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Ndnsoldierboy


It is interesting what you write, I am impressed

[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.

[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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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While in the jungle of Panama, we saw lots of bugs. Killer bees, army ants, mosquitos, flies, and chiggers. Tiny blood suckers that burrowed in your skin once they crawled on you. They were nasty. We had Marines got medavac cause they had so many of them in their skin. I used the bug repellent the Marine Corps issued us. For the most part it worked. I had some bites on me, but not enough to be taken out of the jungle when we were on patrol.

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The anaconda was around 13 feet and the Cobras were 3-4 feet. The Akamada was 8 feet. Bushmaster and the Fer D' lance were 3 feet long. Rattler was about 4 feet.

*** countries of Panama, Okinawa, Iraq and here in the states. ***

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My Brother killed a 12 foot cobra in Saudi Arabia back in1990. Him and another Marine were digging a defensive fighting position, the cobra was under the sand when it came up. He killed it, skinned it but could not keep the skin as it was starting to smell bad, and was ordered to throw the skin away.

I ran into a few Cobras in Iraq in the spring of 2006 west of Baghdad. We were looking for weapons caches and in a small canal I saw two cobras. It looked like they were dancing. But, it was two male cobras and they were in a fight for a female cobra. They were intertwined and constantly pushing each other down until one gave up. Could not stay to see who won the fight. We had other things to do.

Ran into a couple rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths, Fer D' lance, bushmasters, one anaconda, unknown snake in South Korea, and a even Nile Monitor in Egypt, that was about 6 feet long until he got ran over by a local taxi driver in Sharm el Sheik. That was a big lizard.

***Forgot to add Akamada and Habu in Okinawa.

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hahaha then the commercial comes on..."Built ford tough"

great story NSB

Being in the frontlines we saw lots of stuff.
I will post more later. Animals in the desert and jungle mountains and even the ocean.