It's official...

[Ndnsoldierboy]

The coyote used to freak the inner city blacks out when we went training here in the states. The coyotes would howl and yip at dusk and night and it actually scared blacks who never heard a coyote before. They thought it was a monster, but they would get used to it making all that noise after awhile. I would just shake my head and keep my opinion too myself.

[Ndnsoldierboy]

I picked this shirt up in Afghanistan 2011. Combat Engineers in Kabul.

[Ndnsoldierboy]

It's now been 4 years since I retired from the military as of today 30 April.

I almost forgot. My M-4 carbine rifle in the photo had a peculiar name. Her name was, "Mutton Hoof". I named her after I met the most beautiful NDN woman on the planet. A Navajo NDN I met in the 90's. She was from New Mexico. She was a USAF veteran and even liked metal. We lost contact cause I was on deployments and she went to college. I hope she is doing well. Mutton Hoof was the most fun NDN I met.

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Me and my Great Grandfather. I don't remember who made this but I like it a lot.

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My beaded bag that carries my eaglebone whistle that I received for going to Operation Desert Storm with the 1st Marine Division in 1991. My great uncle gave it too me, he was a World War II veteran in the Army.

[Ndnsoldierboy]

My Baby. Mutton Hoof. Afghanistan 2003-04.



My M-4 carbine, Mutton Hoof in Iraq 2005-06. Mutton Hoof was always there for me. She will always be my baby.



M-14 in Afghanistan. 2004. She was assigned too my squad and carried by one of my soldiers. She is made of wood and metal. She had a stamp on her on the top of the barrel that was from 1967. She may have been in Vietnam, as it was an old rifle. But very effective for long range shooting. The round used was a 7.62mm.




Another M-14, this one was used in Iraq 2005-06 and converted with plastic shoulder stock, pistol grip and an ACOG scope, with a picatinny rail system. Ammo used was also 7.62 mm.

[Ndnsoldierboy]

NSB at the top of Mount Sinai in Egypt 2001. This is where Moses received the 10 Commandments. It was Hells kitchen hot there. The Burning Bush is down at St. Catherine's Monastery at the bottom of the mountain.

I was with the US Army's, 25 Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii when this photo was taken.

[Ndnsoldierboy]

NSB in Iraq July 2006.

Operation: Fallen Eagle. Going out to search for the 101st Airborne Division soldiers that got captured that day. In the background you can see a HUMVEE that got hit by an Explosive Form Charge, EFP. It is a explosive flat piece of brass that when set off, that forms into a large bullet and burns extremely hot and it goes through glass, metal and flesh. The soldiers who were in the HUMVEE survived the blast.

This mission did not end well though, the soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were all later found dead.

[Ndnsoldierboy]

Added a few more patches to my veterans vest. A South Park Afghanistan and Iraq patch and my Blood type identifier.



I wore it to a Veterans event at the VA Hospital last weekend in Spokane, WA. Tribes from Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington had a gathering and read the names of all NDN veterans who passed away this year and last year.

[Ndnsoldierboy]

It's been five years now since my retirement. Been a bit sick the past month. Trying to get well. Coffee and Newports aren't helping much. Hope our weather gets better in the Pacific Northwest soon. We went from snow to rain. Oh well, at least I'm not sleeping in the snow like I was in Afghanistan.

Retirement is good.

Task Force Whiskey Echo Bravo, out.

[renia58]

Ndnsoldierboy


It is interesting what you write, I am impressed