We worked with the Marines for a short while and were continually pulling casualties out of one company. We had the occasion to land at their CP and shut down for a while. My AC, who had been in the Cav in a previous life chatted with a platoon leader for a while. When we took off, he told us what he had found out. The Marine company had been in this same location for over a week. Every night they sent out ambushes and every morning their ambushes came back, regular as clockwork. And every day they took casualties coming back from the ambushes. Let's see. Ambush patrols going out same time every day, same trails, back in at the same time on the same trails. I felt sorry for some Marines, individually they were great guys, but I wasn't impressed with the leadership in this unit.
Rotorwash
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We get heavier as we get older because there is a lot more information in our heads. So I\'m just really intelligent and my head coudn\'t hold anymore so it started filling up the rest of me. That\'s my story and I\'m sticking to it.
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