Free Narrative Essays: Operation Arrowhead Ripper

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Operation Arrowhead Ripper I was in my hooch listening to my IPod when my squad leader Sgt. Larson threw open the door; “Grab your gear we have a mission he yelled”. When the platoon arrived in the motor-pool we received our mission brief and loaded up in our Stryker’s; and headed for the front gate. The calm Iraq morning was soon interrupted with the sound of machine guns being locked and loaded and the war cries of a battalion of infantry men readying themselves for battle. We rolled out the east gate onto route Tampa and headed north for the city of Tal afar, our vehicle “Mohawk 1” was leading the convoy to the target. I remember trying to make sense of all the chatter on the radio shortly before all hell broke loose. As we rolled down route Tampa I was sticking up out of my hatch, when I happened to glance to my left in time to see a man dressed in all black with a long terrorist beard. In an instance the man jumped out from around the corner of…show more content…
When we arrived home I could see the different expressions on the guys faces, some looked scared to death while others looked like they just had the time of their lives. I retreated back to my room where I sat and contemplated every decision i had made in life and how those decisions put me where I was today. As I sat there staring at the ceiling Sgt. Minter poked his head in my door, and asked how I was doing. I sighed and mumbled I don’t know sergeant. He stepped inside and closed the door behind him, then he began to give me some advice his father had given him before he left home. He said “take everything that bothers you and keeps you up at night and put it in a shoe box, place the lid on the shoe box and deal with it later”. That night I decided to take his advice, I put everything that bothered me about that day in a shoe box and put the lid on

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