Required Reading - (Liberrocky)

Michael Totten has posted a new dispatch from Fallujah. And, as usual, it is filled with awesomeness:

“What was the most intense thing you experienced?” I said.
“Personally?” he said. “It would have to be the initial push. By training I am a mortar man. We have these 60mm mortars, and our section had to carry our gear. We had to carry our tubes. The system weighs about 117 pounds, and we split that out between three guys. And everyone carried rounds that weighed about eight pounds each, and we'd have to carry about eight of those. Plus our combat load. We would wake up at dawn, fire our guns, pack everything up, get on line with the elevens, and just keep pushing through everything. It sucked a lot of times. It seemed like every time you were ready to take a break, it's like they knew, and that's when all the fire fights started. It seemed like it never happened when you were fresh.”

Update: It looks like Totten's site went down right after I posted this. Was it taken down by a Moron Monsoon?*

*Sort of like an Instalanche but surlier.

Posted by: Open Blog at 11:38 AM

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get on line with the elevens

I assume he means "11-B" for infantry.

Posted by: EC at December 10, 2007 11:45 AM (mAhn3)

2 Monson?

Posted by: EC at December 10, 2007 12:04 PM (mAhn3)

3 Strange for a mortar guy to call the infantry "elevens"...aren't they also 11s? Like 11Cs or something? I could have sworn all my 60mm and 81mm guys were 11s as well.

Posted by: Oedipus at December 10, 2007 12:04 PM (vm9Cy)

Monson?

Posted by: EC at December 10, 2007 12:04 PM (mAhn3)

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Fixed

Posted by: Liberrocky at December 10, 2007 12:09 PM (HR16A)

5 It's amazing how these posts, with very little original writing are often the most illustrative of the weirdo craven and pettiness of the wingnut webring.

And, as usual, it is filled with awesomeness:

wtf is that. These are people in constant serious peril making grim choices between killing or being killed. Black humor is an important coping mechanism but this kind of filigree is trivializing and childish, yet still does posses it's own awesomeness.

Then this:

Update: It looks like Totten's site went down right after I posted this. Was it taken down by a Moron Monsoon?*

I'm giddy with power! Oh my god ya'll we so totally love the troops! We are important!

Also it's awesomenessly interesting you chose that part to reprint. I think this one is far better and best illustrates what digiwarriors like wannabe metro Ace are all about:

“Was there one fight in particular that was intense or memorable?” I said. “The kind of story you would tell your kids or your friends back home?”

“I don't talk to my friends back home about it,” he said. “We pretty much only talk amongst ourselves.”

“Is it because they don't want to hear about it,” I said, “or you don't want to talk about it?”

“It's because everybody glorifies it so much, I think,” he said softly and a little bit sadly. “Everybody thinks it's cool. You know?”

“You mean American civilians glorify it?”

“Yeah,” he said. “Guys our age. You go home and you always get those stupid questions. Did you shoot anybody? Did you kill anybody? How many people? I just don't personally deal with that. I had a great uncle who was in the Korean War. I talk to people like him about it. As far as regular people, I don't. If they ask I just tell them it was nothing. That's what I hear from everybody else, too. They feel the same way.”

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Posted by: tommy at December 10, 2007 12:59 PM (sgF4t)

“Do you talk about this stuff with your friends and family?” I said. I was curious if he, like Corporal Koch, kept the war all bottled up inside to himself.

“If they ask, I'll tell them,” he said. “It doesn't really bother me. The more people understand what's really going on over here, the more support they'll give us.”

Except for turds like tommie. She's more into supporting the troops by seeing them lose.

Posted by: polynikes at December 10, 2007 01:11 PM (m2CN7)

7 Tommy thinks we're glorifying killing.
But I'm not.
I'm glorifying their courage, valor and, oh yes, their winning.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at December 10, 2007 01:29 PM (1tDA2)

8 What did I tell you about using the term "digiwarriors", tommy? My digiboner is gone. It's gone!

Posted by: Joanie at December 10, 2007 01:54 PM (Yyy1m)

I'm glorifying their courage, valor and, oh yes, their winning.

Which is precisely what tommy hates. He wants everyone to be a loser like himself.

Posted by: Nick Byram at December 10, 2007 02:01 PM (TYBRi)

10 wtf is that. These are people in constant serious peril making grim choices between killing or being killed.

Yes, and their withstanding said peril and making correct choices and killing the enemy without getting killed is "awesome" in the very literal sense of the word. Don't you agree?

So what part of this don't you get, and why would you get so whiny about it? Is that just your default setting?

Posted by: Bender Bending Rodriguez at December 10, 2007 02:43 PM (QypYS)

11 tommy. eat shit and howl at the moon.

Posted by: Aubrey at December 10, 2007 03:29 PM (xMl2y)

"BTW, can someone tell me how to get this gerbil out of my ass, its tickling."

Use your teeth, since you're already there.

Posted by: Swede at December 10, 2007 04:10 PM (VjBZr)

Strange for a mortar guy to call the infantry "elevens"...aren't they also 11s? Like 11Cs or something? I could have sworn all my 60mm and 81mm guys were 11s as well.

In the Corps, the MOS for basic rifleman is 0311. The MOS for mortarman is 0341.

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