USMCRugbyWtrboy
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Greetings gents,
I was a Corporal in the USMC infantry and served in 1/7 "Suicide" from 2004-2008.
First deployment was to Al Qaim around 2005. I was called a "boot" by my senior Marines because I missed the March Up. Got FAP'd out to the DFAC and stood many lonely nights with a couple of other boots watching detainees. It was funny when we made a tabasco MRE bomb that drove the HET team and their interrogation suspect out of the room they were in.
Eventually I got to go out on some patrols and ride down "IED alley" and had some mortars fall around my fighting position on the Euphrates review. Then we guarded some old ammo dump out in the middle of bumfook Al Anbar.
Come home for awhile deployed again to Al Qaim. This time I was a gunner in a MAP (Mobile Assault Platoon- sort of poor man's CAAT). This pissed off the 0331 b/c I was an 0311, but, hey, it beats walking.
After this deployment I went to All Marine Rugby Trials in 2006. Didn't make the team...hence, the waterboy name. There I met my personal hero, Jeremy Graczyk. I am in the process of writing a book about him so PM me if you knew him.
Most of my peers in 1/7 C Co did not deploy again but the cutoff date was people with an EAS of January 1st and mine was January 4th. FOOK ME. Not so bad, because I basically did radio watch with the XO and then got sent to be COG on the night shift at the Colonel's base outside Hit. Pretty lame, but there were some SEALS there who were fun to observe their hijinks as I toured the posts.
I was a Corporal in the USMC infantry and served in 1/7 "Suicide" from 2004-2008.
First deployment was to Al Qaim around 2005. I was called a "boot" by my senior Marines because I missed the March Up. Got FAP'd out to the DFAC and stood many lonely nights with a couple of other boots watching detainees. It was funny when we made a tabasco MRE bomb that drove the HET team and their interrogation suspect out of the room they were in.
Eventually I got to go out on some patrols and ride down "IED alley" and had some mortars fall around my fighting position on the Euphrates review. Then we guarded some old ammo dump out in the middle of bumfook Al Anbar.
Come home for awhile deployed again to Al Qaim. This time I was a gunner in a MAP (Mobile Assault Platoon- sort of poor man's CAAT). This pissed off the 0331 b/c I was an 0311, but, hey, it beats walking.
After this deployment I went to All Marine Rugby Trials in 2006. Didn't make the team...hence, the waterboy name. There I met my personal hero, Jeremy Graczyk. I am in the process of writing a book about him so PM me if you knew him.
Most of my peers in 1/7 C Co did not deploy again but the cutoff date was people with an EAS of January 1st and mine was January 4th. FOOK ME. Not so bad, because I basically did radio watch with the XO and then got sent to be COG on the night shift at the Colonel's base outside Hit. Pretty lame, but there were some SEALS there who were fun to observe their hijinks as I toured the posts.
