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No dip here, but Afghan pizza was actually pretty decent in 2012. A couple SF guys in the rotation before me evidently taught the locals how to make pizza using their Afghan flatbread. It was legit delicious. The camp ODA had a good relation with the locals, so once a week a couple of them would come by the camp to sell pizza for like a dollar a slice, which is probably more money than they'd ever make at their usual farming jobs. Dronechat: UAV's were a hoot. I was (and am) a pog, so I spent most of my time in the TOC. One time in Khost province (at least I think it was Khost), we had a drone in the vicinity of reported insurgent activity, so it was retasked to take a look. We didn't expect much, because the report came from an ALP checkpoint and those guys were unreliable to say the least. If they reported 25 enemies, it might be 5. At most. Anyway, the UAV actually locates a platoon-sized enemy element. Our drone was unarmed, so my guys called in helicopters from the nearest available SOTF. By the time the helos reached their target, the insurgents were in a nearly bare field, with only one big tree for cover. And you better believe they used it for cover. Watching on the drone, it was unreal. Probably 15 dudes trying to hide behind one tree, while the rest wedged themselves into a ditch. RIP tree. And insurgents.
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Zeris posted:The PRT who lived on our base used to drive into the bazaar with their old uparmored HMMWVs because gently caress the national guard right, they were the last to get MRAPs. One day the crew of one truck came home with headaches from the suicide bomber who detonated himself next to their vehicle in the bazaar. All good, but the truck rolled in our gate covered in strips of Afghan manflesh. By month six we had well gone into crazyland. We tossed bits of flesh at each other from the truck. I found a shred of a nose, a vertical strip that included one nostril. I still have the multitool I used to pick it up and chase around my buddy with, like kids in a sprinkler. jfc, that's some COL Kurtz Apocalypse Now poo poo.
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Thanks, Rev maynard, for making this thread, because it made me remember my all-time favorite intel sperg story. Which ties in with drone chat. Man, I actually forgot about this, which is a small personal tragedy. At one of my fobs, in maybe 2013, the S2 guys would print out screenshots from their favorite ISR feeds. Mostly drone, sometimes gunship. The best of these came from a Switchblade. For those unfamiliar, the Switchblade drone is a tiny flying bomb. It can fit in a soldier's backpack, has a range of maybe ten kilometers, and was usually used by our guys to defeat an ambush when they were unable to maneuver. It was also used extensively for long-range engagement, as it could fly 10 km. https://www.avinc.com/uas/view/switchblade On this magical occasion, a SOF team was using one to scope out the path ahead. They observed a couple of insurgents planting an IED in the road, but the dudes evidently heard the UAV's motor and got spooked. They hopped on a motorcycle and hauled off. The SOF guys decide to go for the kill. Mind you, the Switchblade can fly from about 60 to 100 mph. Those insurgents were just delaying their fate. But they were treated to the pants-making GBS threads sight of a little remote controlled rocket chasing them down. The last frame of the ISR feed, taken right before it exploded and printed out for all to see, was of the motorcycle's backseater looking over his shoulder in horror at the rapidly approaching drone. On the one hand, as a taxpayer, I'm sure we spent more money than those dudes were worth to kill them. On the other hand, we all had a good laugh when the intel LT explained what we were looking at. Good times. Truly, GiP has become our internet VFW.
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Slim Pickens posted:Oh man, how soon can this be FOIA'd/leaked by some Snowden wannabe? There's gonna be so much good poo poo coming out in the next couple decades. God, I can't wait to see the whole video. If the original classification authority has any spark of humanity in their heart, they'll declassify it and put it on a .gov site. And watching Afghan soldiers do anything was a hoot. Hope one of you guys got that on tape. iraqijumpingjacks.gif
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