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Originally Posted by RecondoJoe
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There’s no such thing as a confirmed kill. A lot of times you don’t even know if you actually shot someone or not. Had someone fire an RPG at me once when I was behind a 240B. RPG was way over my head, but directly at my humvee. Instantly disengaged the safety and returned fire. It had come from behind a parked car.
Didn’t give it much thought until a few months later when the USA decided they would write checks to pay for collateral damages. One of the houses we stopped at was the same house where I had shot up that car. The man probably had no clue I was the person who shot it up.
He was angry, and I started getting angry when the translator said the guy implied that we shot it for no reason which irked me because I knew who ever owned that car was in on it and they tried to kill me. I got mad and left the house. Here we are handing my tax dollars to someone who tried to kill me. A few moments later, our translator comes out and says that the guy confirmed that I had shot and killed 3 of his sons during that incident.
Had no clue. I felt really confident that I had aimed in the right area for where the RPG came from, and it’s like.... you would think that who ever fired it died, but when you don’t see a body, you don’t believe it. Turns out I got an entire trio of insurgents without a clue in the world.
Have a lot of moments like those where I never know for sure whether or not I hit the person I was shooting at or not. It’s been so long now that it doesn’t even feel real anymore.
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Ohh Jesus. Here we go again.
So you was a scout? But now you was a gunner too? Cool. Cool.
I see. I see. So now scouts are the ones who make house calls, not... ohh... you know, not regular line infantry platoon sergeants and platoon leaders with a squad of people or the whole platoon. Nope. Just Joe and his interpreter who reports to him. And then Joe decides he's going to leave the house. Because that's how that works...
It's not for anyone who was confused.
Killed one person through a wall. I've heard that story before. Ohh it happens. But not with Joe. Joe killed him three Hadjis that day without even knowing it. A whole day of fire fightin, and he rolled up in the humvee and laid down the slaughter. But wasn't he recon? Wasn't he a tummy time soldier? Hmmm. I think he just consumes other stories and makes them bigger.
This fella has been in so many firefights and engagements, and just kills for fun. Then after that he decided to become a big bad EQ troll.