A Brigade Commander's perspective of the situation in Baghdad

brigade commander

[Mike Darancette]

Our snipers have had some success of late - enough said.

Why are we not getting any reports of enemy body counts. Most Americans would be led to believe that we are not capturing or killing any bad guys at all.

[xzins]

Body counts have been ruled "too Vietnamish."

I wouldn't do it as a body count. I'd do it as a story. Our sniper taking out a bad guy who was hurting people.

Then we don't get into who kills the most.

[mark502inf]

This is legit, although it has some minor edits from the original--not sure why. The writer is a U.S. Army tanker colonel commanding a brigade in the 1AD--he graduated from the Army War College in June and sent the email to some faculty back there & now I see it popping up in lots of places.

EOD is still around--those are the guys who dispose of the UXO!

[Travis McGee]

I just thought it odd he called it "emergency" ord. disposal. You'd think a pro would have seen it written out "explosive" about a million times. Minor thing.

[Fred Mertz]

Thanks for sharing. I'm going to send you a freepmail.