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Picked this up on militarytimes.com blog outside the wire. I watched this episode last night as I DVR every Jon Stewart and Colbert show and try to keep up with them.
Even though he is a self-admitted liberal, Jon Stewart is a big troop supporter having went over to the sandbox himself at least once that I know of and has hosted the last two Remind.org For The Troops fundraising comedy events.
This time it is funny to see his inability to stay in shape help the troops.
BTW this does have some foul language and may not be safe for work or around little kids.
So a lot of weird things are happening in the world right now. Osama Bin Laden was killed and quickly dumped into the sea, the Iranians somehow took over our most advanced un-manned spy plane and landed it like they were at a R/C club festival weekend, Kim Jong Il mysteriously croaks of “natural causes”, Putin is no longer the love interest of all of Russia, and now my good friend and ultra smart-ass Chuck from tcoverride.blogspot.com/ is celebrating his birthday in Afghanistan, way to close to the Pakistan border.
Doesn’t he know he is tempting fate like he did in Iraq when he danced a jig on that wire he saw on the bridge and look where that got him. They are coming after you Chuck, the Skull-n-Bones society has a hit on you, the Smoking Man knows all about you and is about to make his first appearance since the X-files were on to come and get you. The dude that always controlled everyone and everything in every season of 24 but we never saw knows where you are.
Dude, you have pissed off too many people in the world, tempted fate too many times, and been insubordinate in the eyes of your superiors more times than they can count. Get out of there and come home before you either become the Thursday night special of Mullah Omar himself or they plant an IED in your favorite port-o-john and finish the job of turning you from a rooster to a hen with a 9-volt battery charge.
And if you just can’t get out of there, well do your best and give it a 110% effort of continually pissing off every single person over there that you don’t like. This could include higher-ranking military leaders, the Afghan Army, Afghan Police, Afghan Border Police, Pakistani military, contractors working on the FOB, DA Civilians, local Afghan Nationals, coalition partners, your peers, and hell even your subordinates. Last by not least, every single reporter, wannabe reporter or fat, lazy, stupid picture-taking, donation begging thai-boy loving waste of oxygen you ever come in contact with.
We may be the only Superpower left, but North Korea definitely has their dance moves down pat. We need Paula Abdul and Robin Antin to start advising the DoD.
That is what we called it, the Afghan Crud. Everyone gets it, I got it, and some will have it a couple of times during their tour. There is no avoiding it, so you just have to be ready to take it head on and deal with it. I got mine less than 2 months into my tour, and was glad to have it quick and be beyond it. Of course I did enf up getting it again.
Stars and Stripes has a grotesque but funny story about soldiers getting the “crud” in Afghanistan today.
A virus is moving through the men of this unit, a Security Force Assistance Team assigned to mentor members of the Afghan National Civil Order Police. The blitz bug puts them down for a day or two. It is short, violent, and — to the still-healthy — pretty funny.
“Trantham!” someone yells, laughing. “Is it bile, or Gatorade, or what?”
It is an amazing fight and pretty cool to watch our ISAF forces get the upper hand on the Taliban and whip them up. Of course it isn’t as exciting as an actual battle since it is on Twitter.
Yes ISAF has finally started to figure out the IO (Information Operations) fight and how to counter an enemy whom is very successful at this unique front in the War on Terror. For many, many years they have been winning over public opinion with their lies and dis-information. As evident from the link above we can see that ISAF is now figuring out how to counter them and inform the world of the truth. Amazingly it happens in less than 140 characters at a time.
