SHOOTOUT!

GabeTexasGAMC - 12-13-2005 at 11:45 PM

On the History Channel.
WOW!

The one on right now is about Iraqs most wanted.
How the Coalition forces try to capture groups of insurgents, and the shoot out involved.
Fuck... these kids have gone through hell.

Voodoobillyman - 12-14-2005 at 08:22 AM

Crazy isnt it? Brass balls to go into that, big Brass balls. My experience with the war was far different from that of the ground pounders but we had a fair shake at pucker factor. I am on the VBSS teams (visit, board, search and seizure) we were formed after the first gulf war to break up illegal exports from Iraq based on the oil emabrgo. Our mission has changed, like everyone elses, inot anti terrorism measures. We board suspect vessels in the Med and gulf and collect intelligence and sometimes arrest suspects. Basically like a cop pulling someone over and searching the vehicle except on a much larger scale and out in the middle of the water. I wont ramble anymore, but if you guys are interested I have some stories to tell..............gay shit, crazy shit, funny shit, scary shit, tragic shit. Too much shit.

GabeTexasGAMC - 12-14-2005 at 11:33 AM

fuck man.
that sounds exciting and scary at the same time.
Live ammo always scares me, unknown places, like dark rooms, where a dude might be waiting with a gun is fucked up.

Voodoobillyman - 12-15-2005 at 11:17 AM

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that sounds exciting and scary at the same time

yeah, that pretty much sums up how it feels. sometimes you tunnel in real hairy situations (which is dangerous as all hell) and dont feel anything, like dreaming, wierd.

I have to tell one story so here goes, skip this if not interested:

Alright so it's July 2001 and we are cruising in the Gulf conducting MIO (maritime interception operations) enforcing the oil embargo against Iraq. We hail a cargo Vessel with some Arabic name, I forget, and they do not respond. They begin to speed up and we persue. Once we have intercepted the vessel the VBSS team is called up, oh yeah we were fast asleep as this was about 0200 in the morning. We have exactly 1 hour to suit up get to the Intel brief, issue weapons and prepare to disembark our ship for the RHIB (rigid hull inflatable boat) and embark the SP (suspect vessel). Because they tried to escape this is what we call a non-compliant boarding, the scariest ones. These guys are known to string barbed wire around there borders cut caving ladders as we climb unto there shps etc.... so adrenalin is pumping. Once in the RHIB headed to the SP we get the pep talk from our Boarding Officer. So we board the vessel and no one is in sight as we make the climb, about 90 feet of freeboard. Once on the SP we break into our sweep teams, I'm on team 1 which heads for the bridge of the ship to engage the master or captain. We get there and find him, then we have to read a miranda, almost exactly like a cop except for international laws. Hard to do to someone who speaks very little to no english, its all about triangulating your target and keeping stern eye contact while using hand gestures. So the crew gets rounded up and placed in the custody of our two security teams. We begin to sweep the SP looking for any loose crew or dangers (bombs, weapons etc...) We come to this one stateroom and it's locked, so we batter the door in and what do we find??? Two arab dudes fucking...........DUDES FUCKING!!!!!!!!! I shit you not, we could not believe , I couldnt make this shit up! So we yell for them to stop and get decent, they understtod our shock and anger, but not our words so we had to literally wrap them in blankets because they were afraid to move. We get them into the security area and all is well, for someone who has just seen dudes fucking. The rest of the sweep goes smooth and we begin our cargo search, whish is climbing and reppeling the trailors you see on big rigs stacked three high on a ship. This part is always fun. We sound their tanks and find they are in fact oil smugglers. The next step is to embark a small crew from our ship who can drive the ship into Kuwaiti port. Kuwait deals with the smugglers and we are told they do not get trials, they get their heads chopped off. So we finall turn over and get back to our own ship around 0800 or so in the morning. No sooner does my head hit the pillow, we get the call again, so one hour to get ready and briefed again. This time, the captain and engineer from the same SP have managed to escape and have jumped over the side of the ship. They are now men overboard, and becasue of their erratic behavior considered dangerous. So we have to go scoop them out of the drink. When we get to one of them he is so tired from treading 3 foot swells he was about to go under for good. My Chief snatches him out of the water with one hand and power lifts the dude into the air like a wrestler getting ready to choke slam a dude, he then slams this dude face first into the deck of our RHIB, which is covered in non skid (like heavy duty sandpaper) and grinds his face in it while we jump on him to cuff him. The second one we never found, the big blue swallowed his ass up and he went to Davey Jones locker. We eventually managed to get the SP and what was left of her crew into port and went on our merry way to find the next one. Sorry this was long, but I just felt like sharing this story, good times it is. I gave it up and resigned from the teams when I got married in 2002.

BDx13 - 12-15-2005 at 11:41 AM

TWO DUDES!!

GabeTexasGAMC - 12-15-2005 at 11:42 AM

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Originally posted by Voodoobillyman

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that sounds exciting and scary at the same time

...the big blue swallowed his ass up and he went to Davey Jones locker.

hahahah fucking nerd!

dude... seriously... whoa!
if i wasnt so lazy, id like to do something like this.
Search and rescue is cool too.

Voodoobillyman - 12-15-2005 at 12:41 PM

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hahahah fucking nerd!

Aaaarrrhhh matey

I get all into the sailing shit

Big D.........yes, DUDES FUCKING!!!! and nasty stinky arab dudes at that.

GabeTexasGAMC - 12-15-2005 at 12:43 PM

hahah i forgot about the dudes fucking part. thats some fucked up shit!

Voodoobillyman - 12-15-2005 at 01:03 PM

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thats some fucked up shit!

I will take it to my grave, and my wife likes to hear about it so she can laugh, but it just rehashes terrible memories for me

JawnDiablo - 12-15-2005 at 06:14 PM

good thing ya didnt go blind after seein 2 arabs fucking..god!

tireironsaint - 12-15-2005 at 07:05 PM

Crazy story, I dunno about anyone else, but I'm happy to read any of 'em that you feel like sharing. That kinda shit is really interesting to read.

upyerbum - 1-4-2006 at 01:32 PM

Here ya' go.....

I used to be in the Canadian military, specifically the infantry. We were called up to go to the Gulf back in 91'. We ended up helping the Scot's Guard out at a P.O.W. camp cuz there was more surrendering going on than actual fighting. The camp I was at was about thirty km's south of the Kuwaiti border, and was approaching the 10,000 prisoner mark when we got there. This was really my first exposure to Arab culture, we'd been briefed on their religious practices and basically what not to do (ie. wave with your left, unclean, hand...which we did all the time). We pretty much hit the ground flying and found ourselves out in the middle of the desert at this camp. We were briefed on our duties and started filtering out the Scot's Guard who'd been at it for 72 hours. I was placed out in the "pen" where we would receive prisoners off the Puma's and Blackhawks, run them into the pen, sit them down with legs crossed, hands on heads, looking at the ground. You don't allow them to look around, talk, etc. cuz we don't know what they're saying, and they could be organizing an escape or some such action. So there I am standing in front of 200 Iraqis, all cross-legged, hands on heads, staring at the ground waiting to be processed. I see this little guy in the middle with his hand up. I yell at him to get his hands on his head and his eyes down, which he does. About a minute later his hands up and he's looking right at me. This is unusual, so I think maybe this guy is someone with something to say, so I go grab a Kuwaiti interpreter. He comes over and asks the guy what his problem is. Well, it turns out buddy is about to shit his pants. It occurs to us he may want to get rid of something. So I get him up on his feet, and walk about 100 metres to a row of porta-potties, open the door and stand there with my rifle on him and motion for him to do his business. Now, he's a prisoner so I have to keep the door open....buddy steps into the porta-potty and proceeds to climb up on the seat, before I can even say anything he turns around, straddles the seat, hikes up his robe (he was a conscipt) and lets fly with about a five minute diarreaha session, enormous fart sounds and all, with the biggest, most grateful smile I think I have ever seen on anyone's face. It was at that point I realized what a ridiculous scene I was involved in. A man standing on a toilet seat letting diarreaha fly with another man standing there pointing a rifle at him. (I only tell the funny ones)

Voodoobillyman - 1-4-2006 at 04:58 PM

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we'd been briefed on their religious practices and basically what not to do (ie. wave with your left, unclean, hand...which we did all the time).

Yeah, our favorite was the bottom of the shoe thing, so we would find any opportunity to take advantage of it and piss some already pissed Arab dudes off at our asses. Good times. I actually did some boardings with the canuck Navy, got shitty drunk with em underway too. American navy is the only one not to have alcohol for it's crew underway. I've drunk with Germans, Norwegians and Brits, all on their ships. We had more fun hanging out with them on their ships then going into port to raise hell. Canucks are nutty, those boarding teams of yours were CRAZY. We thought we had chips on our shoulders, those dudes went in lookin for trouble. Long hair and beards like they were fuckin SEALS or something, I learned alot of techniques from them though. Good times.

upyerbum - 1-4-2006 at 06:13 PM

If the Navy went dry we wouldn't have one.

We used to put our boots up on the tailgate of the 5 tons.

clevohardcore - 1-4-2006 at 08:52 PM

I saw this too. It is awsome.

Voodoobillyman - 1-5-2006 at 10:07 AM

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We used to put our boots up on the tailgate of the 5 tons.

They hate that shit dont they

Fuck em, we have to go over there and put up with there my friend, my friend shit and deal with that fuckin heat, and watch some of em fuck one another, they can look at the dirty ass bottom of my boondockers.

upyerbum - 1-5-2006 at 11:30 AM

That place is so fucking desolate, its no wonder they're all half crackers.
We had an RAF police dog section at the camp, and the boys told us if anyone made it over the wire to just let em run for an hour and then they'd let the dogs go. We could have literally watched someone run away for at least a day. Not that anyone was gonna run, they were mostly conscripts and were pretty happy to be where they were. The Republican Guard motherfuckers were really arrogant though, that didn't last long, a few of them got a real good look at the bottom of my boots.