What AO were y'all in? What timeframe?

sep to sep 06

hawijah near kirkuk, fob mchenry, a small battalion sized fob

OPSEC guys. What you've said so far isn't really a big deal, and I know you guys know what you're doing, but still, I have a tendency to get carried away myself with discussions about deployments and such. Just remember that you're posting on a public net.

Anyway, I despise the M4. It seems to get dirtier faster (is the gas tube shorter or something? I'm not really sure) and I freaking burned my finger after three or four magazines.

A 14.5" barrel is no win situation for me, even when driving HMMWVs I'd rather fanaggle my a4 up through the window than carry around an M4. Luckily we only have six in our company or they would stick me with one. Then theres the M9 which we won't get started on.

My friend James burns C4 when he's bored in Iraq. He says the fire is really bright and hot. He has a pretty short attention span... and he's pretty short in general actually...

I have enough friends over there that I myself am keeping an eye on these things. I do welcome any of you to PM me though if I haven't taken action to censor posts that compromise any U.S. Coalition forces, and I will not only censor it, but I will ban a user if it happens more than once.

It's not really opsec violation. What I said is about as general as saying "I live in New York".

yeah opsec is mission, routes, hvp's, enemy contact, blown up hmmvw's etc... trust me habib knows where every fob in iraq is since they mortar them constantly

Right, which is probably why I haven't censored anything.

I've never heard them called "Habib" before. We just call them "Haji" or "Hajj".

You know, I was thinking, too. You're right about us being ****bags back stateside. 13f's don't really have anything to do on a daily basis, which is why we always get stuck with details or studying the acursed "Red book".
Our "Red Book" is the division fires book that every fister is issued stating how Division believes our fires should be. It's so far off what my section Sgt has taught me.

Like how they told me to put my muzzle in windows when clearing? So that Mr. Habib can grab my muzzle, Miss Habib can shoot me in the face, Habib Jr. can stab me in the face and Habib dog can eat my dead carcass?

6+ inches away.

We just kinda got dealt a demoralizing blow. We were all under the impression that this was going to be a short deployment, But we got told today we'd be here till next year. Just as that information was being put out, We got RPG'd and took small arms fire from all directions. I was asleep and I woke up to the RPG blast, then I heard the .50's lighting everything up and everyone was grabbing IBA's and weapons so I put mine on and went to the TOC. As I was walking out of the barracks room I saw a guy who was on guard on the roof being brought down, He got hit with shrapnel. The 1Sgt was talking to him to make sure he was cohesive all he could say was "1sgt, Reenlistment can go to hell."

Then later in the afternoon one of our mounted patrols got hit with an EFP, which seriously wounded a few people. I mean, They'll recover but it's just the fact that they got hit. Until now we hadn't come into any serious contact, but Hajj is unleashing hell today.
As soon as I got to the TOC I got on the radio and stayed there for about 2 hours in full kit. Friggin Sergeant Major comes walking in asking me about the situation while reports were still coming in and I was trying to explain to him that I didn't have any relevant information at the time. He's like "WHY DON'T YOU STAND UP AND GO TO PARADE REST WHEN YOU TALK TO ME?" all I could think was.. Damn people could be dying out here and you're yelling at me because I'm not standing at parade rest while I'm listening to the radio.

ROFL, Habib dog.

That's not an anti-army thing. It's just like terrorists...and their dogs.

what did you get on your last pt tests, and don't worry about sgt. maj. its not like theyll do anything, im sure if anyone saw an e9 scuffin an e3 it would be hilarious and would look bad on the sgt majs part

It'd take some guts to grab the muzzle of a weapon that's been fired recently.

Because being shot is a better alternative?

Plus there crazy extremeists. They do alot more painfulk things theb that.

I scored in the low 270's. I was suckin' though Because we wore our bear suits.

Do you have any proof of this? That insurgents regularly do very painful things to themselves?

No, I dont. However i know there willing to kill themselves so grabbing a gun cant be that bad.

I would.

Yeah we have proof of that. Fighters could fire a ****ing SMAW rocket into a building in Fallujah and the whole thing would collapse and two insurgents would ramble out of the rubble. Or shoot them in the chest three times and once in the head and they are still stumbling towards our guys.

Read some books about Fallujah and you will see it was like a Zombie movie. Some insurgents do so many drugs our fighters had to empty their weapons into their heads.

As for grabbing the six inch barrel, consider:gloves.

zombie movie, thatd be sick

You should film some stock footage for us.

Get some locals to get dressed up and walk around moaning and you can shoot blanks at them.

It can be the next conspiracy scandal.

"U.S. troops film zombie movie in Iraq!"