Water bottle showers, and everything else that comes with being in the shit. 0000007932 00000 n It was the largest helicopter insertion the Marine Corps has conducted since Vietnam.
Eating chickens, sheep, eggs, and bread and rice that the afghan army would provide for us so we could eat because we were all out of food. We would dig our foxholes in the rocks on the little ridge lines, burning cases of MRE’s to stay warm. We were busy as hell, but those were still some good times.Oorah 3/6 WPNS. 0000006679 00000 n Then we got the phone call that our Marine had been injured. Everyone scattered like cockroaches when a light comes on. Looking back now it was the best, and most definatley the worst time of my life. Then watched as they passed us by to follow route clearance into the city. 0000004952 00000 n We were attached to Cold Steel (Charlie Co.) And sleeping in trucks while they slept in foxholes in the freezing weather. I was frozen in front of the tv – I couldn’t talk, I couldn’t breathe. Sleeping to the sound of artillery, fire fights and helicopters. After the coldest night of my life we woke up to blistering winds and frost everywhere only for him to look at me and say, “Saints must’ve won, hell just froze over” lol classic.As much of a pog as this makes me sound i am truely proud to say that i was in support for this operation. Sitting around after the first day ended and deciding to rename it unofficially to operation bloody Valentine, standing in an open field in the darkness long enough to see the sun rise fully until supplies that were airdropped were figured out while hearing rumours that the enemy saw us but thought it w as too cold to fight that day. 0000003533 00000 n Start off with a squad of Marines, Afgan fire team and a humvee. I remember we all just wanted to get into the fight as soon as possible. I asked him what he thought about being in the Marine Corps, now that he had a year and a half of it under his belt. 0000032255 00000 n Putting it simply, which is his way, he held up a hand and said that on this side there were a thousand reasons why he wanted to get out. We had waited almost our whole deployment in anticipation for it to kick off. Those Forgotten Bastards gave the enemy hell the entire deployment. And he believes that in taking part in it, he is doing something that matters.
While we had it up and running just waiting on approval with just about all of bravo watchin an RPG comes arching over the wall. Semper Fi!1/6 Laredo (81s) CAAT section. Watched Marines give up warming layers to their buddies even though they were on the brink of hypothermia themselves.Watched a company full of Marines who had never seen combat fight their way through the largest operation since the invasion of Afghanistan like it was what they were born to do.For the rest of my life nothing will ever make me more proud than to say I fought with the “Marjah Marines.”I will never forget the day that the news announced the war in Marjah had begun, knowing that my son was part of that. 0000003330 00000 n