John "Shrek" McPhee
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oh i mean it's it's a tragedy we'll be fighting that equipment forever yeah like that equipment just went to iran you know what i mean you know the deal we're iran china the bad actors get all our shit one up it and then we gotta figure out how to one-up them it never fucking ends but the reality is is like this is exactly how i expected it to end my first day in combat even though i loved every day i got rocketed and mortared you know what i mean like
I knew it would end like that.
Interesting.
How did you know?
I mean, I'm just curious.
I just felt like everyone in the team rooms knew.
You know what I mean?
We're getting ready to go to Afghanistan.
We're training.
We're waiting for somebody in the government to do something, you know, because from September to December, there's time in there to fucking get in some reading.
You know what I mean?
Do some training.
Learn some shit.
You know, read the Russian AARs.
What is it?
The Bear Over the Mountain is the fucking Russian book or whatever.
Read that shit and you'll see, like...
We did the same as them.
The only thing that we succeeded over the Russians in Afghanistan was cleanliness, because that's what killed the Russians.
They didn't wash their hands, you know what I mean?