Humor in Uniform 2/6/2010

[R J]

2/6/2010
In the final days before our massive ground attack on Iraq in Operation Desert Storm, my tank company was moved to a position 15 to 20 kilometers from the Iraqi border.  It was a very flat, open area that left us vulnerable to Scud missile attacks, Therefore, every evening we repositioned one kilometer to make targeting more difficult.  It meant tearing down tents, camouflage nets, communications gear, barbed wire and more, only to reassemble it ten minutes later in a new location.     Since we had other units to our south, east and west, the only direction we could move was north, closer to the border.   As a young company commander, I knew my soldiers hated this routine.  One day I asked a small group of soldiers if they understood why we relocated every night.  "Yes sir," came a confident reply of one soldier.    "we're sneaking up on them.
David C Stader