Post by gunblue on Feb 8, 2007 17:42:37 GMT 8
Guys especially Poppy or Joel, those who are assigned here in Kabul and been to Camp Phoenix I'm sure you met this guy. He's on the front gate of the camp. I always got to see him almost every week when I go to the camp and here is his heroic story:
A true story about an Afghan man called Rambo (UNCLASSIFIED)
Hi everyone.
I'm still alive but freezing my tail off. We got 8 inches of snow last week
and it reached 5 degrees below zero that night. That's not why I'm e-mailing
though.
You may have heard about a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul last Thursday.
It was at one of our FOB's (Forward Observation Bases) about
27 miles from here.
But the real story is why no one was killed.
We employ several thousand Afghans on our various bases. Not to mention the
economy that is fed by the money these locals are making.
Some are laborers and builders, but some are skilled workers.
We even have one Afghan that just became OSHA qualified, the first ever.
Some are skilled HVAC workers.
Anyway, there is this one Afghan that we call Rambo.
We have actually given him a couple of sets of the new ACU uniforms (the new
Army digital camouflage) with the name tag RAMBO on it.
His entire family was killed by the Taliban and his home was where our base
currently resides. So this guy really had nowhere else to go.
He has reached such a level of trust with US Forces that his job is to stand
at the front gate and basically be the first security screening.
Since he can't have a weapon, he found a big red pipe. So he stands there at
the front gate in his US Army ACU uniform with his red pipe.
If a vehicle approaches the gate too fast or fails to stop he slams his pipe
down on their hood.
Then once the gate is lifted the vehicle moves on the 2nd gate where the US
Army MP's are. So he's like the first line of defense.
Last Thursday at 0930 hrs a Toy**a Corolla packed with explosives and some
Jack Ass that thinks he has 72 Virgins waiting for him approached the gate.
When he saw Rambo he must have recognized him and known the gig was up.
But he needed to get to that 2nd gate to detonate and take American lives.
So he slams his foot on the gas which almost causes the metal gate to go up
but mostly catches on the now broken windshield.
Rambo fearlessly ran to the vehicle, reached thru the window and jerked the
suicide bomber out of the vehicle before he could detonate and commenced to
putting some red pipe to his heathen ass.
He detained the guy until the MP got there.
The vehicle only exploded when they tried to push it off base with a robot
but know one was hurt.
I'm still waiting for someone to give this guy a medal or something. Nothing
less than instant US citizenship or something.
A hat was passed around and a lot of money was given to him in thanks by both
soldiers and civilians that are working over here.
I guess I just wanted to share this because I want people to know that it's
working over here.
They have tasted freedom. This makes it worth it to me.
JOHN W. HUNT, CPT , US ARMY
Operations Officer
Bagram Afghanistan
A true story about an Afghan man called Rambo (UNCLASSIFIED)
Hi everyone.
I'm still alive but freezing my tail off. We got 8 inches of snow last week
and it reached 5 degrees below zero that night. That's not why I'm e-mailing
though.
You may have heard about a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul last Thursday.
It was at one of our FOB's (Forward Observation Bases) about
27 miles from here.
But the real story is why no one was killed.
We employ several thousand Afghans on our various bases. Not to mention the
economy that is fed by the money these locals are making.
Some are laborers and builders, but some are skilled workers.
We even have one Afghan that just became OSHA qualified, the first ever.
Some are skilled HVAC workers.
Anyway, there is this one Afghan that we call Rambo.
We have actually given him a couple of sets of the new ACU uniforms (the new
Army digital camouflage) with the name tag RAMBO on it.
His entire family was killed by the Taliban and his home was where our base
currently resides. So this guy really had nowhere else to go.
He has reached such a level of trust with US Forces that his job is to stand
at the front gate and basically be the first security screening.
Since he can't have a weapon, he found a big red pipe. So he stands there at
the front gate in his US Army ACU uniform with his red pipe.
If a vehicle approaches the gate too fast or fails to stop he slams his pipe
down on their hood.
Then once the gate is lifted the vehicle moves on the 2nd gate where the US
Army MP's are. So he's like the first line of defense.
Last Thursday at 0930 hrs a Toy**a Corolla packed with explosives and some
Jack Ass that thinks he has 72 Virgins waiting for him approached the gate.
When he saw Rambo he must have recognized him and known the gig was up.
But he needed to get to that 2nd gate to detonate and take American lives.
So he slams his foot on the gas which almost causes the metal gate to go up
but mostly catches on the now broken windshield.
Rambo fearlessly ran to the vehicle, reached thru the window and jerked the
suicide bomber out of the vehicle before he could detonate and commenced to
putting some red pipe to his heathen ass.
He detained the guy until the MP got there.
The vehicle only exploded when they tried to push it off base with a robot
but know one was hurt.
I'm still waiting for someone to give this guy a medal or something. Nothing
less than instant US citizenship or something.
A hat was passed around and a lot of money was given to him in thanks by both
soldiers and civilians that are working over here.
I guess I just wanted to share this because I want people to know that it's
working over here.
They have tasted freedom. This makes it worth it to me.
JOHN W. HUNT, CPT , US ARMY
Operations Officer
Bagram Afghanistan
