give a damn. That's the sad part of our society today. The greatest generation, those who risked their lives in WW1 and WW2 have mostly all died, they were the real heroes, as are you guys. You put others before yourselves, and display extreme acts of courage and strength, you have my upmost respect. I have never respected anyone (other then my parents) more then i have respected you all. It saddens me that people spend more time focusing on celebrity news, AMERICAN IDOL RESULTS, and other unneccsary shit, rather then focusing on what actually matters in the world, and the dangerous work that you soldiers do everyday. I just want you to know that you all are in my blessings everyday, and i greatly appreciate the work you do, and the struggles you go through. Regular citizens these days are PATHETIC, their so LAZY. People back in WW2 and WW1 times jumped to the chance to honour their country and friends, but people these days don't give two shits. I've also seen rows and rows of thousands of people here in Canada, who watch a fallen soldier come home, makes me cry everytime. That's great your finally going home and get to see your family, tell me how that goes. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and answering. =)
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yeah, all those things about supplies, that happens in iraq. my Fob and Combat outpost were the furthest outposts in afghanistan from our main bases. I've lived under a piece of plywood leaned against a wall for a two week stretch eating, well, food that would literally kill any normal american because of how rotten it was. you get used to it. as for our hatred, its well founded, the sheer ferocity of our enemies has to be met in kind, in my sector, the kid gloves the american people make us wear were off, and the brass knuckles were on. it doesn't mean I hate the afghans, we tried our damndest to help them, and they helped us find the bad guys. partly because of the suicide bombs that killed a some of our locals, including a bunch of kids. that was brutal to deal with. Americans grow up in a bubble for the most part. the world is brutal and unforgiving as a rule, america and europe are the exception. There's no question in my mind that OEF is the right thing to do, but its going to take years to end this war, fighting a counterinsurgency is long and drawn out anyways, and Afghanistan is the perfect terrain for a classic insurgency. right now we have nowhere near enough people on the ground to secure the population, its just too scattered, so we just pile our troops on the eastern side of the country and try to shield the rest of it so that aid workers can do their thing. my battalion sector was 18,000 square kilometers, covered by six hundred soldiers. thats ridiculous, my troop sector alone was the size of delaware. I give it about a another decade.
I was kinda wondering why you were using british spelling for a bit, that explains things. your soldiers down in helmand fight like tigers, I've seen them and the british Para in action, and its impressive. The problem is that their rules of engagement won't allow them to attack, or even return fire, without the permission of a Colonel or higher. they're totally hamstrung by their governments and its sick. luckily most of them say to hell with ROE when they make contact. But at least they always call us triggerhappy americans in when they need our relatively lax rules to assault a taliban stronghold. NATO is still strong out on the battlefield, but its like the rest of things, weak on the home front.
anyways, I gotta get to work.
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