It is reportedly from a Marine recon sniper. I suppose some will debate that, but itr is essentially the same I have heard directly from veterans of Iraq & Afghanistan..
This is an e mail written by a United States Marine Recon sniper.
> 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 them 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 crap 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 Pushtins 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 or for each other or 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 AK47'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
> BS 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.
>
> You wanna help? Buy Bonds America .
>
> Saucy Jack
>
> Recon Marine in Afghanistan
> Semper Fi
>
> CO2 Approved
>
> Very Respectfully,
>
> M/N Robert T Burns 1/c
>
> Semper Fidelis
