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Show DU TIN EXTON PT MB R 12, 2009 this and make sure they don't do that. It just was funny. We all ju t sat there and laughed at him. Finally got the doc over there and got him checked out, made sure he was okay. Then we rolled on after that. All the towns kind of blur together now so I don't remember. We just continually, every town we'd come to, somebody would be securing the roads and then they'd collapse in after everybody passed through and we'd just punch on after that. That was, shit, three, four days like that. Then one day we just kept driving along, we were in the back. All of a sudden we get pulled over and there's the whole division sitting on the side of the road, just parked ass to bellybutton, everyone in the division, frickin standing on top of their Amtracks, standing on top of their trucks. I still don't understand that, I don't know what it was. Everybody stopped, we took baths, we soaped up, shaved, bathed each other, just kind of took a break. It was weird. It was like the whole division just piled in; there was no security that I saw anywhere (laughs). We just set the weapons off to the side and said, "Well, let's take a bath" (laughs). It was just weird. We were on the outskirts and you could just look across the whole division of Marines and Amtracks. I think Colonel Doughty gave everybody a big speech or something like that. I don't know; it was weird. We had, like, an hour nap, everybody took a nap, and then we all packed back up. Then we started doing operation plans. The sergeants and everybody started yelling and Sergeant Major started screaming. Pretty soon everybody was pushing out and getting some defense and we were going through battle plans. It was decided at that point that we were going to push to Figar, which wasn't very far up the road at this point, while 32, I believe, pushed forward, and part of our battalion was going to push ... no, the whole battalion was pushing towards Figar and 32 and 14 were pushing up north and we 54 |
