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He ended up going with 1-6-08 and did the Helmand push, and just those guys were fucking ripping it up.

Which is the same thing that I remember my recruiter telling me about Afghanistan is like,

oh yeah, I went to Afghanistan.

It's like those guys don't know what they're doing, like basically like shooting hot potatoes at it there there was no like yeah sense of uh you got

to be prepared for this was or it was like it was a the the talk was a joke until about

late oh seven oh eight well even if you were there, so we had, you know, lead into the conversation.

So my buddy was one of the earliest ETTs, the embedded trainer teams.

And it was a buzzsaw, like 05, 06.

And if you talk to like the army units that were there, I mean, it was, they were dealing with the corn gall.

They were dealing with like, no one was in Helmand. The British were getting. Right, right. Yeah. And when I say that,

I mean, the Marine Corps. Yeah, the Marine Corps. No, I agree with that's what I'm saying. It's like,

no one knew. Like, unless you had been there, it wasn't even on the news. Like, you didn't, no one knew.

Like, so like, that's when I told my brother, I'm like, you're going to be a boot.

He ended up going into like the like heaviest fighting, reinvading a Helmand province.

And they're like, his're going to be a boot. He ended up going into like the like heaviest fighting, reinvading a Helman province.

And they're like, his whole company was almost black on ammo.

He's told me some wild stories.

Like complete, complete villages that were strongholds.

Like you're walking like, oh, nope, nope, we just drive through because you can't even stop.

And they were doing some wild stuff.

And, and yeah, anyway, so I tell him that we end up starting to get all the after actions in the sniper platoon.

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