[moonpie57]

Sure would be nice if the folks that make the machines would donate one...I’d go buy a few Slurpees to help out. And if the military can get something as big as a tank into Iraq, looks like they might be able to squeeze in a lil old Slurpee machine.

[SoldierMedic]

At training we would eat this cake called something like Velvet Chocolate. It tasted like heaven, if heaven has a taste. Rowan once said before he died that the closest thing he got to that cake in Iraq was maybe some Wheat snack bread with some blood on it. There’s no I way can in good conscience not donate to help get this Slurpee machine overseas.

[river rat]

Slurpees, notebook computers, phone calls home, weekly mail call, GPS navigation, night vision devices, 24/7 air cover overhead, no more than a 30 minute chopper ride to a full scale field hospital or an hour from even more sophisticated medical facilities, real time satellite imagery of the area, smart bombs, heavy tanks on call, fewer friendly or enemy KIA in 5 years of war than we experienced in some months....etc, etc.....

Hell, we felt blessed if the damned rains would stop, or we had Sterno to provide a smokeless fire to heat a drink without signally our position, or if we had a clean change of clothing once a month, cross a stream without picking up leaches or had enough claymores, M60s and 81MMs set up to sleep peacefully......

How the times and expectations change...

But — Iraq and Afghanistan pose a set of horrors that I wouldn’t want to face..
The enemy and the people are one and the same......with no way to tell the difference until they decide to strike..

Semper Fi