AORAone Posted October 28, 2012 Author Share Posted October 28, 2012 Fist I was in kandahar, then we rolled out to Maywand district and set up FOB Ramrod (yeah, worst name ever, i know). Only did the one deployment but I hear they're trying to turn it into a super fob? No idea. It was pretty bummy, Sitting on a humongous Birm for a few weeks while the engineers filled Hesco barrier wall a few square football fields. Fun times man. Thanks Walid, yeah, I took that picture because it happened all the time, but that was the closest a barefoot kid wandered to our convey. No parents around, no other kids, no shoes, nothing. It reminded me of my kids back home, and how even the small shit we take for granted. That place is a mess, and nobody going in their fucking their shit up is going to fix it, not in a hundred years. Edit* here's a shot of this monster Birm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morton Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 I for one prefer that old world hashish over this madness here in the states with bubble and all. When I was in Morocco it was explained to me that bud was for the young men only and that the older smoked hash as it is more mellow, which makes sense to me. As someone who does not really smoke, that bud today is too much, give a guy the heebie jeebies. First time I ever checked out instagram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CILONE/SK Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 While I do not remember you, welcome back. I also took a break from posting when I went to Afghanistan (I was in Patika province) and also Iraq. The oontz is slow, but still better then most other places I have seen. Alot of people have changed their names a few years ago when Raven came thru. I still am not sure of who is who. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AORAone Posted October 28, 2012 Author Share Posted October 28, 2012 Yeah I changed my name during that madness, too. I don't even really see any mods around or anything either, Though I haven't checked the roster or anything. I'm still not sure who's who myself. Morton I've never heard that explanation but it seems legit. I haven't smoked since before my kids were born. Anybody else can't wait for the new episode of walking dead tonight? It's the only tv I've watched in about 10 years. Shits getting interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crocodile Tears Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 There is walking dead thread. That show is bananas. I watched the entire first season 1st night and half of the second. HOOKED http://www.12ozprophet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=135899 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AORAone Posted October 28, 2012 Author Share Posted October 28, 2012 ah thanks for that Croc, will check it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_gacy Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Post more pics, it's interesting, more of a real view of what's going on. Does the military sweat you at all about taking photos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AORAone Posted October 28, 2012 Author Share Posted October 28, 2012 actually a lot of the pics I have I could prob get in shit for posting, I have a top secret security clearance and all, but I wouldn't ever show them. I'll upload some more tonight after walking dead. The military never gave much of a shit about taking photos, just so long as nothing in the photo would compromise operational security. For example, taking pictures inside the TOC (tactical operation center) was probably a bad idea, there is surveillance maps, routes, coordinates and high profile target photos. Those aren't something they want getting out. I have a video of a daisy chained IED taking out two of our vehicles, it was filmed from a helmet camera and if nobody told you, you would think the two guys walking in front of the truck died as the explosion covered the area in a plume of rocks and sand. Shit was crazy but they both survived. You ever see the video on youtube of the reporter giving away soldiers positions during a live broadcast? that's the type of shit the military is really worried about as far as visual media. But most of our cameras and shit were looked at after every mission, especially if we were out inspecting the fucking mess the Rangers made during the night. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walid Jumblat Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Int used to give us disposable cams. They'd take them back, grab the pics they wanted and send the rest back to you. That was before digicams became the norm, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morton Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 ^ taps cane on floor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SystemFailure Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I been in indoor ops that are growin way better fire than that sand shit hmu for a chillout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AORAone Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 been slacking on getting those photos uploaded. I'll prob do it tonight after class. anybody see some crazy shit on Halloween? was pretty quiet around these prats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Back In 88 Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 I for one prefer that old world hashish over this madness here in the states with bubble and all. When I was in Morocco it was explained to me that bud was for the young men only and that the older smoked hash as it is more mellow, which makes sense to me. As someone who does not really smoke, that bud today is too much, give a guy the heebie jeebies. I often feel like I am outside of my body when I burn the weeds. Probably should get on this mellow hash ticket. Oh wait I live in Australia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 FattyB and the meat man are doing swell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AORAone Posted November 3, 2012 Author Share Posted November 3, 2012 Ah, good to hear. Tell them I said cheers, if you haven't already. Have them contact me if possible. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Haven't spoken to them in a minute, but once the sun comes out we should be touching base. No problems. Glad you're home safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AORAone Posted November 3, 2012 Author Share Posted November 3, 2012 Righteous man. I'm trying to get another trade package out their way, and a passaround blackbook. I figured it would be too assumptive to use the same address as it's been about 5-6 years. Is it cool if i PM you my email to give to them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 No problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Welcome home mang More pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AORAone Posted November 6, 2012 Author Share Posted November 6, 2012 More Pics, then Some randomness Our weather man. Rear Security Looks fake, like time stopped Changing out the .50 for the mk19 Not everything was ugly Except the camels Graveyard... EOD taking out some daisy chains, iirc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Crazy shit my dude. Crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griteeth Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 any of you military guys suffer from depression, anxiety, psychotic episodes pre enlistment? I had taken anti depressants in hs for a while and based on that i was medically disqualified permanently, at the time I was sincerely butt hurt but in hindsight it was a correct call because I do not deal with stress pressure or the unknown well. how did you deal wit down time? were there times when you thought at length about your role in the mission, the war, life in general? I suppose most of the time you were extremely busy with routine by design but there must have been down time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AORAone Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 Downtime? -shrug- watch movies, go to the mwr (when we finally got phones, months later) call our families, check emails, sleep, details, KP duty, patrol briefs. Really there was a lot of downtime, if you consider not wearing your entire kit downtime. it wasn't so bad. Lots of books to be read, movies and music being passed around. etc etc. I think we actually saw dark knight rises before it hit the states, and xmen origins. A lot of football games were played before they removed the moondust and put down gravel, and we had a decent sized gym, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 i've meant to make a fist-goes-to-war thread since i got home. i have not done so. i kind of doubt i'll ever get around to it. those graveyards with the tattered flags... part of the AO i was at (spin boldak, SE kandahar/pak border) had rocks like that all over the ground, so when we were doing night missions in black out w/ night vision only we came close to several times to rolling right over them. as far as i know it only happened once. we got out with red light, tried to make the grave look as proper as we could, brushed out our tracks and drove on. it was never intentional. we had enough almost-international-incidents from my unit w/o that shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walid Jumblat Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 I read a bunch of books, sketched and exercised in the downtime...., which was about 90% of my deployment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Shit damn, Walid, thought you'd be able to leave toy status by now? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gucci Mane LaFlare Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 fuck the army nigga! chiraq in this bitch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AORAone Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 I did a lot of sketching too. I think I filled up a few books with them, alas, still not that great myself. hahaha. fist I know what you meeeean bro. We paid a lot of hush money to the locals when honest accidents happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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