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[jonathan83]

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This post has been edited by jonathan83: Feb 23 2006, 02:30 AM

[cupcake]

iraqi police have been compromised...this shit is going downhill.

just a year ago they were fine (rough around the edges, but loyalties were there). I asked my freshly deployed best friend if they were totally compromised, or if it's a regional thing:

Not sure. A truckload of them opened fire on one of our convoys a few days ago. In an IP truck and wearing IP uniforms. Needless to say, they didn't last long. We roll out with .50 cals on all trucks, so there wasn't much left of the truck or the gunmen after it was all over.

IP's can't be trusted. Some of them even taunt us when we're at a few Police stations. One was full of Mahdi militia moonlighting as IPs. We bring SAWs into those stations now, instead of our M4's.

IP's are also stupid. They don't pay attention to what they're doing. I almost lit a truckload of IP's with the .50 cal a few days ago becuase one of them was carelessly pointing his RPG at our convoy as we were passing. Idiot.

As far as the IEDs all over the place, the threat is there, but I've not heard about many going up recently. We get intel assessments every morning when we go to Brigade to put in our mission plans and we see generally 3 or 4 a day in our sector. Something must be going on tonight because theres been non-stop jet traffic flying over us since about 10am. more apaches have been seen as well. Today we were off, so I've not been out of the wire.

I did my 5th mission last night and it was a night mission. Thankfully, it was pretty boring.

We're going to an Iraqi police station tomorrow that's known for its hostility. Should be interesting. They're still mad at us for taking away some weapons they shouldn't have had.

I found a brand new copy of Steinbeck's East of Eden in the free book pile, I just started it, pretty good book.

Oh, and stop worrying DAD.

Rob