Walk out from our position, 150-200m for sanitation's sake. Done the 'Rainbow prayer' at the entrance to each bunker we found to check for trip wires (never a one).īut what really freaked me out was crapping in the middle of NOWHERE.
A tale in the desert reddit windows#
I've blown up a refinery via TOW, searched a blown out bus, with charcoal skeletons hanging out of the windows (still haunts). This is going to be your seat, placed atop your squared off and sturdy, stuck-in-the-sand, case sleeve. Tear off a bit of the cardboard case and cut an ass hole (not asshole) into it, being sure to leave some overhang on right and left. Take the cardboard sleeve from a case of MREs. I had been entertaining myself with digging new trash pits for our crew and trying to devise a better way to shit in the desert. I found out years later this road was called 'Suicide Alley' because of all the crazy fast drivers.įast forward to our position about 500m from the burm, final spot before the Big Push. The whole 10 hour ride our driver, likely a contracted local, blasted the most gawd awful music I had ever heard. Cram 50 or so Scouts, with rucks, weapons and A bags into it? Yeah. This bus would have been burned, literally with fire, by the DOT. What wasn't normal to me was that bus ride to our first AO. Naw, I had accepted all of that as normal.
The boredom of drill in the grasping sand, lining up for Thanksgiving dinner on a tray, sugar coated with. Now, some other sane individual might consider all of the prior events to be WAY out of their ken. We offload and proceed to PMCS our fingers off.įast forward a few weeks and we are on a bus. Fast forward a few days and we are down at the docks, awaiting our ship with tracks and other heavies. Yeah I was tired and pissed but doing my job. Gawd dammit it was bright, hot and I have to stand here making sure some brass doesn't get his ass sniped? Ok whatever Desert Storm has begun.įirst order of business, take positions and secure permiter for incoming planes. We had landed, after a very sobering ride courtesy of an United Airlines contract flight escorted by a pair of F-14s loaded for bear, at a Saudi airport.
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