I Was A United States Marine Corps Aircraft FireFighter…
When I Served In Iraq… Occasionally We Would “Trade Jobs”…
One Of My Trades… QRF… Quick Reaction Force…
Sometimes… We Just Sat In The Guard Shack & “Shoot The Shit”…
Sometimes… We Stood Guard @ The Main Entrance Gate…
There Were Cement Barricades That Made Vechiles Zig Zag Slowly In Order To Get To The Main Gate…
99% Of The Times… They Were Military Humvees/Fuel Trucks/Fire Trucks…
They Knew To Drive Slow… They Knew They Shouldn’t Cause Any Highten Emotions @ The Front Gate…
But… Sometimes… We’d Have An Old Beat Up Truck Or Car Or Van Flying Through The Barricades… And We Knew It Was Trouble…
Sometimes We Were Able To Stop Them… Sometimes… Unfortunately… They Got The Best Of Us…
I Can Account 1st Hand How Fuckin’ Scary It Is To See… To Watch An Unidentified Vehicle Flying Towards You… Not Knowing What’s About To Happen…
Obviously… Luckily… I’m Still Here…
But These 13 United States Service Men & Women…
They Didn’t Make It…
Kids…
At The Time When I Served On The Quick Reaction Force… I Was A Corporal… E-4… 22 Years Old…
I Was In Charge Of Kids… 18-21 Years Old… 1 Was Older Than Me… 24… But I Was Higher In Rank…
I Didn’t Lose Any Of My Marines On My Watch @ That Time… But Before & After My QRF Duty… We Lost Marines…
Don’t Know Why We “Got Lucky”…
But With All That Happened On August 26th, 2021… It Just Hit “Home”…
I Just Felt… The Least I Could Do… Is Program Some WorkOuts That Honored These Fallen United States Service Men & Women…
Men & Women Who Were Trying To Save Innocent Human Beings…
So… Thank All Of You…
Thank You For “Suffering” Along Side Me… And Who Will Continue To “Suffer” Along Side Me During These Brutal Hero WODs…
Thank You…
3…2…1…GO!!!
Mando
Sempe Fi…
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