can we have a war stories thread good, bad, whatever i'm

>>30650041
>Be me
>Join the Army
>Wait in line 95% of the time
>Deploy
>Get attacked
>Just get yelled at to stay down
>Go to Chow
>Come home
>GI Bill

>>30650041
I was in Iraq in 2010 during the Last OIF and operation New Dawn, my platoons job was QRF and EOD escort. It wasn't very bad, worst that happened was a set up where we rolled out to investigate when a supposed IED went off and the insurgents detonated another when we got there. My LT got hit in the femoral artery and I controlled the bleeding as we got out of the area.

We also provided security when an insurgent shot down a Kiowa helicopter, that was kinda funny because the Iraqi army was hellbent on catching him alive so they where chasing him around the desert throwing flash-bangs from an up-armored Humvee, that shit went on for hours until he ran out of ammo.

I've gotten mortared too, it wasn't frightening but closest one hit like 150 meters away.

Being bored all the time and told to wait, treated like children the entire time.

When you finally move up in rank and are responsible for junior soldiers, you end up treating them like children because God dammit privates gonna act like children until they man up. OH you are still babied even if you have stripes since muh platoon sgt

>>30650551
>femoral artery and I controlled the bleeding
How the hell do you do that?

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>>30650041
>be me
>muslim
>don't really buy into religion
>hate dietary restrictions
>hate the social bullshit
>parents get progressively "conservative" as I get older.
>turn 18 one month after graduation
>go to recruiter
>"oh you speak Dari? We can work with that"
>enlist 09L
>fuck around in Afghanistan x2
>discharge
>college

And thats where I am now. Maybe not the best story, but it got me out of a terrible place and kept me from being shipped back to the old country. Thinking of going Officer after my BS. Also, no longer muslim. Fuck that noise.

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>>30650669
People like you are going to rescue this fucking country from itself. Godspeed.

>>30650826
Thanks Anon

>>30650640
>I'll take a TQ for 400 Alex.

/r/i ng the 'hot ass' greentext

>>30650669
>ship back to the old country
>09L
>parents overbearing
Hijabi detected. Leave here woman

>>30651266
Edgy

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In the Infantry, you are built up mentally and physically to the extreme. You achieve a point where you are begging to fight. You adopt the mentality, "I don't care who the enemy is. Just give me a rifle and point me in the right direction."

When we arrived in combat, we were chomping at the bit. As soon as rounds were fired at us, everybody tripped over each other trying to shoot back. We couldn't wait to get into the middle of it. We loved every second of every day.

Don't trust these PTSD homos who were 11B. They loved every second of combat.

>>30652124
This

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>>30650640
Dude that spanish guy at the Boston bombing held a guys femoral artery with his fingers until he got them to paramedics. Pic very related

Just going off my experiences on /k/, most war stories are about rank shits and epic fuckups

>>30650551

10th Mountain?