Just got this E-Mail From Creech

From::A Recon Marine in Afghanistan
From the Sand Pit it's freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt
between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains , along
the Dar 'yoi Pomir River , watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that
leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for
thousands of miles.
I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to fifteen seconds to
avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the
chiggers and sand fleas, but the scorpions give a jolt like a cattle
prod. Hurts like a bastard.. The antidote tastes like transmission
fluid, but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my
pack.
The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they
are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water.
That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty hunter like me
comes in handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and
storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the
coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where
to drop the hardware. We bash some heads for a while, then I track and
record the new movement.
It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in the snipers
yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for. We are but
days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to
begin.
I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with my boot
on his throat as I spit into his face and plunge my nickel-plated Bowie
knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me, I'm a romantic. I've
said it before and I'll say it again: This country blows, man. It's not
even a country. There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's
no government. This is an inhospitable, rock pit shit hole ruled by
eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know
jobs.
Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the
opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I
forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened,
crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu, if
that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those 'tent cities
of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to
cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.
I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks, and Turkmen and even a
couple of Pushtuns, for over a month-and-a-half now, and this much I can
say for sure: These guys, all of 'em, are Huns... Actual, living
Huns.. They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's ALL they do.. They
have no respect for anything, not for their families, nor for each other,
nor for themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life. They play
polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into human
cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage,
heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. Cavemen with
AK-47's. Then again, maybe I'm just cranky.
I'm freezing my ass off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer is
running out of juice, and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a
few hours. Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor,
Bizarre. Write a letter to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson and that
awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban 'smart.'
They are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the
word they are looking for is 'cunning.' The Taliban are cunning, like
jackals and hyenas and wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless, and when
confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create
nothing and destroy everything else. Smart. Pfft. Yeah, they're real
smart.
They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very
good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be
products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic
lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of
life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he just
gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.
OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon, so I have to get back to my hole.
Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice, but I'm good at
it.
Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off the TV sets and
move on with your lives. The story line you are getting from CNN and
other news agencies is utter bullshit and designed not to deliver truth
but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials.
We've got this one under control. The worst thing you guys can do right
now is sit around analyzing what we're doing over here, because you have
no idea what we're doing, and really, you don't want to know. We are
your military, and we are doing what you sent us here to do.
Saucy Jack
Recon Marine in Afghanistan
Semper Fi
"Freedom is not free..but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your
share".

 

This guy is a real american. I like him!

 

Thank you

Thanks for freezing your balls off for the rest of us JACK drop a full metal jacket and a few rounds for me Good Luck bro and god bless you. Jim Peters

 

thank you

keep up the good fight i appreciate your service thanks.

 

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/freezing.asp

 

was hoping it wasnt false

But remember we have one person on here who is real, was there, got hurt there, working very hard to put his dream together last couple years
dont forget him
remind him once in a while
Trevor Sherwood

 

It says QUOTE= We have no idea if this was written by a soldier in Afghanistan. That said=== Just because SNOPES says its not true,( and they admit they don't know ) A-wipes like YOU jush HAVE to jump on something thats Good and ruin it for us patriots. I can only speek for my self,and it touched my patriotic heart. Go out back and chop some wood! PS THANKS Trevor, Gene Terenzio Sr.

 

THANK you too Will for your service to the USA .

 

Gene I left no comment or opinion in my original post, I left it as a link so people could form their own opinion as to the veracity of the claim. The letter has a history going back 9 years, I was curios as to why they would pen such a letter divulging so much detail about the operation they claimed to be on at that moment, To me this security breach did not make sense and didn't sound like something any of the veterans I know would write, You are not even supposed to write where you are during the operation. Add to that, the descriptions of his locations do not even make sense geographically, Have you ever heard of the term stolen valor? There are some people out there who like to pin medals on themselves without having paid the price, While I'm not a veteran, these people are pissing on the grave of my father (and other vets) who fought and paid the price. My late father was captured during the battle of the bulge and sat in a German prison camp for the rest of the war and was almost starved to death, He sadly suffered Stockholm syndrome while I was growing up and many weekends you would hear him playing German marching music on his record player, Even making excuses like "they didn't have enough food to feed themselves let alone us" He weighed just over 80 pounds when he was freed. My dad never had an opportunity to pen such a letter you have so much undying faith in up above. His parents and fiance (my mom) at times even thought he was dead. Such were his neighbors spreading rumors. So you will have to excuse me mister Terenzio if i don't just accept everything posted on the internet at face value, despite the illusion of flag waving it may appear to be displaying, As far as the chop wood insult, Don't you have some olive trees in Italy to attend to?
Signed
Al Smith
http://www.stolenvalor.com/target.cfm?source=link&sort=order

 

Wood chip

Sorry about your Dad, But that letter like you say WASEN"T giving away the right coordinates, And it dose for me like i said, Warm my heart. And looks like Will's and many others. Want to buy some olives or figs?

 

Thanks

Thanks John, Means the world. Got the center today and it looks great.

As a soldier I won't even guess if this Marine is real because if he is then that would dishonor him and as a brother in arms I could never do that. (I don't know much about afghanistan, just Iraq) but what I can and will say is that conditions do suck, it does get cold in the desert, most of our enemy combatants do hide in the shadows and use roadside bombs as opposed to fighting us head on.

And Will, thats hillarious.