Ghost Troop Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 11, 10 September 2003

hikinghq.net ^ | 9/10/03 | SGT Rock

[GeoPie]

Hello from Baghdad. This week it is actually getting nice as temperatures get cool enough at night that soldiers are zipping up sleeping bags. We figure that just as we get comfortable the temperature will shoot back up again.

Policy statement: this is not a bunch of gossip, but truth, as I know it today. If you want to quote someone or blame someone, it is I. Also, the names of PCS and ETS soldiers will not be mentioned except in special circumstances in order to protect people’s privacy.

1SG Engman Ghost 7

Events this Week

This week we have been focusing on patrols, OPs and raids. In an attempt to cut down on looting near the camp, the platoons have been doing night OPs to “ambush” the looters as they come in. They don’t shoot unless they have to; so far they have only arrested looters and confiscated their animals. At one time the troop had 3 donkeys and a horse.

[GeoPie]

I am an avid hiker and came across this web page when investigating light weight backpacking. This Srg has a page for hints and tips. However, lately he uses this web page to update the loved ones back home about ghost troops (located in bagdad) issue's. It is a front lines report, from an actual soldier.

He also publishes his letters to his wife. Go to http://www.hikinghq.net and scroll down to the links for those letters and other links from the front lines.

This is a place where you will get the "real story"

[GeoPie]

I am an avid hiker and came across this web page when investigating light weight backpacking. This Srg has a page for hints and tips on hiking. However, lately he uses this web page to update the loved ones back home about ghost troops (located in bagdad) issue's. It is a front lines report, from an actual soldier.

He also publishes his letters to his wife. Go to http://www.hikinghq.net and scroll down to the links for those letters and other links from the front lines.

This is a place where you will get the "real story"

[Wolverine]

Bump

[JavaTheHutt]

Ghost Troop, so named because in WWII the Germans called them the "ghosts of Patton's army". the 2nd Cav had a tendency to materialize out of thin air and scare the bejeezus out of the German troops with the ferocity and suddeness of their attacks.

Toujours Pret!

[silentwulff420]

My father was a member of the 2nd Cavalry Recon SQ in WWII. i never knew the that his group had even CLOSE the reputation that they did. He spoke of going out in black face with only a knife and being so far behind enemy lines that if they got into trouble that there was NOTHING that any one could have done to help them. He would tell stories, but i was always too young to see the real picture. I am 36 years old, and I am even MORE proud of my father's accomplishments the more i research them. He was born in Dundee, Illinois, a short distance from Chicago in Kane County. Many of the people of that area are of German Descent, which was a plus for the American forces during the war, since they spoke FLUENT German, who else to be perfect for a recon squad, filling it with people who could speak the language. My father has a multitude of commendations from the war, he started in North Africa and ended the war in Czechoslovakia fighting the Russians.
if you want to discuss this further, please contact me at:
silentwulff420@yahoo.com