NHdave
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Hey guys, anyone from the current conflict or ones past?
I spent 2006 in Iraq (11b dismount team leader, 4th ID)
guys want to have a discussion about funny army stories, etc..
I would prefer we leave the bad stuff out as I'm sure like any of you who have been through it.
i'll start..
out in Tarmiyah we had just setup an op, and were just sitting around pulling security when this puppy comes jaunting right down the middle of the serpentine of razor wire... (anyone who has been to iraq knows the fate of dogs... as they are like a line of lookouts giving away our position on night patrols/raids) so we watched it for a while, and it just came right in and layed down over in the corner of our area away from everyone. after a while curiousity got the best of me and i opened up some pound cake out of an mre to see if i could get him over to me, he wouldn't come so i just left it on the ground. he waited till i went away and came and ate it. and so it went for a few days. well we were getting ready to go on patrol around the city and the dog gets up, jogs out past out squad and starts running point for us down the middle of the road. other dogs came barking from the ditches and he would just bolt down and attack them and then fall back in as if it was his job, we were stunned! we'd get back from patrol and he would go back to his corner and chill until the next patrol. even after a weeks of this he never wanted affection, wouldn't let anyone pet him etc.. but went on every patrol... we named him 3 bites because whenever gave him food he would eat it in 3 bites or less. Sadly he ended up getting shot during a firefight when we were out, but he became out mascot, and my wife (artist) took a picture of him I sent home and made a stencil of him that we spraypainted on our turrett shield of the humvees (ironically our platoon nickname was "Dog Pound" haha.
I spent 2006 in Iraq (11b dismount team leader, 4th ID)
guys want to have a discussion about funny army stories, etc..
I would prefer we leave the bad stuff out as I'm sure like any of you who have been through it.
i'll start..
out in Tarmiyah we had just setup an op, and were just sitting around pulling security when this puppy comes jaunting right down the middle of the serpentine of razor wire... (anyone who has been to iraq knows the fate of dogs... as they are like a line of lookouts giving away our position on night patrols/raids) so we watched it for a while, and it just came right in and layed down over in the corner of our area away from everyone. after a while curiousity got the best of me and i opened up some pound cake out of an mre to see if i could get him over to me, he wouldn't come so i just left it on the ground. he waited till i went away and came and ate it. and so it went for a few days. well we were getting ready to go on patrol around the city and the dog gets up, jogs out past out squad and starts running point for us down the middle of the road. other dogs came barking from the ditches and he would just bolt down and attack them and then fall back in as if it was his job, we were stunned! we'd get back from patrol and he would go back to his corner and chill until the next patrol. even after a weeks of this he never wanted affection, wouldn't let anyone pet him etc.. but went on every patrol... we named him 3 bites because whenever gave him food he would eat it in 3 bites or less. Sadly he ended up getting shot during a firefight when we were out, but he became out mascot, and my wife (artist) took a picture of him I sent home and made a stencil of him that we spraypainted on our turrett shield of the humvees (ironically our platoon nickname was "Dog Pound" haha.