So i am just sitting around reading the news and i noticed that the death toll in Iraq is 2,035. Compared to the 240 that have been killed here in afghanistan. Its quite amazing if you think about it. We are the best trained army in the world but for some reason we dont know how to fight RoadSide Bombs. They say that the army is going to introduce training to new recruits on how to react to one of those. Now if you have been in a Convoy you will know that there really is no way to react, its all luck. We have found plenty of bombs buried in the road but only because we would stop for a break or a villager would stop us. The ones my platoon has hit have been minor thank god. Nothing like the one on Aug 21st wich ended the lives of 4 great men.
The favored bomb is 2 anti tank mines stacked buried under a road with a pressure switch leading to it, which in our case has been a coke can, to a match box. Now the public gets angry when they hear of us burning bodies, mistreating detainees, well they dont get the whole story.
When Lt Hines was killed we were sent out to capture or kill the enemy who were responsible. Now when those guys were captured there was a lot of emotions involved. If you had to put someone in a body bag that you had just had a conversation with less than 20 minutes ago, how would you act? If it was your best friend, or any friend and you got the guy who did it what would you do? Would you treat him like a person or an animal?
You cant answer that because you have not gone through that, all you can do is sit back and watch CNN and say, " Those soldiers are wrong, they have no right to do that" well excuse me, until you see your buddy burn alive in a truck, WE have every right to do what we want.
The American Public has this problem of watching CNN and believing everything that they are told. They think that CNN cant possibly lie to them. Every time i talk to someone back home i hear, well they said this is happening in your area on CNN. And of course it is totally wrong, but they will argue their point to the death even though CNN is talking about my unit, my platoon, my friends.
I guess no one listens to soldiers anymore, You dont hear the public causing a riot over americans being beheaded on national television. You dont hear the public crying over soldiers who were decapitated by the taliban when their helicopter was shot down. The Americans in that helicopter were already dead, the taliban cut off thier heads. And we get in trouble for Punching Someone in the Chest? Shoving them? What has happend to America?
Im proud to be a United States Infantryman. But at times I am not Proud of America. | 
