Personal Narrative: Return To The Army

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This is my subsequent patrol beyond of the wire, SP* departed at the customary time moving in modified wedge down route New York. The platoon arrived securely at the bazaar and pushed into the positions they would be spending the night. That night I received the assigned to Position E, the primary position in the bazaar. The gunner assumed the controls in the turret while I established sleep/guard rotation, to ensure the team had the opportunity to procure some shut eye. At daybreak, zero six hundred hours I arose, though I didn’t want to. Jumping out of the truck I went off to the washout for the morning’s first relief. After returning to the truck I took the morning’s mandatory pill and washed it down with a bottle of water. Sometime around zero eight …show more content…
The next instance, as I watched the ANA perform their responsibilities, the motorcycle driver shoved the ANA so firm it knocked his helmet off his head. This enraged the ANA Soldier and he shoved back. The civilian flew off his motorcycle, without hesitation the ANA Soldier became relentless with the guy. The Soldier through a hell-marry of punches and kicks, no to mention at one point he even used his M-16 like a bat while pummeling the bijous out of this guy. Grabbing the guy by the nap of the neck, and dragging him fifty feet to theirs CP* at which point I dismounted the truck to go to the same location. While I walked to the ANA CP I could attend to the Soldier bellowing at this guy, as I turned the corner to amble into the CP I seen the ANA Soldier pick up another M-16 and charge the weapon pointing it at the guy. Rushing into the CP I grabbed the weapon and pushed it toward the ground so the Soldier could not shoot him. The Soldier said something I couldn’t understand, obviously, so I informed him I would identify the interpreter on the radio so that we could figure all this

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