Brothers, you all have been such an encouragement to me. I was so overwhelmed with all of the support and emails that I brought my laptop in the other day and read all of these comments. Most of my guys thought at first that this was some sort of support forum from a church or something, that's how impressed they were. And that does say something. I do have to apologize for my absence as of late, we've been training, shooting, training, shooting and then training some more. It's been kind of hectic out here and we've been taking a higher rate of idf than normal. Our minds are right and we're all ready to do this now. What I don't understand about terrorists as much as I've been hunting these guys down over the years is that why, if they know that we are leaving(Slowly) do they start to hit us so much. I know some of you know what I'm talking about. It just baffles me the hatred they have for us and they really don't know why. Some of you might wonder with all the strategic training, skills, knowledge and many other things, how they can still one-up us sometimes. It's what's deep down inside that controls that. These people have hatred coming from nowhere, and not to degrade a human in animalistic terms but going against someone who literally does not care is almost the most dangerous thing in the world. This might sound a little off but I'm sure most of you have seen "Batman, The Dark Knight." The scene in the movie where the Joker burns half of his piled money amongst the others money at the bottom of the ship... What I'm trying to say is what that scene was showing us is that he, the Joker, could not be bought, he could not be bargained with, he literally just wants chaos. This is what it's like with these guys. There are learning strategies and are getting better by the day. If you can't kill them, or get to them then they'll come after you with nothing to loose, and that's exactly what had just happened a few weeks back. There's only so much we can do to fighting chaos. I would love to say that we go "gun-hoe" on everyone but you can't. No matter what we're packing... It just doesn't work like the movies make us believe. We have humanity in all of us and that's exactly what we are trying to protect. And then we hear about the government shutdown and it just makes us forwardly deployed sick to our stomach because then we ask ourselves, "what the fuck are we fighting for and why did we just loose some of the best men in the world." Sorry about that little rant...
On a different note, I want to personally give a shot out to Machinist. What he's doing and the support he's been showing along with all of you, I'm serious guys when I say this, I just don't know how to thank you all. It just speaks so much to his character and all of yours. And one thing kind of funny is, I had to clear out my closet(if you know what I mean) before I left and was only able to keep a few things. So I am more than happy to take any of you on anything you have to offer. I'm thinking that my gift back maybe could be some blood work or something. You all know me, I'm not afraid of Labs and I'm not afraid to try new things. Guys, I got to go now, I'll try to get on and keep you up to date but the time is coming quick if you, and we're getting our heads strait and our minds right. Thank you all so much and thanks for all the prayers and positive energy your sending our way, I swear that it's helping us as a team.