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RECCE PLATOON - OCULI ET QUAE
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Corporal F.J. McCann
29 October 2004
 The last two weeks saw call sign 5 spread over hells half acre. 50 and 53 found themselves at the Pol-e-Charkhi ammunition storage site on the rotating task of guarding the compound. It was fairly quiet out there. Actually it was a couple of pot shots taken at one of the towers. No harm done though, luckily there was a couple of NSE guys in the tower at the time and reported the SHOTREP to higher. Due to the nature of the task there were no high speed chases to report from 50. Captain “Starsky”, also known as our platoon commander, must have been going crazy with nothing to stake out or chase down and detain this week. Maybe next patrol –Sir! A couple of unfortunate souls in 53 came down with a mysterious gastro virus and had to spend the night in the MIR; embarrassing themselves in front of the medics. I don’t want to speculate but the quality of the food from the flying kitchen may have something to do with it or maybe it was the sanitary conditions of the ammunition site. Affectionately referred to as the “ISAF Garbage Dump” because it is littered with garbage from every contingent that has completed the task.
51B and 52 were teamed up to rotate through regular patrol tasks, which were uneventful to say the least. The rest of platoon is confident that no incidents means that they were highly effective, seeing as they were looking so badass nobody wanted to mess with them. Must have been the sunglasses.
 I personally can attest to the fact that Op CAMELSPIDER, also known as the over 8500 ft “little hill” behind the camp, is a kick in the butt. Once you make it to the first plateau, which is at least 500 meters in elevation over the first 300 meters, surprise, surprise; it keeps going up. Regardless of how difficult it was, the guys made the ascent in record time and enjoyed actually doing some light infantry tasks. 51B had the pleasure of leading an American platoon, on this little walk in the park. They were highly impressed with our Sophie thermal sight; apparently it made what we were looking at crystal clear. We took light rucks, which in hindsight was probably a bad idea, because we froze our butts off that night. Oh well, live and learn. It’ll be full rucks next time, I’m sure.
 On a happy note our Slovenian brothers let both 51B and 52 shoot their high-speed weapons, which was great. A little warning would have been nice before firing the AK 47 in full auto from the standing though. It must have been hilarious to watch as the whole firing line was forced to take a step back from the kick. I hope in the future we’ll have a chance to do it again.
Last but not least MCpl Stewart is rumoured to have landed in Dubai and is now working his way here on his harem while lazily taking in the sun and cruising up the slides a the Wild Wadi Water Park. It’s been two months since we first heard he was coming to replace another member of the platoon that had to go home for compassionate reasons and no one is certain where he might be. Forget where’s Waldo, how about where’s MCpl Stewart? |
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