Saddam's Stadium

Yup........

0630 Today I woke up, it was the hottest fuckin day ever. My cot was covered in sweat, even though the god dam AC had been running all night and day it never really did much. Must of been fuckin broken. Everyone else was just getting up. We all went outside to get in formation and talk about the days duties. I was thinking man we've already been here for two fuckin weeks lets just go already...

1430 Finally they told us that we'd be going down range. I mean shit everythings already packed the fuck up in the connex's already. Sgt. Dice comes into the tent and tells us " hey guys looks like we get to ride some chinooks in, should be fun" ....Man.... Chinooks? I don't feel like getting shot down. But should be fun anyways. Everyone looks pretty pumped to finally get this shit started, been waiting long enough.

1600 " hey guys, change of plans. We're flying C-130's in and then we're getting picked up by our choppers." Sweet! Someone says. "Hellllllll!!!!! Yeahhhh!!! MOTHAFUCKA!!!! RICCCKK JAMMESS!!!" Did someone just say Rick James?? I say. Man everyone was just so excited.

1700 We start loading up on the C130 We each have 3 duffel bags and all our body armor, probably weighing about 10,000 pounds. (Not really maybe like 200 pounds combined) Just tons of crap to carry all smashed and smushed in the bird. We finally take off and people start yelling and screaming getting nuts. someone even goes as far as saying "Hey guys don't worry the last time one of these planes crashed was last week" WOW..... really bro, why would you say something like that right now?

1830 WE FINALLY FUCKING LAND...... Thank God, I hate flying in tight small places where everyone is just fuckin smashed together for over full capacity. But wars aren't fought comfortably are they? We get out of the plane that just flew from Kuwait and all I can hear right when we land in BIAP (Baghdad International Airport) Was a huge fucking explosion and distinctly AK 47 firing. kak kak kak kak kak.... WHAT THE FUCK I say, everyone starts rushing out of the plane and BOOOOOMMMMM another explosion. I honestly didn't know what to think at the time because I didn't see anything happening only hearing what was going on outside the walls.

1900 The gunfire and explosions settles everyone starts to unload everything and we get the brief that the chinooks are coming for us tonight to pick us up. Plus birds can only fly at night at high capacity because they're always getting shot down. As soon as it turns dark the fuckin airport turns into pandemonia so much air traffic coming through tonight. It was crazy. I honestly felt like I was in a movie like Black Hawk Down or something. Idk It was pretty nuts at the time.

2000 "Alright guys keep your fucking heads down!! Make sure you stay one behind the other when we get on the bird!!! We got to head in at an angle so your head doesn't get chopped off! Everyone got it!!!??"  All says "We got it SGT!!!!" (When I say all I mean all of 3rd squad) DUK DUK DUK DUK DUK DUK DUK DUK.... "Here she comes guys!!!" man I'd have to say it felt pretty cool to be running up to our chinook in the pitch black darkness but at the same time I had the feeling that shit could go down at anytime to. "GET ON THE FUCKING BIRD!!!!" "GO GO GO!!" We all piled on that bitch like a can of sardines let me tell yah lol.  Once we got on they raised the back ramp and took off.

2015 The gunner is hanging out off the ramp in the back of the chopper with the 240 machine gun. I was pretty close to the tail of the chopper and man we got up in the air and you could just see all of baghdad. All the lights and streets. Burning cars, fire fights going on, and explosions from far away. Everyone in the bird was silent. Everyone felt pretty serious now. I looked out one of the windows and immediately I could see one of the other birds with a bunch of our boys in it. Someone gave the finger to and was laughing but nobody laughed in our bird cause it was just so serious.

2030 I feel the bird descending and hovering down slower and slower. We go down a little bit more when I see the cross sabers of saddams stadium, I've only seen saddams stadium in pictures before and never thought that I would one day be there myself. Crazy and Ironic I thought. We finally touch down in the stadium and man it may have been 830 at night but it was still fuckin hot as shit. I couldn't believe how hot it was. I wasn't use to this kind of weather. I mean shit I'm from hawaii lol. Anyways they told everyone make sure security is up and don't fuck around. We may be in the green zone but shit can still go down. Everyone gets their guard up again instead of just jammbling on about the whole landing in saddams stadium. Now we just got to wait for transport. In the mean time someone yells, "Hey guys haha isn't it cool you guys it's saddams stadium!!!" "I yell, MAN FUCK SADDAM, and his fuckin Stadium! He and Bin Laden is the reason I'm here those fucking assholes!"

( To be Continued )