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Craziest war story you've heard...
« on: September 06, 2015, 10:29:58 AM »
My friend a truckdriver at the lumberyard, used to be in the service and one mission he had was to be dropped into Iraq and disrupt the communication lines there.  He said they were dropped into the area and were supposed to dig in for the night, but the ground was too hard so instead they found a ditch and hid there.  He said while there, along comes a goat and a boy tending to it not far behind, also a convoy of Iraqi vehicles coming down a nearby road.  They said they were thinking about killing the goat and the boy so they wouldn't be found out, but instead they all took off running westward toward Syria missing their rondevous point.  I think he said it took them 3 days and 40 or 50 miles on foot to get to the safety of Syria at the time. 

He also had one of where he was in Libya where they were doing house to house fighting, and he said his friend came out of one house where he killed about a half dozen enemy, the last one with a pen to the throat cuz he was out of ammo...  I give this guy tremendous respect for where he's been and what he's done.  And he's got some of the most interesting war stories I've ever heard...
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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2015, 10:41:16 AM »
My friend a truckdriver at the lumberyard, used to be in the service and one mission he had was to be dropped into Iraq and disrupt the communication lines there.  He said they were dropped into the area and were supposed to dig in for the night, but the ground was too hard so instead they found a ditch and hid there.  He said while there, along comes a goat and a boy tending to it not far behind, also a convoy of Iraqi vehicles coming down a nearby road.  They said they were thinking about killing the goat and the boy so they wouldn't be found out, but instead they all took off running westward toward Syria missing their rondevous point.  I think he said it took them 3 days and 40 or 50 miles on foot to get to the safety of Syria at the time. 

He also had one of where he was in Libya where they were doing house to house fighting, and he said his friend came out of one house where he killed about a half dozen enemy, the last one with a pen to the throat cuz he was out of ammo...  I give this guy tremendous respect for where he's been and what he's done.  And he's got some of the most interesting war stories I've ever heard...


not saying your friend is making crap up....

but what I have found..knowing quite a bit of Vietnam Vets.....is people that actually took lives do not talk about it....now the modern day Soldier that may be different...but I would think if they have a good heart it would not be something that was easily talked about.




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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2015, 10:42:55 AM »
this guy was a solid guy I don't think he was making crap up... if anything I've forgotten the details of the stories he told me on the long truck trips...  A 155 has to do a lot of damage with a direct strike,  :salute to your dad
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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2015, 11:20:26 AM »
this guy was a solid guy I don't think he was making crap up... if anything I've forgotten the details of the stories he told me on the long truck trips...  A 155 has to do a lot of damage with a direct strike,  :salute to your dad


ehh the old man got off easy(easy being relative of course)....back of the lines...and getting out sooner then most...they let him out due to a hardship case...


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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2015, 11:22:14 AM »
i read a book on tunnel rats... man was that some effed up fighting....
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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2015, 11:27:35 AM »
but what I have found..knowing quite a bit of Vietnam Vets.....is people that actually took lives do not talk about it....now the modern day Soldier that may be different...but I would think if they have a good heart it would not be something that was easily talked about.
I've known decorated combat veterans and I've found this to be true for them all.

Your truck drivers Irag story sounds very much like the story of Bravo two zero
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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2015, 11:30:14 AM »
Hey I wouldn't mess with him when he had a bad day.. he's all tatoo'ed up and wouldnt give you the time of day if you begged for it.....
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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2015, 11:41:30 AM »
Your guy saw way too many movies  :rofl To me he is a pretender.  :police:
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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2015, 11:43:11 AM »
Your guy saw way too many movies  :rofl To me he is a pretender.  :police:
frenchy why you got to start man....
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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #9 on: September 06, 2015, 11:47:35 AM »
See Rule #4
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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #10 on: September 06, 2015, 11:57:59 AM »
Since, as far as whats official, neither US or any other western country had ground troops in Libya i have very hard to see that your buddy have been involved in amy close quarter combat in Libya. And as stated, his Iraq story is just too much Bravo two zero.. I see no reason to take the stories seriously.
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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #11 on: September 06, 2015, 12:02:51 PM »
Sounds like some bad Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. With a ballpoint pen, really? No combat knife? Nothing more practical to bludgeon the guy to death with?

Also, unless you hit the jugular, a pen isn't gonna do toejam.


Sorry man, but it really does sound like your buddy is full of it.
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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #12 on: September 06, 2015, 12:11:36 PM »
there are guys here that have killed others with shovels... don't placate yourself with bulllshit....

I hear you friend, but having served on a commando training camp and participated to some of their training. They don't need a pen in the throat to terminate someone. Knife, riffle stock and various hand to hand neck breaking tricks are the weapons of choice that make 'a pen' very Hollywood like.

As for the goat boy story, trained units don't 'wait it out' in ditches next to a trail/road. And if they someone comes laying perfectly still usually beat running away in plain sight. Sorry I don't buy it, but hey I wasn't there. I heard many stories from Vets trying to make themselves look combat hardened  :salute My neighbor was one of them. B17 gunner from WW2, talked a big game. Got his thumb shot out by a Me109 and it's quite a story how the 109 pass almost ramming his B17 and described everything of the slow motion encounter. Till he showed me a picture of when he got married after the war ... with all his 10 fingers  :rolleyes:

Sadly some Vets despite their service don't have much going on in their life and milk the 'hero card' to feel respected.
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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #13 on: September 06, 2015, 02:44:35 PM »
I have found that most vets who served in combat don't enjoy talking about the actual combat part.  They will go on and on about the other parts of military life, ad nauseum.  I work with a former Abrams tank commander from the 1st Gulf War.  He never talks about actually destroying enemy tanks, though at a cookout he had several beers and finally told about it. 

The human brain is fragile.  Extreme emotional trauma and stress can damage it.  I work near Fort Knox and there are so many of the guys I work with that have PTSD that it is unbelievable.
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Re: Craziest war story you've heard...
« Reply #14 on: September 06, 2015, 05:09:04 PM »
The Iraq story is stolen from what happened to a British SAS squad during Desert storm.  The Libya story is pure bull.  Sorry.
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