So day 4 starts with a real morale killer. OP 3 was manned by 4 ANASF Soldiers. During the night, the squad leader in charge of the group committed an act of treason. While he was on guard and the others were sleeping, he stole their weapons and NVG's and escaped into the mountains. In all, he took, 4ea M4's, one SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon (machine gun)) and 4 sets of NVG's. We were glad that he was only willing to steal for his cause, not die for it. He could have very easily killed several of us while we slept before we got him. The rest of the day consisted of searching the surrounding villages and trying to get intel on where the defector went with the weapons…….and of course getting into gunfights.
There was one thing that happened that day that I thought was cool. Throughout the day, I kept scanning the mountains. When I looked at the one sniper position from the day before, there was a silhouette in there this time. Hours before the fighting started, I had him pegged in there. We couldn't get him with small arms or mortars but we walked in an Apache helicopter and their gun run finished him off. See, scouting does pay off. I claimed that one of course. The nights had been uneventful so far but with the enemy having night vision capability now, we weren't so sure this night would be the same.
Ready for anything at my OP
During a lull in the gunfights, a guy calls over the radio and says "hey Ray why don't you show them your white A$$ and see if that gets em going again"…….so I did. I was thinking, man if I get shot in the butt, I'm gonna feel real dumb.
