This is an excerpt from an email I got from a friend, it's supposed to
be written from a Marine
over there, of interest to this list only cuz of the reference to a
"hand held" ....wonder what he could be talking about, some special
military type Newton, (I doubt it) but I hope it isn't running WinCE.
If anyone wants the complete email, I'll send it off list.
Greg
>>
>> > > Just outside of Ab Gach, in the northwest
>> > panhandle of Afghanistan
>> > > between
>> > > Tajikstan and Pakistan.
>> > >
>> > > November 11, 2001
>> > >
>> > > Bizarre,
>> > >
>> > > It's (expletive) 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 (expletive) 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.
>
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