Posted on 02/24/2007 2:27:52 PM PST by Bigun
Hi everyone.
I'm still alive but freezing my tail off. We got 8 inches of snow last week and it reached 5 degrees below zero that night. That's not why I'm e-mailing though. You may have heard about a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul last Thursday. It was at one of our FOB's (Forward Observation Bases) about 27 miles from here. But the real story is why no one was killed. We employ several thousand Afghans on our various bases. Not to mention the economy that is fed by the money these locals are making. Some are laborers and builders, but some are skilled workers. We even have one Afghan that just became OSHA qualified, the first ever. Some are skilled HVAC workers. Anyway, there is this one Afghan that we call Rambo. We have actually given him a couple of sets of the new ACU uniforms (the new Army digital camouflage) with the name tag RAMBO on it. His entire family was killed by the Taliban and his home was where our base currently resides. So this guy really had nowhere else to go. He has reached such a level of trust with US Forces that his job is to stand at the front gate and basically be the first security screening. Since he can't have a weapon, he found a big red pipe. So he stands there at the front gate in his US Army ACU uniform with his red pipe. If a vehicle approaches the gate too fast or fails to stop he slams his pipe down on their hood. Then once the gate is lifted the vehicle moves on the 2nd gate where the US Army MP's are. So he's like the first line of defense.
Last Thursday at 0930 hrs a Toyota Corolla packed with explosives and some Jack Ass that thinks he has 72 Virgins waiting for him approached the gate. When he saw Rambo he must have recognized him and known the gig was up. But he needed to get to that 2nd gate to detonate and take American lives. So he slams his foot on the gas which almost causes the metal gate to go up but mostly catches on the now broken windshield. Rambo fearlessly ran to the vehicle, reached thru the window and jerked the suicide bomber out of the vehicle before he could detonate and commenced to putting some red pipe to his heathen ass. He detained the guy until the MP got there. The vehicle only exploded when they tried to push it off base with a robot but no one was hurt. I'm still waiting for someone to give this guy a medal or something. Nothing less than instant US citizenship or something. A hat was passed around and a lot of money was given to him in thanks by both soldiers and civilians that are working over here. I guess I just wanted to share this because I want people to know that it's working over here. They have tasted freedom. This makes it worth it to me.
Name redacted for security reasons, CPT, US Army
As a Viet Nam vet I strongly suspected that would be the case but I do feel better knowing it for sure!
Thank YOU for your service and the confirmation of the story.
Bigun
I did! Thanks!
Man, I thought I was having a SERIOUS deja vu until I saw SandRat's post. LOL!
LOL! Sorry for the confusion on my part!
Many, many thanks for this incredible story. We live in a parallel universe from the drive-bys. I love what that military caller said the other day on Rush's radio program (paraphrased): "Scoreboards of our enemies."
Ping
I sure as h*ll do and have for a long time! This is NOT new! It started with Korea, got much worse with Viet Nam, and continues to this very minute! I, for one, am unwilling to stand idly by while they do it to our young men and women today!
I've had quite enough in fact!
Great Story!
Of all the folks clamoring to come to the USA, I can think of no one better than Rambo. The guy is more patriotic than most of our electorate.
There's the difference between the Afganies and the Iraqies. It's kind of like the difference between the South Koreans and the South Vietnamies.One society actually wants freedom and democracy,the other really doesn't give a damn !!!
This is a GREAT story. I received this e-mail with the captain's e-mail address in Afghanistan and contacted him. THIS STORY IS TRUE. The captain told me that the Office of the White House Press Secretary had contacted him and that President Bush cited this story on Feb. 14. WONDER WHY I DIDN'T READ IT IN THE MSM? (sarcasm alert)
Yep! Hell would freeze over before they would run a story like this and it makes me literaly SICK when I think about it!
Awesome post.
Great read.
You'll get no argument from me there! I fully concur!
I hadn't seen the previous thread that SandRat posted..which is my fault for not looking...
But, it sounds like Rambo has a LOT of fans in Afghanistan.
Somebody needs to start making t-shirts with a red pipe over an outline of AF (maybe his picture?) with the words below, "What Would Rambo Do?" Nice viral marketing opportunity.
Yep! Hell would freeze over before they would run a story like this and it makes me literaly SICK when I think about it!
Maybe Hannity will interview RAMBO....
Thanks for the Ping Mrs. N
Great email.....too bad the MSM won't let the masses know any of the good news. Thanks, Rambo!!
That really is to bad.
You are welcome.
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