Thank You to All Vets Who Served

[MILFHUNTER#518]

8 hours ago, The_Dude said:

 

They were near a place called, Al Hillah. When I was assigned to the green zone with 3/2 ACR in 03-04 there was a KBR compound off the river in a village called Al Hillah. During the  middle portion of my first deployment my job was escort missions. We'd escort Vips around country. The ruins weren't too far from there. The Ishtar Gate that is there is a replica. The Germans took the original when they excavated in the 50's.

 

I was in OSUT in 02. Never got punched, but did get choked out against the wall. God bless my DS!

 

I studied history, not archaeology . But I remember this long covered chamber there. They ( a Chaplain guide) told us they didn't know what it was used for. To store ice? A warehouse? I just remember being awe struck that I was standing under a roof so old. Awe struck. And wondering how the !@#$ there was a ever a garden there because while we were close to the river, we were still a drive away. 

That is EXACTLY where it was. There was also a polish barracks near there, to help support Hillah SWAT. We would do raids with them, providing overwatch. I remember going down in choppers and flying over the polish barracks, they had a huge detachment of females, they would lay out on the roof of their compound in bikinis. They were babes, i still remember their fine fannies from all the way up in the chopper (legit hotness, not desert goggles talking but truth)??

[The_Dude]

29 minutes ago, MILFHUNTER#518 said:

That is EXACTLY where it was. There was also a polish barracks near there, to help support Hillah SWAT. We would do raids with them, providing overwatch. I remember going down in choppers and flying over the polish barracks, they had a huge detachment of females, they would lay out on the roof of their compound in bikinis. They were babes, i still remember their fine fannies from all the way up in the chopper (legit hotness, not desert goggles talking but truth)??

 

I HATE helicopters. To the point I wear not being air assault as a badge of honor which is impressive because I was at Campbell for like 5 years and always got out of it. 

 

I got mid tour leave my first deployment (not everybody did back then) and I got flown back to the green zone from BIAP on a Blackhawk. Honestly though I was gonna die — it was night and I heard a hiss and looked out the door and all I saw was a red ball. I thought it was an RPG for about the longest second of my life. It was a flare. The Blackhawk I was on shot it. They did it for friendly identification. WTF? Why? Who the hell us was flying around Baghdad then. I hate helicopters oh my god I hate them. So many of my buddies wanted to go Warrant — not this guy. !@#$ helicopters. Now don’t get me wrong I like that other people liked them because we used the hell out of Kiowa’s in the summer of ‘04 in Najaf. God bless them dudes. They’d drop us Copenhagen and made little parachutes out of PX bags because we were straight living in the desert and there wasn’t a PX set up yet. 

 

Super jelly about the fannies though. 

 

Member the porn DVDs the Haj kids sold? We’d flip through them and buy them based on the picture the disk came with but the girl on the picture was NEVER in it? we got some weird porn out there. Nothing like 20 dudes watching porn huddled around a portable DVD player with a 3” screen. 

Edited September 6, 2018 by The_Dude

[MILFHUNTER#518]

1 hour ago, The_Dude said:

 

I HATE helicopters. To the point I wear not being air assault as a badge of honor which is impressive because I was at Campbell for like 5 years and always got out of it. 

 

I got mid tour leave my first deployment (not everybody did back then) and I got flown back to the green zone from BIAP on a Blackhawk. Honestly though I was gonna die — it was night and I heard a hiss and looked out the door and all I saw was a red ball. I thought it was an RPG for about the longest second of my life. It was a flare. The Blackhawk I was on shot it. They did it for friendly identification. WTF? Why? Who the hell us was flying around Baghdad then. I hate helicopters oh my god I hate them. So many of my buddies wanted to go Warrant — not this guy. !@#$ helicopters. Now don’t get me wrong I like that other people liked them because we used the hell out of Kiowa’s in the summer of ‘04 in Najaf. God bless them dudes. They’d drop us Copenhagen and made little parachutes out of PX bags because we were straight living in the desert and there wasn’t a PX set up yet. 

 

Super jelly about the fannies though. 

 

Member the porn DVDs the Haj kids sold? We’d flip through them and buy them based on the picture the disk came with but the girl on the picture was NEVER in it? we got some weird porn out there. Nothing like 20 dudes watching porn huddled around a portable DVD player with a 3” screen. 

Yeah I disliked them too. We were so short on gun bunnies that they took our Abrams away from us about 3 mos into our tour (not to mention it cost appx $475,000 a MONTH to operate a single platoon). At one point we had to hit some hamlets way off the beaten path, so much so that M113 and our gun trucks couldn't safely and efficiently navigate back there. So they took our platoon aside and for 3 days gave us safety training on Blackhawks. For the next 3 weeks we were raiding hamlets and villages, most of them in the dead of night. I signed up for the Army and, most importantly Armor to stay the f*ck on the ground and here I was, flying around Iraq in a Blackhawk. In hindsight it was pretty cool, I dont know of any other 19Ks that got to do that stuff. Not for me though.

 

I got mid tour leave too 3 days in the green zone. They didn't fly us, we hitched a ride in a supply convoy and provided escort for them on the way up. Then the soldiers we swapped out took our place. It was cool played some Xbox and got to soak in some A/C. First time I didn't have to wear Kevlar since I was in country, first time in months we could go a day without indirect and get a full night's sleep without getting called out on QRF.

 

The hajii porn skeeved me out, but more so I am not into watching porn with dudes. F*ck that. My portable DVD player $h!t the bed about 3 mos into my tour anyway, so couldn't partake even if I wanted to. I was more into the dirty MILF that adopted me from "Soldiers Angels". That girl was insane!

[DC Tom]

2 hours ago, MILFHUNTER#518 said:

That is EXACTLY where it was. There was also a polish barracks near there, to help support Hillah SWAT. We would do raids with them, providing overwatch. I remember going down in choppers and flying over the polish barracks, they had a huge detachment of females, they would lay out on the roof of their compound in bikinis. They were babes, i still remember their fine fannies from all the way up in the chopper (legit hotness, not desert goggles talking but truth)??

 

The Etemenaki ziggurat is just outside al Hillah. and unless you're a biblical literalist is just about the best candidate for the Tower of Babel.

[The_Dude]

25 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

The Etemenaki ziggurat is just outside al Hillah. and unless you're a biblical literalist is just about the best candidate for the Tower of Babel.

 

I made googles. There’s a deal just outside the ruins but kinda attached that was pyramidy but if I’m remembering right flat at the top. Naturally it being a high point it was used for commo towers. I think that thingamabob is what you’re talking about. But my pre-Rome knowledge is ****. 

[boyst]

On 9/5/2018 at 9:40 PM, reddogblitz said:

 

I joined the USMC in 1976 months after the guy got killed in a pugill stick fight. I never got slapped or punched. I did have the Drill Instructor put his hAnd up around my Adams apple choking me a little for a few seconds once. Never saw anyone get punched (not saying it didn't happen to you).

 

https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/broadcasts/42895

For whatever reason whenever you mention your age I just never imagine you being in your 50's.  Maybe you just come off cooler than 50something or I just have no ability to mindread and prognosticate on the interwebs.

 

3ither way, I'd imagine you have some stories to tell in the final decade of the Marines going nuts on recruits.

[sherpa]

On 9/5/2018 at 9:19 PM, Misterbluesky said:

I joined the Corps in 1982...the days before the pusified new "rules" came into place.I never got B word slapped...I got punched.

 

I went through Aviation Officer Candidate school in 76.

It was run my Marine Drill Instructors and was pretty intense, see "An Officer and a Gentleman."

It has been grossly tuned down since woman were allowed in.

 

SEER School, which is POW school, was really intense.

Freezing at night in a box with no clothes wasn't that bad.

Getting interrogated wasn't too bad either-just get shoved into a wall a few times, but it actually warmed me up at the time.

 Watching waterboarding and hoping I wouldn't get selected.

It was one of two times on active duty that I was actually scared. 

Edited September 7, 2018 by sherpa

[Tiberius]

On 9/5/2018 at 12:33 PM, donbb said:

It's an honor to serve your country. I'd like to especially thank @Tiberius and @The_Dude for their service. 

 

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