Reply #2: Damn, this sh#t pisses me off. [View All]

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"Dozens of soldiers and one donkey, rented for $10, lugged more than 7,000 pounds of food and water from the valley floor to their mountaintop ridge Thursday. It had been air-dropped by coalition aircraft because no helicopters were available to deliver it closer."


Where are all the helicopters? In Iraq, I'm sure.


"The extra supplies mean the troops get 12 bottles of water to drink per day, instead of eking by on five or six as they had been. They also now have two MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) food packs this day, instead of the one they’d been limited to earlier.

“I hate this place. You can drop the devil here and he’d hate it,” said Staff Sgt. Brian Rice, 39, of Eugene, Ore. “I’m pissing orange and they want me to shave with my drinking water. Ain’t gonna happen.”