Back from Funeral Trip
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:42 pm
Just got back to the ponderosa today and I am beat. The funeral went well, it was a very hard time for me personally. Losing a fellow friend and brother-in-arms is a painful thing--I found out the facts of Chris' death and it was not pretty..there were some basic breakdowns in procedure and communication. The team leader avioded protocol for conveneience and did not inform the team of the new route until mobile. This created confusion and ended up seperating the team by over 100 yards between vehicles--this is a big no no when transporting a VIP, and Chris' vehicle at the time of the ambush was the only guns in the fight for over 3 minutes, by then, Chris' Tahoe got a direct hit from a RPG.
The team leader has been dismissed and replaced (with my strong recommendations) with a good guy I worked with in Africa. The last thing I want is a repeat of what happened to Chris to happen to another good soldier, who depends on the wisdom of his commanders in the field to protect his life.
I am still angry over the incident, and for the average civilian to understand my frustration is hard, but I know some of you out there have seen the elephant and know how combat is. An eyelash is the difference between life and death...
Good to be back home..I am going to get busy training and hitting the range often--have some invites to teach at a few classes in April..in the meantime, I have decided to scale down the AR "hogwild" hunt, to just a open house for shooters to come out to my place and train and kick back, maybe shoot a few hogs..we can declare a "JI-HOG" on the pest!!
I will put up a sign up sheet in the next few weeks for all who want to attend....
Salute....
The team leader has been dismissed and replaced (with my strong recommendations) with a good guy I worked with in Africa. The last thing I want is a repeat of what happened to Chris to happen to another good soldier, who depends on the wisdom of his commanders in the field to protect his life.
I am still angry over the incident, and for the average civilian to understand my frustration is hard, but I know some of you out there have seen the elephant and know how combat is. An eyelash is the difference between life and death...
Good to be back home..I am going to get busy training and hitting the range often--have some invites to teach at a few classes in April..in the meantime, I have decided to scale down the AR "hogwild" hunt, to just a open house for shooters to come out to my place and train and kick back, maybe shoot a few hogs..we can declare a "JI-HOG" on the pest!!
I will put up a sign up sheet in the next few weeks for all who want to attend....
Salute....
