Many have said we haven’t had enough troops in Iraq, but I have anecdotal evidence – the best kind of evidence – that there are too many troops. I got a call from my brother, Joe foo’ the Marine, this morning, and currently all he’s doing in Iraq is hanging outside of Fallujah watching DVDs. Every once in a while, he works on his tank, but he hasn’t even used it in weeks. He simply has nothing to do. This obviously means there are far too many troops in Iraq if my brother has so little to do.
BTW, keep him in your prayers as he has 24 more days to go. He’ll have plenty to do when he gets back to the states since he’s my best man and needs to write a good speech for the wedding… and it better be good! :: shakes fist ::
I wonder when the moonbats are going to start accusing Bush of keeping excess troops in Iraq as a start of a troop buildup for Operation Payback for the Hostage Crisis (i.e., invasion of Iran)???
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Sounds like Joe foo’is finding out that driving a 70 ton M1A1 down Main Street to ‘Protect & Serve’ sounds good on paper, but for some reason to locals just don’t get that warm-fuzzy feeling seeing the tanks go by.
I had the same problem in Bosina with my Cavalry Platoon (5 Bradlys, 3 Tanks). Just didn’t understand why all the people kept running away…we hadn’t shot at anyone for months!
Must be one of those ‘forigen culture’ things, because any red blooded American kids would Love to see tanks in the streets. (Way, way cool!)
Good luck to the Devil Dogs.
I was going to say, when I was in Russia, there was a time when a bunch of tanks went by. We caught up with them, and had our picture taken in the tanks, and with the soldiers “arresting” us. It was REALLY cool. The soldiers thought it even cooler the way we reacted. Driving down a major street in a tank is COOL!
A big “Always Faithful” to Joefoo the Marine. May he have 24 more boring days.
I hope you will include Joe foo’s toast in the IMAudiO podcast after the wedding!
Over/under – who knows. Day to day ops can be boring. In fact, on a good day the military is a clusterf**k. Been there done that & I know. We have always been great when it absolutely positively must be done. Its a ying-yang kinda thing. Like an on/off switch Fed Ex mode, Post Office mode.
Holy crap! I didn’t know you were getting married! Congradulations!
I’m sure Harvey will look great in white.
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Tell Joe Foo to stay in the damn tank and keep his head down and stay bored for 24 more days and get they hell out of there and come home safe!
Oh, and tell him THANKS for what he’s doing over there for the rest of us!!!