Posted on 05/31/2006 6:42:58 AM PDT by Skibert
I had something odd happen to me the other day. I was flying over Baghdad at night, and like some lightbulb going off over my head, suddenly had what felt like the fear of God hit me. The weird thing is, I've never experienced that in the time I've been over here. I'll admit, granted, that I've had plenty of "Oh, s***" moments over here (like looking over at the road next to you and seeing wires coming from the bag right next to your HMMWV, or hearing rockets shoot overhead, or mortars land near your CHU, or AK fire snap over your head) but never what I'd consider truly "fear". But, there I was, kicked back in a seat in a Chinook, and suddenly the thought occured to me: "some jerk insurgent down there could fire off a surface-to-air missile, blowing this chopper, and me, out of the sky..." I mean, I could almost feel the flames, smell the burning fuel, the works; the thought was that vivid. And, just as suddenly, that feeling was gone. It was odd. I never had the desire to stop the mission, or do anything like that, it was like my mind suddenly realized, "Hey, I'd better consider my mortality...
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God Bless our Military.
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