August 1, 2003
22:30
Infonick KIA due to mortar attack
Damnit! Yesterday during the final assault of the hodgies on our firmbase, I got killed in a mortar attack. One of the SNCOs made a bad call and sent my fire team and I in trhough a dangerous direct route to give back up to a supporting company at the front of the base and a mortar blew us up. That sucked. We hadn’t even fought that long. The field exercise was pretty cool over all (5 or 6 days long), but that last part sucked. It was sort of cool earlier though. I was manning a mchine gun post with a guy and we received orders to fire on snipers, which turned out to be SEAL snipers. We killed them though. It is sort of satisfying to know that you could have killed a SEAL had you had real rounds. At first we thought that they were hodgies in US uniforms. Yeah, in the field exercise, we sort of worked with the SEALs. The SEALs do some crazy training.
Sorry guys, didn’t mean to scare you. It makes me feel pretty good that you guys care that much though. But yeah, now mortars are my biggest enemy, not ceilings anymore.