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Comment preview: My memory isn't very clear, not quite sure if that's a result of Traumatic Brain Injury or the amount of Jack Daniels I've drank since coming back from my second tour in Iraq (probably a combination thereof). But one thing I do remember more than anything ....
Comment preview: We got issued M14's on my second tour to Iraq in 2005. They were right out of the old crates, packed with straw like material and the bolt assembly slathered with what looked like gear grease. (aka, they were OLD) At the range in Kuwait before moving out t ....
Comment preview: Never Have I Ever with a friend just back from his second tour of Iraq. Tom was pretty proud of his time in Iraq and had several nicks on his arm- a *tally* of his freaking kills. So you know how if you've done something, you take a drink? It goes down lik ....
Comment preview: TLDR: Stabbed a guy in the throat who was trying to strangle me. Former Navy Corpsman (medic) here. On my second tour in Iraq I found myself treating an insurgent who was shot multiple times in the gut. He had weak vitals and had lost a lot of blood so ....
Comment preview: I don't think anyone, including Ron Paul really thinks he has a huge chance of winning. I think he is trying to achieve two goals, shifting peoples political philosophy in the country and shifting the GOP towards libertarianism. I think about my own shift ....
Comment preview: "Hollywood good looks might have gotten him a modeling or acting gig, but ultimately it was the battlefield that called to 23-year-old soldier Garrett McLead, who died Wednesday in Iraq. GI McLead PHOTO McLead, a Sergeant in the Army's 2nd Battalion, 35th ....
Comment preview: Battlefield never did that to me, but it reminds me of a funny story. The first time I played CODMW, I had been home from my second tour in Iraq about a week and a half. In the "warpig" mission, where you have to secure a marine tank, when you enter that ....
Comment preview: "I feel like alot of people have been asking "Where are the majority of Muslim voices? Why do they not speak up?" So for you all (and a bit for myself), I'm sharing my own story." I am on my second tour in Iraq, and doing all I can to bring this conflict t ....
Comment preview: I friend of mine from high school came back from his second tour in Iraq. He was no longer the same upbeat person he used to be. PTS and the drugs he self medicated with destroyed him. Anyways we were having a summer party having a good time and he goes ....
Comment preview: During my second tour in Iraq we had a pretty massive car bomb go off at one of our checkpoints. I was put on the clean-up detail (detail is an Army term for "job") and me and my buddy were given a group of 5 Iraqis that worked "for" us and a bunch of med ....
Comment preview: I've bartended in the same town for many, many years and see the same people at every bar I work at -- my very favorite regular is a Vietnam vet with severe PTSD, early onset dementia and a serious drinking problem. Very few people are kind to him and he's ....
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