From Sandbox to Sandbox: My 9/11 (917 hits)
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Submitted by Jack 11058 (View user info) at 2006-09-10 09:27:09 EDT
091101, 0900 Zulu
I'm sitting in the gunner's hatch of a HMMV, with my shades on and an Ali Baba scarf around my face for the sand. There's no M240 or ma deuce mounted on the rack and no weapon slung on my hip.
I'm with a SF B-team (headquarters-type element) ready to go on a lumbering ride up to the Iraqi border. Just a routine patrol, the SF guys looking for any chance to unlimber their legs. They are pacing wolves in their sanitized BDUs, vulpine in their leanness and barely contained agression. Most of them don't care for what they consider garrison duty. They'd rather be parachuting into the jungles of Colombia looking for drug labs or training third world military forces in counterterror ops. I'm just an intel weenie who befriended a couple of them at the gym. They are taking me up with them as a favor, to show me that a HMMV can indeed do fifty through the dunes.
The starched BDUs scratch at my collar. I've been in civilian clothes since early August, when I first arrived in Kuwait. I decide to roll my sleeves down against the swirling dust as the engine below me growls to life. I hide a smile under the scarf. This is going to be fun.
"Jack! Jack!"
I look down and see by partner Scopes running at us.
At the same moment, the tacnet crackles to life. I can't hear what is said, but suddenly the SF guys are de-assing the vehicles in a hurry and forming up around their major. "Stand down! Stand down!" he hollers.
Scopes reaches the vehicle at that time. "What's up, Scope-dog?"
"We gotta get back to the fucking office, man!"
He's sweating through his polo in the oppressive wet-blanket heat. The look on his face tells me there's no way I can be slow about anything.
I've got 60 on his 140 pounds, but I match him stride for stride until we reach the office we were working out of for our three month TDY (temporary duty assignment). The TV was tuned to BBC world, and the smoke filled the screen. The rest of the office team was gathered around and staring at the glow, several clutching forgotten mugs of coffee.
As we watched, a glint at the corner of the screen coalesced into a fast-moving plane.
"Oh nononononono..." came from none of us and all of us together. "NO!"
Another explosion. More fire. Smoke billowing into the sky. Scopes and I looked at each other and we simultaneously uttered a name. The name of someone we believed could be responsible for evil of this magnitute. Time would bear out we were correct.
We watched until they came down.
Then we went to work.
Scopes and I submitted six-month TDY extension requests at the end of the day.
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-09-26 20:03:04 EDT (#)
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"The name of someone we believed could be responsible for evil of this magnitute. Time would bear out we were correct."
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He's a patsy, Jack. He a no-good terrorists even without 9/11, but he's also a convenient patsy. I'm not saying he didn't necessarily have anything to do with 9/11 either. I'm saying that is nowhere NEAR the whole story and we need another fucking investigation.
Plus, people are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law in this country, and last I check OBL hadn't even been CHARGED by the FBI for 9/11 because according to their spokesman - get this- they don't have enough on him to take to a grand jury to idict him!
Chew on that a minute, then think about the one videotape we have of him 'confessing' and how he doesn't look like himself, is left-handed, and indeed ISN'T himself after independent facial analysis. Then think about the convenient audio-only tapes that were subsequently released. Something is fishy in wonderland.
I'll spare you the -2 treatment because I like you and like seeing you round, but don't close the book on 9/11, my friend. This thing is FAR from over.
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2006-09-11 18:29:55 EDT (#)
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Submitted by LSD420 (user info) at 2006-09-10 10:06:58 (#)
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Fuckin right, man.
Best so far because it wasn't a whole bunch of "...america lost its innocence that clear september morning...", "...brought a nation to its knees...", "...some more pussylipped shit..."
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2006-09-11 18:15:09 EDT (#)
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say hey, kid
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-09-11 17:20:41 EDT (#)
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GLAD to see you back.
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-09-11 17:01:33 EDT (#)
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Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2006-09-11 16:43:27 (#)
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fuck anything with 9/11 in the title
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I agree but I usually like Jack's stuff so I'm rating the poster instead of the post. Yes, that's right. I'll admit it.
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2006-09-11 16:43:27 EDT (#)
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fuck anything with 9/11 in the title
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-09-11 15:38:55 EDT (#)
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A Jack sighting.
-Dave
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2006-09-11 09:48:51 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by RyuFu (user info) at 2006-09-11 09:27:25 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-09-11 05:48:13 EDT (#)
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shamless link whore ---> http://www.ubersite.com/m/90913
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2006-09-10 21:11:31 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-09-10 18:55:21 EDT (#)
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Submitted by KindaNews (user info) at 2006-09-10 18:04:28 EDT (#)
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Worth reading.
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2006-09-10 17:20:10 EDT (#)
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A great post.
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2006-09-10 16:33:47 EDT (#)
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Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-09-10 13:41:08 EDT (#)
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Anyone who doesn't approve of this post deserves impalement.
Submitted by fried-green-potatoes (user info) at 2006-09-10 11:39:28 EDT (#)
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Good to see you, Jack. Hope everything's good and your projects are coming along.
Submitted by awesome_face (user info) at 2006-09-10 11:35:57 EDT (#)
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Awesome shit.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-09-10 11:27:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-09-10 11:05:20 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2006-09-10 10:28:41 EDT (#)
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Submitted by LSD420 (user info) at 2006-09-10 10:06:58 (#)
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Fuckin right, man.
Best so far because it wasn't a whole bunch of "...america lost its innocence that clear september morning...", "...brought a nation to its knees...", "...some more pussylipped shit..."
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No, but it did have a smattering of Team America fuck yeah, and a guy called 'Scopes'.
*rolls eyes in that way only people from outside America understand*
still it was a good read.
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-09-10 10:17:50 EDT (#)
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Submitted by LSD420 (user info) at 2006-09-10 10:06:58 EDT (#)
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Fuckin right, man.
Best so far because it wasn't a whole bunch of "...america lost its innocence that clear september morning...", "...brought a nation to its knees...", "...some more pussylipped shit..."