Love Me When I'm Gone by Robert Patrick Lewis

Author:Robert Patrick Lewis [Lewis, Robert Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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ISBN: 9780985940416
Amazon: 0985940417
Publisher: Trojan Warrior Books
Published: 2012-12-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Going to Afghanistan

As crazy as the previous week had been, and as crazy as we knew it was about to get, the next month was just bananas. We were being pulled in every direction for meetings, updates, and intel briefs, but for all of the information we were getting nobody could or would tell us exactly where we would be deploying. I tried to collect medical intelligence on my own, but within the first few days of receiving our orders we had been told we would be going to the western border with Iran, the next day it was the eastern border with Pakistan, then Kabul, then up north. After a while we just stopped paying attention and were so busy that we never even saw The Captain come to collect his things and move out of the team room.

It was a bit surprising when we walked in one day and saw Johnson in our team room; he had been on 021, was attached to us during the Litzum trip, and less than a month before our deployment had been told he would be moving to 022 for good. When he showed up we didn’t even know where to put him, but after the leadership meeting at the end of that day we were told where: John was being taken away from us to go to 025 as part of their new leadership.

We couldn’t believe it. We had been training together for years, and now that we were all comfortable with each other, knew each other’s thoughts, had all our SOP’s down and could anticipate each other’s movements, once again the leadership was switching everything up on us—just prior to a deployment, no less.

The same morning our new Captain arrived with all of his gear, and we didn’t even have time to give him a proper welcome. We were helping John move his stuff down the hallway when the B-team Operations Sergeant told us that The Colonel wanted to speak with all the men without the leadership, at the flagpole in five minutes. None of us knew what the hell was going on, but when The Colonel called, you answered.

We grabbed our berets, threw on the best uniforms we could find, and ran down to the flagpole in front of the HQ. Josh was the ranking man so he assembled us in a formation, and when The Colonel walked out of the front door and toward our formation he called us to attention.

“Cut that shit out, men” was The Colonel’s response, and he waved his hand and told us to make a semi-circle around him.

“Now, men,” he started in his no-nonsense, tough, and direct manner of speaking. “I’m sorry. I feel like I’ve failed you as a commander, and I give you my most sincere apologies. You’ve had a weak command ever since Pat [the Team Sergeant for 022 before Josh, a very highly respected man around both 1/10 and 10th Group] left, and I’m doing everything that I can to make it up to you.

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