Good story! Nothing like that has happened here. Are you a soldier or marine? How do you post your articles to this website, because I would like to do the same?

I hope you stay save Steve, and keep the stoies coming. The people back home need some hope in their lives.

God Bless
scott

I hope that everone you write about has redeployed back to the States for their security.

For everyone home, yes, there are good stories out here. There are stories of hope, self-sacrifice, determination, and heroism. The new business is just that a BUSINESS! It is in business to sell you news, and get ratings for high advertisement revenues. If you want stories of hope and self-sacrifice you have to talk to the soldiers on the ground.

I can’t say exactly where I am at (OPSEC) but the other day we had 2 local nationals come in that were blown up. They were crossing a foot bridge in their villiage, and the bridge blew up. What this means to me, becuase we roll around in trucks, is that they were the targets. The boy was 9 years old with his father. His father got a chunck of shrapnel to his leg, and the 9 year old boy got one of his feet completely severed, and the other hanging on by a thread. The boy obviously lost both feet after being med-evaced.

The good news is that our medics saved his life. That was not a bomb that was targeted at us so the arguement that it wouldn’t have been there had we not been here is bubkis. But, because we were a 9 year old boy gets the medical attention that would otherwise not be here.

We are doing good here. We are showing the common people that Americans are good. We are showing them that we are better people than our enemies. We show them that “the ends don’t justify the means, the means are the ends”.

Thanks for your time
God Bless
scott

To the husband and wife fighting, if you had to do without one another you might be a little more greatful that you have someone to call your spouse.

To those who think soldiers are over paid, how could you say that and not be a soldier. If you really think soldiers are over paid the Army is still taking recruits, you can be over paid too.

To the Nam coment, yeah, it is a different war. The Army doesn’t deploy itself, so you can thank the President for that one. Talk to soldiers, they would much rather be home to see their families than in a hot, dirty, dangerous third world country, but soldiers are here because of a scense of duty something that lacked in all the draft dodgers of the 1960s and 70s.

America is spoiled, because we made them that way. America has everthing. You have to be in another country to understand how great America is. Don’t forget what made it that way, hard work. Don’t ever give up, keep trying. If you think your life is hard just remember there are those who have it worse. Life can always be better, but it doesn’t come without work. If you think your job sucks, quit and join the Army. You might like it, or you might just see how good you had it. The main this is don’t complain. If this sounds like I am complaining, I am not. I re-enlisted in Iraq knowing full well that I would deploy again. It is just frustrating to most soldiers to see Americans complaining about things when they really haven’t had to do anything difficult in their entire lives.

Thanks for reading and
God Bless
scott

Thank you all for your service! I just discovered this blog and am enjoying the excellent writing and stories. I wish I had been following this blog before.

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Thanks for you blog and for keeping us connected with 138th FiB. Can’t wait to see all you guys on Friday.