I cant wait to get my orders too. Im training to become a 92G at the DFAC as a cook. Im gonna pretty much be a kitchen Master when its all said and done. Good times and horrible food will be had by all

 

truth to this. recovering vehicles while trying to avoid sniper fire, while trying to evacuate ied victims etc.....

then the LTC is cussing out captains when a gunner fires 7 rounds with a .50 cal and the cpt is cussing out everyone else etc...

and the towel heads think we are scared to shoot, so they hit us again the next day etc....

yea, i salute the convoy teams, i got stuck in s-3 and they wouldn't let us out.

lol i can see it now:

roushburgers, roushbrowns, roush mystery meat.

 

Thats the shit I hope I never have to go through. In my last unit (1st ID,supported Cav scouts) the Squadron commander made sure everyone was qualified on EVERY functional army weapon. So everyone in the battalion was either certified,or expert on the M2,240B,249,Mk19,and the M4. We used to get in trouble by our unit commander for letting off LEGIT warning shots,until the point where her dumbass took soldiers off the gun trucks for it. Not to mention the soldiers on the gun trucks when we rolled out,were ALL 63B's. We didnt play on the road when it came to security. Cav watched our back,and we made sure we did the same.



LOL,im glad you will be a kitchen master. 92G is one of the worst,if not the worst job to have in the army. The shifts are the worst,and its just an overall bad responsibility to have. So hopefully you will be telling people what to do,and what to cook,instead of being the one in that position.


The ROE's suck extremely bad. It is setup to pretty much put soldiers in danger,and only allow someone to defend themselves if "shit hits the fan". And even then,after its all said and done,you are on the red carpet,trying to explain to sgt maj. and a full bird,or LTC why you were trying to make sure no one got killed.

 

Nah, I will probably be doing most of the cooking, its ok though. Im used to making them sloppy!

 

Has anyone been to iraq in the past year? alot has changed since the first time i was there in 04, it seems like all we do is pay them money and give them weapons! anybody else seem to think that?

 

I came back in April of this year. The ROE's suck. Of course it depends on what unit/location you are assigned to,but still.

 

yeah i just got back at the end of September i didnt go with a unit from eustis i got attached to 1AD out of germany, that crap has gotten out of hand we have been there how long and its like i get the feeling the second we pull out we are going to have to go right back. they are still sissys we need to get out of there and focus on afcrackistan. that is where the real dick heads are, Iraq is just a big shit hole.

 

I just hate how when you are in the city and those dickheads are firing out of the windws in the buildings, and you can't fire back for fear of "collateral damage". Fuck that. We should be able to light up the whole goddamn neighborhood if we start taking fire. If the civilians don't want rounds coming through their walls, then maybe they ought to turn in the asshole that lives next door and fires at our convoys every other night. I'm not condoning trying to kill every living thing in the area, but we should be able to agressively defend ourselves. Then the people would recognize that we aren't fucking around, and decide that maybe it isn't such a good idea to allow that insurgent shit in their neighborhoods.

 

Well collateral damage mainly pertains to the "kill everything on sight" motherfuckers that like to launch 203 rounds into buildings,or shoot the 50 cal or 240 at insurgents. Usually if someone fires at you,it doesnt matter where they are at,if you get PID,and someone says "engage" then they will get lit up. Now what weapon you decide to use,is the big factor in if you cause CD or not. But it really doesnt matter now anyway, Iraq has calmed down a LOT since OIF 1,and now the focus is Afghanistan (go fucking figure). I just hope im not one of those 30,000 troops they are trying to send there next year. We are scheduled to go to iraq (I wont say where,but its a pretty nice FOB,named after a big snake) and all I keep hearing about afghanistan,is FOBs getting attacked and overan by insurgents. That shit doesnt happen in Iraq.

 

we need to be like we were in world war 2 and just fuck everything up, nobody messed with america then lol because they knew we would put the hand of god down on them.

this base you speak of is where i just got back from. its a really nice base.