Armadillo Page #9

692

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- It would be a lame way to go home.

- Right.

693

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we're gonna see Frederiks' leg.

694

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He has to show us.

695

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- What's up?

- Turn around.

696

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way to go, man!

697

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- Good to see you, Grejs.

- You, too.

698

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- So, are you hooked up with Brits?

- They are all bloody Afghans.

699

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- Even some Taliban.

- Really?

700

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Actually, one came in with eyes

covered and his hands tied yesterday.

701

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- If you go back inside, we'll come in.

See you inside.

702

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- Hi.

- Good to see you.

703

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- A well-placed shot afterwards.

- Brilliant.

704

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The bullet entered here

and was sticking out of my ass.

705

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- They had to dig it out.

- Cool.

706

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I totally forgot about the pain

because the chopper flew like this.

707

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I don't know if you heard,

but lby got four with a grenade.

708

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- They were moaning.

- I don't know how many it killed.

709

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But three of them

were lying in a pile.

710

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You could only see an ear and the left

side of the head of one of them.

711

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The rest was hanging off him.

Two of them were underneath him.

712

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I thought, "what the f***?"

They were on top of each other.

713

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Another was under a log,

and another was farther away.

714

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- He was crawling on the ground.

- No, he wasn't.

715

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So we hit the jackpot in that ditch.

716

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Okay, guys.

717

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Bye.

718

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I've got two things for you.

You definitely get the Horse.

719

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- Thanks a lot.

- You deserve it.

720

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You fought with us and with Special

Forces. Super ... Damn fine job.

721

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Listen up. I was questioned

by the MPs this evening.

722

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Apparently someone called home

and told their parents -

723

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- that we liquidated

wounded people -

724

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- and piled up the dead, to take

pictures of ourselves as heroes.

725

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And that I personally returned

and killed some wounded Talibans.

726

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People have also said that we laughed

about this during our debriefing.

727

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The parents ... or this mother has

contacted Operational Command -

728

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- and asked if that is how

we deal with things here.

729

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What bothers me the most

right now ...

730

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... is the question of loyalty.

I have to know -

731

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- if anyone here believes

that this is what happened.

732

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Does anyone honestly believe that?

Yes .. .?

733

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If I had listened to our debriefing

and the sequence of events -

734

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- I would have thought

it was extremely ... delicate.

735

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I could understand if outsiders, who

weren't there got that impression.

736

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We were still on a high afterwards.

737

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You have to take that

into consideration.

738

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It was an extreme experience,

so we used extreme words.

739

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If the press makes a case of this,

and people think we're psychos -

740

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- well, let them think so.

They weren't there, they didn't see it.

741

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They weren't there,

but we know what happened.

742

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Let them talk.

They weren't there.

743

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If they make a case out of this,

we'll be suspended -

744

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- and then we'll be blowing bubbles,

and that's it until we go home.

745

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And we'll go down in military history,

apart from those who knew us -

746

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- as the guys who f***ed up.

Anyone who's named in this case -

747

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- including myself,

Daniel and Signaler -

748

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- can look forward to a long session

with the whole military circus.

749

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I can't say:

"You weren't there, man" to that.

750

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I believe that Signaler and Daniel had

the balls to do the right thing -

751

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- at the right time.

752

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To proceed the way they did

with two wounded, one near miss -

753

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- and three men with holes

in their uniform and so on ...

754

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To walk up and shoot ... Had I seen

movement, I would have fired, too.

755

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And it only took Daniel or Signaler

to point under the log and say:

756

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"One here, one there."

757

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That was enough for me

to flip to automatic and shoot.

758

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I didn't feel like sticking my head

down to someone with a gun.

759

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And yes, it was touch and go.

760

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But in my world you do what you do.

If you have the strength not to shoot -

761

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- because you realise that the

movement is not that of a weapon -

762

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- but a surrender or whatever . .. If

you have the strength to realise this -

763

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- you don't shoot, of course,

but had I been there -

764

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- I would also have fired, and

I did fire, because I wasn't sure.

765

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That was enough for me.

766

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I think it's hard for people at home

to understand how ...

767

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- How the decision is made?

- How you can just take a life.

768

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You have to be here

to understand it.

769

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This place is whacked, after all.

It's a f***ed-up country.

770

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No doubt about it.

771

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