As I said, I got a call from my brother this morning. He heard of the attacks in London over lunch but didn’t know the extent of them until I told him.
Foo’ is having a good time over there and making good use of his self-taught Arabic. He has a lot of free time, though, and has watched all the episodes of Firefly over and over.
Recently, a building he was in was targeted by insurgents, with mortars hitting all around him. He said he just put on his helmet and went back to bed. I guess there’s no reason to get riled up every time someone is trying to kill you.
He says a lot of the insurgents are Sunnis, but those doing the suicide bombs to kill Iraqis are foreigners. A lot of attacks aren’t motivated by ideology, either. Fallujah is messed up pretty bad, and a lot of people will do anything for money, including setting bombs or taking some shots at troops.
From talking to Iraqis and those training Iraqis, Foo’ thinks we’ll be in Iraq for a number of more years.
Anyway, keep Sgt. Joe foo’ USMC in your prayers.
Good to hear from your bro. In prayers as always.
Sgt. Joe foo’: Thanks for protecting our liberty and helping extend the values of freedom to the middle east. You are in our prayers.
In the words of those awesome people over at Protest Warrior: “We gave peace a chance, we got 9/11”
“From talking to Iraqis and those training Iraqis, Foo’ thinks we’ll be in Iraq for a number of more years.”
My personal guesstimation is another 5 years. The US military occupied Japan after WWII from 45-52. The Japanese accepted democracy and turned out pretty well. I’m hoping for the same results in Iraq.
“Anyway, keep Sgt. Joe foo’ USMC in your prayers.”
Always! Godspeed Sgt. Joe, get home safe!
Foo-rah!
Thanks for your service, Joe Foo’. I’m praying for you and your success in killing terrorists dead.
Shoot two or three dozen for me, Sergeant!
Joe and his ilk are in our prayers everyday.
Every day.
Sgt. Joe Foo’ rocks!!!!
Semper Fi, Sgt. Foo!
I hope he REALLY didn’t use the NYT/moonbat word “insurgents” instead of %^%%$#$% bastard %$$%$## terrorist ###A$$h0le$.
My platoon is kinda dumb when we get mortared or rocketed on the FOB…we climb onto the roof of the building to see if we can spot the point of origin and to see where they land. My LT is the worst at it, though. Ok, we are really dumb.