Scott Jones
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And we went out on a little cheeky KLE to, I think it was Firebase Cobra, but I think now they call it FOB Tinsley, just at the southern end of Shahidi Assas.
So we went out.
That was the first nursery patrol thing we did.
We just went out there, low speed, landed inside a FOB, had a meeting, and left.
Two or three days later, we went back and we actually were going to fight the Taliban in the valley.
First time outside the wire.
I'm the lead helicopter in Afghanistan.
What company is this?
Charlie.
Charlie.
Yeah.
Shout out to the Wolfpack.
And so rotation 20, it's called like the people refer to it as the pack up trip because they've done bulk trips and it was a trip where like Afghanistan's winding down.
So there's no more schools being built, no more mosques being built.
It's just-
We're packing up the base and Charlie Company, your platoon is to go out there and kill these cunts because they're coming into Tarrant Cout and trying to bomb us on the way out.
They're trying to shoot down the planes on the way out knowing we're leaving, right?
So retrograding the base.
But we still had a job to do and I think that it makes my โ
My reason for serving in that conflict, a lot easier to justify maybe than some others whose job was to build a school or a school for Afghan women or a mosque where if the woman went to the school, they're going to get their head cut off.