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 xgenghisx at 11:38 AM

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