The Official wish me luck in Afghanistan thread
Someone died and they need a replacement pronto. I volunteered 8 days ago. Today I cleared. Friday the 5th I start mobilization. March 21 Camp Aderbury. March 24 in beautiful downtown Gardez City, Afghanistan. 6-12 month assignment. No drinking, no strip clubs. God help me.
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Let me be the first to say my friend - good luck and keep your head down.
GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.
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Good luck, and stay safe.
CR
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
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best of luck, and have fun. my cousin did, so it's not impossible. :)
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Good Luck, thank you, and for Gods sake make it back in one phyiscal and mental peice
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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Stay safe.
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Be safe and bring democracy and prosperity there, if it's at all possible.
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Be well. Do good. Keep in touch. Stay safe!
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Oh no. Major, please keep your head down, be brave but not foolish, and STAY SAFE. Please do not end up in a coffin.
Drop us a report any time.
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
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Best to you, MRD. Come back unharmed.
Ajax
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"I have no words, my voice is in my sword." --- Shakespeare
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." --- Jack Handey
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Don't die.
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There's not much I can add to what has been said. But yeah, stay safe.
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Good luck and keep safe.If you find OBL, give him a kick in the groin for me.
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Good luck mate.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
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Best of luck.
Now, where is HoreTore?
So, is there any chance will you have access to Internet & computers on the base?
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Make sure you come back safe, I still find your name amusing no matter how many times I see it.
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Good luck and stay safe
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be safe and tell me how it is........ ima end up there soon enough.
oh say hi to my cousin for me though you appear to be a bit too upper echelon for him.
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Go, but return.
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God Bless and keep you safe, and may your family cope successfully in your absence.
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Be safe, man.
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Be safe, be strong, and don't forget to drop us a line when you aren't cruising for pr0n on the base laptop.
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Yeah. You're old enough to know what to do, my friend. Stick with the guys who know what they're doing, stay away from the idiots, do the right thing - even when nobody's looking - and get back here safe and sound. God Bless.Good luck and keep safe.
Be well. Do good. Keep in touch.
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Thank you for your service to our nation.
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Good luck stay safe! Try to enjoy the sights and to ignore the smells.
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln
Four stage strategy from Yes, Minister:
Stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
Stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do.
Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now.
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Thank you MRD. Stay alert, do right by us and the Afghans, make the most of the experience, check in with us when you can and come back in one piece.
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Good luke but help it keeping you safe.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire.
"I've been in few famous last stands, lad, and they're butcher shops. That's what Blouse's leading you into, mark my words. What'll you lot do then? We've had a few scuffles, but that's not war. Think you'll be man enough to stand, when the metal meets the meat?"
"You did, sarge", said Polly." You said you were in few last stands."
"Yeah, lad. But I was holding the metal"
Sergeant Major Jackrum 10th Light Foot Infantery Regiment "Inns-and-Out"
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Yikes, stay safe
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Hey, random thought: make up a plain vanilla Facebook page so we can check on you. DoD lets GIs on there now. Don't need to post anything - you might not have time - but just logging in once a week or so will let us know you're OK (your last login date will be visible to us). That was the "no muss, no fuss" way I checked on my Sgt-son in Iraq (only we used MySpace).
Just an idea.
Be well. Do good. Keep in touch.
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Good luck and stay safe. The Org will keep your space warm.
Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
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