How do you like this war story?2003 Iraq - Me and my men were ordered to to take control of an old, worn hotel full of insurgents. The hotel was 5 stories high and there were sheets and towels covering a lot of the windows so it was quite hard to see if there were shooters in the windows, but that's just part of it.
Me and my men (8 of them) were lying behind a hill about 300 yards away. We spotted out the building with binoculars and some with their M16s.
OF course I saw a couple of bad guys in the windows, but we had to wait for them to be hidden so we could make our move. Well any who, besides all the boring mumbo jumbo, we started to make our way from one cover to the next in hope that we wouldn't be seen by any insurgents.
Suprisingly we made it to the front doors of our destinating without being shot at. That was the plan, to get there undetected. So far so good.
Well, we had to make out way in, so we quickly opened the door and threw three smokes inside and rushed in. I saw one who was leaning on the wall smoking a cigarette and quickly grabbed his AK and I got him twice in the head which quickly disfigured his face with brains and blood that flew seemingly more than normal. There were only two others in the lobby, but they were of course taken care of by my trusty brethern Rusty and Willaims. We check the rest of the lobby and called out, "CLEAR!" We check the rest of the bottom floor the rooms and everything. It was all clear on the bottom, and before we made out way up, we went and got what we could of the ammo left behind.
I went over to the poor soul with half a face blown off from bullets and I grabbed a grenade he had a nice knife that I used later. :P
So we made our way up. The second story, had a couple scared guys that were laying on the floor with their guns in front of them sayings something in their language. We knew they were surrendering so we tied them up and blindfolded them and sent them out to our men waiting in the lobby for captives. It's always good to be on the winning side, whether you had to kill to stay alive or just capture, and it's way better to not have to take a life.
Moving on, 3rd floor was empty ,"CLEAR!"
4rth floor was when it got sticky. We came up the stairs and there was a locked door. None had been locked up to this point, in fact most of the rooms didn't have doors. So this is always a problem, because you don't know what's going to be behind it. But our job was to clear the whole buidling so here we go.
We set a device on the knob, and SGT Flasky called out, "15 seconds"
We all made our way away from the door, and then, "BOOM!"
Smoke is everywhere and wood chips all over the place. We align against the wall awaiting to ambush the room when all of the sudden an insurgent starts screaming, and he runs out into the hallway where we were with his AK and starts shooting everywhere blindly, and SGT Richards blows his shoulder off with his Mossenberg 500 12 gauge. His arm falls to the ground with his gun in hand, and he is still alive and screaming. He reaches for his gun with his other hand and Williams finishes him off with one shot to the head.
We toss some grenades into the room to hopefully finish off anyone left. We make our way in to see some dead bodies with missing limbs and pools of blood all over the place.
I came to one guy and his bottom half was detached and his stomach was visible. He was shaking and still alive so I ended his misery.
On to the fith floor, where a grenade was lobbed at us. Obviously they didn't hold it for seconds before that, because we had to time to throw it out the window. (Normaly we would duck for cover, but the grenade had fallen between us and the nearest cover was ten feet away so SGT Starks made a quick decision on that one).
Well, we eventually finished off the last two guys, which one had another RPG that he didn't use. Not sure why. If he did we would have been killed. Anywho, how's that for a war story?
troublewolf
You need to work on your grammar.
nmbookie
Factually a lot more graphic than accurate. Just to mention a couple:
Grenades don't blow people's bodies apart.
If somehow a person has lost the bottom part of their body, they are not still alive.
When going into rooms on a house search you don't set "devices" on knobs, you kick in the door.
etc.
Nice try, I like your spirit, but you might join the Marines, then try again.
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Thorn in her side
U R 8 R SMTNG! It WAS HORRIBLE!!!
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