No humor here. Nary a laugh. We got this email from one of our readers in Iraq. He’s still there and he’s still fighting the bad guys, no matter what the President says:
What about the Combat units that Obama forgot out here? I say this not thirty minutes after returning from a mission into the red zone in Baghdad.
Last time I checked (let me look at the patch on my shoulder again), I belong to an Infantry Brigade Combat Team, and still roll outside the wire on missions almost every day, with on average three firearms (an M4 rifle, M9 pistol, and M240/M249 machine gun depending on the mission) in full body armor, in the turret of an MRAP, with over one thousand rounds of ammunition within easy reach.
If all the combat units/troops are out of Iraq, can we come home now? Were we forgotten?
I must withhold my name as per the law regarding soldiers speaking of such topics, but feel free to research a unit I can not confirm nor deny I belong to, but is also one of these forgotten units: the 256th IBCT national guard unit from Louisiana. If the war is over and we combat units are no longer needed/no longer here, why do I see Baghdad when I step outside my CHU? Why can’t I turn in my weapons and see my family again?
