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Show DU TIN E TO p R 12 2 09 dog. I don't know, they were all distraught about thi dog. I d n t kn w. ut it jack d them all up for some reason. So I pulled them off, put Edwards up on that ide put Wright on the other side and kind of squared away the lines for the night camp d out. Then the next morning we get up and there's these frickin ... Corporal Wright has a pile of chicken eggs in front of his position. He calls me over "What are these?" "Well, they're eggs, dude?" He goes, "I don't know." "You tell me. It's your line." He's like, "I don't know." And they're sitting on a plate, stacked in a pyramid. I'm like, somebody must have put them there in the middle of the night and apparently your guys were frickin sleeping and they didn't know it. So we fucking scampered out there and I can't remember, it might have been Skolmowski that I sent out there or somebody, and walk out and you know how Skolmowski's-I can't remember, I think it was Skolmowski, little skinny kid-and he's like a little mouse checking out a cheese trap (laughs). I'm like, "Go get them, Skol!" So he gets them and he brings them back and there's probably eight or ten eggs there. I'm like, "Fuck this, we're having fried eggs this morning, boys." So we whipped up a little fire and somebody had a pan or something we cooked them in. Had fried eggs there on the side of the road just outside of Baghdad. We push further east, supposedly, that's what it was, we were sitting there on the corner that had taken a couple of mortar rounds or something and we don't know if they were friendly, enemy, what. Who knows? They had this big threat of 100 tanks were coming at us. We're like, oh, okay. Roger that. So a couple tanks pulled up alongside us. Those guys had ended up being from 4th Marine division, so they were reservists, just like us. They were telling us some stories of some of the stuff that they 'd done and seen and everything. They were really good guys. We talked to them for a while. Then all of a 72 |
