Letter from Afghanistan

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Letter from the Afghan Front

Hi everyone.

I'm still alive but freezing my tail off. We got 8 inches of snow last week and it reached 5 degrees below zero that night. That's not why I'm e-mailing though.

You may have heard about a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul last Thursday. It was at one of our FOB's (Forward Observation Bases) about 27 miles from here.

But the real story is why no one was killed.

We employ several thousand Afghans on our various bases. Not to mention the economy that is fed by the money these locals are making.
Some are laborers and builders, but some are skilled workers. We even have one Afghan that just became OSHA qualified, the first ever. Some are skilled HVAC workers.

Anyway, there is this one Afghan that we call Rambo. We have actually given him a couple of sets of the new ACU uniforms (the new Army digital camouflage) with the name tag RAMBO on it. His entire family was killed by the Taliban and his home was where our base currently resides. So this guy really had nowhere else to go. He has reached such a level of trust with US Forces that his job is to stand at the front gate and basically be the first security screening. Since he can't have a weapon, he found a big red pipe. So he stands there at the front gate in his US Army ACU uniform with his red pipe. If a vehicle approaches the gate too fast or fails to stop he slams his pipe down on their hood. Then once the gate is lifted the vehicle moves on the 2nd gate where the US Army MP's are. So he's like the first line of defense. Last Thursday at 0930 hrs a Toyota Corolla packed with explosives and some jackass that thinks he has 72 Virgins waiting for him approached the gate.

When he saw Rambo he must have recognized him and known the gig was up.

But he needed to get to that 2nd gate to detonate and take American lives. So he slams his foot on the gas which almost causes the metal gate to go up but mostly catches on the now broken windshield. Rambo fearlessly ran to the vehicle, reached thru the window and jerked the suicide bomber out of the vehicle before he could detonate and commenced to putting some red pipe to his heathen ass.

He detained the guy until the MP got there.

The vehicle only exploded when they tried to push it off base with a robot but know one was hurt.

I'm still waiting for someone to give this guy a medal or something. Nothing less than instant US citizenship or something. A hat was passed around and a lot of money was given to him in thanks by both soldiers and civilians that are working over here. I guess I just wanted to share this because I want people to know that it's working over here. They have tasted freedom. This makes it worth it to me.

JOHN, CPT , US ARMY

"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."

[mr2mk1g 10]

That's a cool story. At the same time though I can't help but feel for the poor unarmed Afghan who's given the really dangerous job to do so that a soldier doesn't have to.

[steveorino 7]

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He detained the guy until the MP got there.

I hope they were slow getting there.

Thanks for all you are doing. My son is over there now. As I say in every correspondence we have ... Stay safe! Come home!

steveOrino

[GQ_jumper 4]

Some of the Iraqi's I've worked with are the same way, there are some great people over there in both those countries.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

[willard 0]

You tell him that if he ever wants to come to the States he has a place to stay. The world could use some more people like him.

[warpedskydiver 0]

Send him to the US ARMY school of Infantry Training, Airborne, Ranger, and finally to the Q course.

We need men like that in this world.

I will take 10 men like that over 1000 whining liberal pussies who couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag.

BTW if you aren't a pussy don't be offended.

Some people talk shit all their lives, some show what they are made of, and never again in their lives should anyone ever question their courage.

[drdive 0]

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[Skyrad 0]

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Rambo fearlessly ran to the vehicle, reached thru the window and jerked the suicide bomber out of the vehicle before he could detonate and commenced to putting some red pipe to his heathen ass.

Guess what religion 'Rambo' is?

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[warpedskydiver 0]

Is he the only Afghani Jew?