[SandRat]

This is a good article. I doubt it will ever be published but well worth reading. Sounds like places lots of us have visited and hope we never return to!

Like I said can't verify the accuracy but it's still a good read.

[SandRat]

Patriot and Media bashing PING!

[dwd1]

Is this the guy who is the son of the Major General who served with Patton, lead the way to the descendants of Jefferson accepting the descendants of Sally Hemings into the Monticello Society, and an Acadamy Grad who was willing to risk all to reveal his social preferences?

[MoralSense]

b

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ping

[Billthedrill]

Ook - well, maybe nobody at the Pentagon reads FR...yeah, right...

Good read. There's a convincing authenticity there. And yes, our guys are very, very good. God bless 'em and keep 'em safe...

[george wythe]

Nearly every LT in the 101st and in the 2/2 Cav (where I was last week) is a West Pointer, and although they look impossibly young and wet behind the ears, they've all been to war, and they go about their jobs with a ruthless efficiency I find hard to believe, even though I've been watching it for two weeks.

Thanks for posting this article. It gives us another perspective on the risks and vicissitudes of these young men and women who are fighting for our freedoms.

Happy holidays to all of them. May God protect them and bring them home alive and well.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

My brother is one of those LTs there but he did not attend West Point and neither did the majority of the other LTs with him in the 502nd brigade. Except for the mini-Bush bash, the article gave me a description of where my brother is right now and it brings him closer to me. For that, I am
grateful for this posting.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks, SandRat. (^:
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These guys roll out of the rack at 3:00 a.m. and put on their boots and pick up their flak vests, helmets and M-4 carbines and about 300 rounds of ammunition without complaint and hit the streets like they're going to Pizza Hut.

But it's very, very dangerous outside the wall and wire, and very, very scary, and I know, because I've been out there with them at 3 a.m.

....Nearly every LT in the 101st and in the 2/2 Cav (where I was last week) is a West Pointer, and although they look impossibly young and wet behind the ears, they've all been to war, and they go about their jobs with a ruthless efficiency I find hard to believe, even though I've been watching it for two weeks.

They're good guys, they pay attention to the lst Sgt in this company, who's a real pro -- a dream lst SGT, to tell the truth --and they're close to the Joe's. They also smell bad and [curse] a whole lot, which, strangely, makes you feel real, real good when you're around them...in fact, it makes you feel safe and lets you get a good night's sleep every night.

 .. crack back a glass of vino for me and raise a toast to the [folks] in Bravo Company, 1st of the 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Abn Division...

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P*i*n*g*!

* * * God Bless our troops ! * * *

[FreedomPoster]

Ping list ping.

[mark502inf]

raise a toast to the [folks] in Bravo Company, 1st of the 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Abn Division

A historic company--first American unit to close with the enemy on D-Day of the Normandy invasion. Attacked the German artillery command post in Foucarville at 0200 while most units were still trying to get organized on the drop zones and figure out where they were.

[gatorbait]

The resentment in the ranks of the civilian "leadership" down in Baghdad and back in Washington is palpable. The senior officer described the ongoing fight between the two forces at work -- no matter how you describe them --

Bremer v. Sanchez, state v. defense, etc etc -- as "the Kabuki dance." He called one of the senior CPA civilians up here in Mosul "a Bremer plant," and I won't even go into what he had to say about Bechtel and Kellogg Brown and Root...but I recall the word chickens*** being used.

Nothing changes, really,does it? I think anyone with a semi functioning knowledge of history will recognize these thoughts and feelings from the first recording of men at war on papyrus tablets. Truscott IV is a novelist, a fair one, really.
My 2 Dinars worth.

[hosepipe]

Thanks for the post... telling and real... and appreciated