Michael's post is jaw-dropping.
But why doesn't he have night-vision goggles? There's no rule against it, is there? Can't we do something about that?

SJT

How about Yon's post versus ...
http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/002181.html

versus ... "Over There"?

versus ... "Abu Ghraib"?

Man. It is just incredible how far the gap reality is from what the MSM feeds us every night. It isn't just wrong. It is crap that they imagine in their fevered brains.

Oh. My. God. If he does not get a Pulitzer... there is no justice. Stephen Bochco should fire that craptastic writer he has and just act out the dispatched Michael writes from Mosul. You can't make up people like the Chaplain, LTC Kurilla and CSM Prosser.

What MEN, eh? And by the way, those are probably some of the oldest men in the battalion. Wait until their youngsters get ahold of the terrorists. Don't be on the 2-4's list.

God bless 'em. What MEN!

Subsunk

Great post by Michael, is more than the msm will ever be able to confront let alone deal with. As to the Gates of Fire, that the Ltc provides this to his troops is more than understandable. He leads from the front by action not words. The book should be mandatory reading at any leadership course or service school. Our troops need as many like the Ltc as we can find. A speedy recovery for him. Lets hope the "perfumed princes" aren't to threatened.

Michael Yon says he doesn't want to work for anyone. He is happy doing it alone. Also, in
an email exchange I cautioned him to remember
that behind that Camera, he was not bullet proof.
(I had had a reporter tell me long ago, that
when he was taking pictures, that he sometimes forgot he was there and could be killed).

Michael's reply was "What, you mean I'm not
bulletproof!!" His sense of humor is something
else.

BTW, in case you missed it, he said this in the referenced writing: Gates of Fire

"Prosser shot the man at least four times with his M4 rifle. But the American M4 rifles are weak--after Prosser landed three nearly point blank shots in the man's abdomen, splattering a testicle with a fourth, the man just staggered back, regrouped and tried to shoot Prosser."

This is not the first time he has brought attention to this. He is not the only one that
knows this, just about anyone that has shot someone with this issued (5.56mm) weapon has said that it has no stopping power. Some have said if the spin rate was increased, it would fragment better. I don't think that is the answer.

I knew this long ago, when it was called the M16, I would continue to shoot, because I knew from experience that if I didn't, I most likely would be killed myself. It just does not have any
stopping power.

When I shoot someone, I don't want the to have
the ability to shoot back. That could ruin you
day.

Only one little discussion about the M4:

http://www.defensereview.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=216

I sure hope the promised replacement, (if they can ever, ever, make up their minds)does a better job.

I'm afraid politics has gotten in the way, again.

Papa Ray
West Texas
USA

Good point. But while the media crows on endlessly about "problems getting better armor to the field" you'll never see the day when they call for better offensive weapons. I wonder to what degree acquisition and fielding is driven by that politically correct point.