Posted on 01/12/2005 5:39:49 PM PST by Critical Bill
Z-Z-Z-R-R-R-R-E-W-W-W-BOOM “DAMN! That shit was CLOSE!” A single mortar round exploded in our LRP. So much for being on the safe side of the berm. The sound was incredible. I don’t know where they got that whistle sound in cartoons that bombs make when they drop. This sounded like the mortar round was ripping the sky open. The air was actually tearing. Imagine you are standing on the ground, and an elevated passenger train just zipped on its tracks right over your head. That was similar to the shocking and rushing, whooshing feel of the shell zipping by us before it impacted. Fortunately it didn’t hit anybody. So nobody panicked
“That was fucking awesome! Did you hear that sound?” These were the exclamations of exuberant soldiers just witnessing another new mind-boggling event. There was no fear in us at all. I mean, what could you do? You didn’t get hit, so it looks like you made it. And since none of us would trade anything in the world for helping some Marines out in doing something historic, you take the good with the bad.
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"The car danced with each round that impacted. It looked like a beast was inside and he was punching his way out. The hood rose up. The door blew out. The tire exploded. The roof bowed out.
Great stories.
Excellent read!
Pinging a few friends.
Thanks for the ping, young lady.
Ahhhh...thank YOU!! I was referred to as "ma'am" by one of our young heroes today...I was feeling quite old! LOL!!!
Good stuff.
Thanks for this post. Multiply it by literally hundreds, and one starts to get a feel as to how more then a thousand insurgents went up in smoke. I am convinced many of them fled as they realize they where finished. Perhaps a book will be pubished that gives a somewhat accurate number of how many insurgents and and terrorist actually where killed. Surely many met their end as they tried to exit the city that was pretty much encompassed by sniper teams and choppers.
At any rate, the Fallujah problem is pretty much over. Perhaps the locals have learned something from it. Then again, perhaps not. Guess time will tell. It seems impossible to gauge the Arab mind. They are so foreign in so many ways.
Indeed. Also never forget that they are the aggressors in this war. The liberal media, and other fools, would have us think else!
The best story is the one about taking out 50 terrorists with arty and seeing the bodies mushrooming up into the sky.
"Indeed. Also never forget that they are the aggressors in this war. The liberal media, and other fools, would have us think else!"
You got that right sir. I have come to the conclusion that many of them (L/MSM) are so trained in tunnel vision reporting that some of them simply have no clue as how to perform un-bias reporting. And the Islamic community just love to take advantage of the situation.
"The best story is the one about taking out 50 terrorists with arty and seeing the bodies mushrooming up into the sky."
I can conjure up images of this. During my youth I lived next to a large chemical plant in Philly that often had explosions that would rock the whole neighborhood. I have on a few occasions watched in horror as multiple storage tanks go up, into huge fire balls, followed by black mushroom clouds mixed with debrie. Those goons didn't know what hit em.
Excellent, thanx for that. Good things do happen to nice guys.
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