Off Topic but I could use someone

[zieglerj-pdm-specialist]

I am an 12th year Army Ranger 31 years old who is going back on tour in 31 days on my fifth tour. I am on the blaster Team which disarm and destroy IED's within our soldiers way. My first year in Iraq I was the call out Seargant for my Blaster one who went into to disarm the IEDS and my Captain requested tools so I ran them down to him and was on my way running back and the IED detonated killing my commanding officer to nothing and giving me shrapnel on my back and left side of my body and face leaving shrapnel and rock embedded into my flesh. It to took me a month and 1/2 to recover and then I went back out into the field. I did this for 3 years and then requested to be on the front line Blaster, I took courses how to disconnect bombs and beware of my surroundings,

I made a bad call my first day in the suit I seen a Hodgy five stories up on a side building 45 degree's in correlation to the IED out of the blast radius , he looked like he was using a cell phone to detonate but all he was doing was playing Tetris on a Gameboy, I was in full blast gear not knowing if he was sending a signal to blow, definitely killing me and possibly a couple of my specialists so I took him out with out hesitating with a 9mm the only gun allowed with me in a blast suit. I was cleared as a good decision to shoot.

When I got back I took this Forum to take my mind off of the war but reality is reality. 30 days after today I leave for fort Benning, they may call me sooner they are the time table of my life I will be going back to take command of blast unit of the 145th. 360 days until I have the option to come home or if I request for 720. I don't feel like I belong State Side. My Yukon XL took the thoughts away for minutes at a time. I cant sleep so if a couple of my posts may not make any sense and I apologize. My wife is having a hard time living with me because I'm up all our of the night and I sleep in a tent some nights if I want a good night sleep. The most I've slept is 4 hours a night. When I first got back I always had my .45 Glock 21 always on my hip of 4,000 people which was uncalled for. I never thought war would take your mind to a different place but I can say it definitely does and no matter the medication you take it doesn't take away the dreams and the cold sweat terrors at night. Knowing that you killed more than how many toes and fingers you have really harms the mental state of a person takes a toll on you and your soul. I tried to hide myself in this forum. Is there any other active duty soldiers on this forum I could maybe talk to because I cant talk about what happened with my wife or the shrinks that are here for us to talk to but they have no clue what we have been through and I just need to help before I venture back. Please if there are any soldiers I would appreciate a write back here or at my email [email protected]. May God Take care of our troops and keep them strong to help the people who cant help themselves. Captain Ziegler Leader of the 75th Ranger Regiment, I've been in the blast suit for 4 years and I wont change my duties even though they want to promote me to a desk and I will not agree to that, My specialty is to disarm bombs and saving lives, there is no other life for me. God Bless and please reach out with your email or send a message to my email if anyone wants to talk to a soldier who needs a hand. Sorry I took this forum to reach out to talk about my deployment but I'm a US Citizen who needs someone to help me through a tough time. Please have a heart and please let people if there is anyone I can talk to via email. Take Care.

 

[Pachanga02]

Sorry I can't help in the sense that I don't know anything about the battlefield but THANKS a million for everything you and your family have done to keep us safe.

 

[NathanJax]

Sorry I can't help in the sense that I don't know anything about the battlefield but THANKS a million for everything you and your family have done to keep us safe.

x2

 

[JochenWoern]

x2

X3

 

[Regency]

Thanks for everything you do man. Being on the front line of dis-arming IED's would be very stressful I can only imagine. Thanks again for everything you do.

 

[Goodinblack]

X100000000

 

[Donnie Yukonie]

Sending you a PM now! I am Active duty

 

[zieglerj-pdm-specialist]

Thanks 380 days, My brother will be working on my Denali while Im on tour

When I was 6th or 7th grader I hated fights. I cried after my first fist fight I watched. Then when I started to get picked on I had no choice. Over the next 5 years and developed leather skin and fear of no one. I took upon myself to learn to fight big guys, knees are there weak point and Boxers are quick but they all drop the same. Wrestlers rely on the ground game but I taught myself to sprawl and ground and pound. I only fought the guys who were picking on smaller guys or just being assholes, I never once started a fight. They always thought since I was only 5'11 and 190 pounds I couldn't fight. I lost a few but I won a lot. So I joined the Rangers and worked myself up through the ranks. Thank you for reaching out, people don't understand what we go through across seas the limits we stretch to help the people out over there who are actually disrespect us and are trying to kill us.. I don't understand the purpose of war over there. They are killing themselves and why do we need to intervene. This war is like a drug to me. I feel more comfortable in a blast suit standing over 5 IED's pulling the detonation plugs out so that cant hurt anyone. This battle is a non stop no win battle. If we are there for ten more years or leave tomorrow things wont change. They keep everything the same day in day out. IED's deaths non stop!! There was a group of innocents who turned out to be insurgents trying to invade our camps. We had 20 of them trying to get into our camp asking for help. Using Infrared we seen one of them hidden in the pack had suicide bombs all over his body and my officers were not stopping them so I waited until the line was clear and no one was around and I took and RPG and Aimed it at the Hodgy Wired and blew up the crowd. I explained to my commanding officer and he wanted to write me up but the Guys with me said I made the right choice or we would have had a suicide Bomber getting closer and closer each second we let them walk closer and closer and its hard at night to see what exactly is going on. Even every spotlight was on them. Without Infrared they would have made it to the gates and blew our entry point wide open. I question myself daily if the crew with him knew he was strapped or were they innocent? It hurts not knowing I May have killed 19 innocent people, or I saved thousands by taking them out. Its a total mind **** over there. I need to get ice running through my veins and do my job and look at every Hodgy as an enemy. I board soon so I thank you so much for writing. God Bless and Rangers can be slowed down but cannot be stopped. Ill be a Ranger until I die. I have been through more than 50 hand to hand combats and my knife has soaked with 50+ Hodgy blood. Close quarters my shotgun has and unknown amount. I have been a sniper in 20 or more missions. My Longest shot was at 2200 feet While a guy was video taping a Team of my going in deep and I had an experienced leader as my spotter and I scanned the roof tops and was ordered to take out any Hodgy holding an electrical device. We took down 15 that day. Still Unknown bad or good. I need to look at them all as enemies because they act like they know you and want to help and they detonate while talking to you. In my experience I don't trust anyone except for the ones patched with an American Flag. All others are potential threats and why do we let them be potential threats why don't we treat them as threats if they watch us from high altitudes with camera's. They have no reason to be watching and all of them that are should have a warning shot fired at them to move inside and if they don't they don't move should be shot onsite because one of them heartless ******* could be holding my life in his hands while I'm disarming an IED. I want to be safe doing it and Zero Hodgy's watching me trying to save lives is one less potential remote det waiting to happen. When I'm in the field on this tour I'm going to recommend to my Team that I will be the Commanding Officer is to keep as many non US infantry will be warned with a warning shot and if they don't comply they will be shot on site. My life and my Teams life are in anyone's hands watching with a camera.On my last tour their was a guy running a Camera watching me going towards the IED and he was signaling with another ******* across the compound I ordered my Team to shoot them both. They never felt comfortable doing it to innocent people and I felt threatened so I went back and Got my gun and shot a warning shot and waved them to move inside they didn't comply so I shot them both and it kept me more calm disabling the IED. They do not need to be filming anything. They don't care for us over there so if I need to shoot two potential life takers for me to do my job it has to be done. I debriefed the situation and they agreed that my shots were justified but that's is not my job. Your Team needs to comply with your orders. I have killed more people than I want to know. A Couple IED's Blew up as I was running away from the bomb set to a timer, I tried my hardest to get through the barrier they had over the IED but it was impossible. I stayed longer than I should but I learn from my mistakes, I got knocked off my feet from the bomb behind me and that makes every muscle and bone hurt in your body for the next week shaking you to the core. I got my Team behind Jersey Barriers and outside the blast radius saving there lives. That is a good day for me. I would rather be the one getting hurt than any other person on my Team or the Team reporting the bomb. God Speed and Ill be stateside in the next 380 days and counting. Wish me luck that one of them Hodgy ***** don't get me with one of there IEDs. Take Care and God Bless America. My wife and kids are hurting for money and it would be nice if the Army would set up a Fund Raiser for my Wife and 4 girls because I may or may not come back and it would be great to get help from anyone willing to help my family. The Army takes care of my time in Iraq and give me enough to send home to get my family enough to scrape by. They would get paid more if I die, I care for my family enough to take that chance everyday. I don't want to die but people die over their daily why not me. I'm in harms way on every mission. I have disarmed 461 IED's to date and counting. May you all Take Care and give a prayer out to the soldiers fighting over their right now. May God be with us and with you during this war that I hope ends someday soon. My brother lives two houses down with his wife and kids and I do this for my family and his. He will be taking care of my Denali While I'm Gone and he may even post on here if he needs help because I told him without you guys my Denali wouldn't be in the shape its in. God Speed and take care.

 

[zieglerj-pdm-specialist]

My ship date is For August Second to a location in the states to prepare myself for the sandbox but I went through everything all I need to know so I'm going to try and push my extraction Date to get my numbers running for my date back to the states. I have been ranked up in my division and one more bar and I'm at the top of the IED Command but I will not be removed from the field even if it costs me a rank which is frowned upon in the military but I do is what I do best in the field not giving orders and making calls for the other Blast masters in the field. My position is over the IED.. The only three departments I'm good at and that's not dying, disarming IED's and Sniper. They try to take me away from those two departments I will be sent home with a dishonorable discharge and I have made that known to my supervisors. They know my attitude and don't like it but they admit that I'm not replaceable with my skill set. I try not to be a dick I just want to do the jobs where I feel are most comfortable with me and they happen to be the most dangerous jobs anyone can enroll in. Sniper can be a week or two moving slowly daily to get in the position to get a shot on the mark. We can drink 4 onces of water every four hours to keep our reserve full and we wont dehydrate. Going to the bathroom is where you lie but with the amount of water taken in and the heat I haven't pissed at all on a couple week long missions. Its so damn hard to visualize the target so we have American or even hodgies who mark the bastard while we are aiming in the vicinity. its a invisible lazer that we can only see through our scopes, once he is marked he has 1 minutes at the most in order to live. My spotter is my eyes he tells me the wind speed, the humidity, the day time on where the position of the sun is in relation to the mark so I know the trajectory of the bullet. a Bullet Travelling 1000 yards has so many factors that can cause the bullet to move and an inch at the beginning of the flight pattern if I'm off by .0025 inch when it leaves the barrel I would be off 5 feet when it reaches its target . I need everything perfect to pull off a perfect shot that you only have one chance at. I usually Take a couple ****** 1 hour or 2 before I know I have to make the shot to slow my heart rate down and relax me so I don't make a major or minor error. People don't say drugs are over here, Im not surprised when vets go home they aren't addicted to pain medications. They say you will not be on pain meds when you go out on a mission but people find a way to get their hands on a couple Vicoden-Hydrocodone and when they show signs of addiction to those drugs they put them on a methadone regimen which is 20 times worse because methadone is harder to kick that Hydro's. You don't get the high like the hydro's give you but it gives you the sense a major relaxation and I admit its great to take the pain away. But its like giving you soldiers a low grade ****** hit. The first thing I do when I get to my crew is have them all take a piss test and if they don't pass they are reported and I'm reassigned a new specialist. My first tour I got addicted to Hydrocodone for the Shrapnel I took and gravel buried in my skin. I told my commanding officer I want off these meds and they took me off and I went into a state of depression and it took me 3 weeks in the barracks breaking the habit. My arms, legs and hands would jump uncontrollably and my mind state was not even 50% I drank water in very high doses to get that shit out of my system and once I was off completely clear. I requested 2 weeks off to work in the shooting range and mental tests of disarming not live IED's and mortars to make 100% sure my mind was in the right place. If they would have put me in the field hopped up on that shit I could have got my crew hurt possibly killed along with myself. I saw a head Doctor throughout this all and he recommended methadone to get me through the rough patches and I passed because of the stories I heard of soldiers coming off methadone killing themselves. So if your loved one comes home not right or feeling good about his tour he is more than likely under the influence of either or drug and he needs to get clean at a Veteran facility ASAP. Or suicide maybe a couple weeks away once he runs out or the Dr. wont prescribe them anymore. For how many dollars we spend on this ******* war they need to get these soldiers coming home the right treatment and make sure they are 100% ready for civilian life. I shouldn't be sharing this but if I can help one of your loved ones or a friend or a friend of a friend this Intel was a success. God Bless you all and the fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan.


god bless all who have fallen in the call of duty

 

[zieglerj-pdm-specialist]

My ship date is For August Second to a location in the states to prepare myself for the sandbox but I went through everything all I need to know so I'm going to try and push my extraction Date to get my numbers running for my date back to the states. I have been ranked up in my division and one more bar and I'm at the top of the IED Command but I will not be removed from the field even if it costs me a rank which is frowned upon in the military but I do is what I do best in the field not giving orders and making calls for the other Blast masters in the field. My position is over the IED.. The only three departments I'm good at and that's not dying, disarming IED's and Sniper. They try to take me away from those two departments I will be sent home with a dishonorable discharge and I have made that known to my supervisors. They know my attitude and don't like it but they admit that I'm not replaceable with my skill set. I try not to be a dick I just want to do the jobs where I feel are most comfortable with me and they happen to be the most dangerous jobs anyone can enroll in. Sniper can be a week or two moving slowly daily to get in the position to get a shot on the mark. We can drink 4 onces of water every four hours to keep our reserve full and we wont dehydrate. Going to the bathroom is where you lie but with the amount of water taken in and the heat I haven't pissed at all on a couple week long missions. Its so damn hard to visualize the target so we have American or even hodgies who mark the bastard while we are aiming in the vicinity. its a invisible lazer that we can only see through our scopes, once he is marked he has 1 minutes at the most in order to live. My spotter is my eyes he tells me the wind speed, the humidity, the day time on where the position of the sun is in relation to the mark so I know the trajectory of the bullet. a Bullet Travelling 1000 yards has so many factors that can cause the bullet to move and an inch at the beginning of the flight pattern if I'm off by .0025 inch when it leaves the barrel I would be off 5 feet when it reaches its target . I need everything perfect to pull off a perfect shot that you only have one chance at. I usually Take a couple ****** 1 hour or 2 before I know I have to make the shot to slow my heart rate down and relax me so I don't make a major or minor error. People don't say drugs are over here, Im not surprised when vets go home they aren't addicted to pain medications. They say you will not be on pain meds when you go out on a mission but people find a way to get their hands on a couple Vicoden-Hydrocodone and when they show signs of addiction to those drugs they put them on a methadone regimen which is 20 times worse because methadone is harder to kick that Hydro's. You don't get the high like the hydro's give you but it gives you the sense a major relaxation and I admit its great to take the pain away. But its like giving you soldiers a low grade ****** hit. The first thing I do when I get to my crew is have them all take a piss test and if they don't pass they are reported and I'm reassigned a new specialist. My first tour I got addicted to Hydrocodone for the Shrapnel I took and gravel buried in my skin. I told my commanding officer I want off these meds and they took me off and I went into a state of depression and it took me 3 weeks in the barracks breaking the habit. My arms, legs and hands would jump uncontrollably and my mind state was not even 50% I drank water in very high doses to get that shit out of my system and once I was off completely clear. I requested 2 weeks off to work in the shooting range and mental tests of disarming not live IED's and mortars to make 100% sure my mind was in the right place. If they would have put me in the field hopped up on that shit I could have got my crew hurt possibly killed along with myself. I saw a head Doctor throughout this all and he recommended methadone to get me through the rough patches and I passed because of the stories I heard of soldiers coming off methadone killing themselves. So if your loved one comes home not right or feeling good about his tour he is more than likely under the influence of either or drug and he needs to get clean at a Veteran facility ASAP. Or suicide maybe a couple weeks away once he runs out or the Dr. wont prescribe them anymore. For how many dollars we spend on this ******* war they need to get these soldiers coming home the right treatment and make sure they are 100% ready for civilian life. I shouldn't be sharing this but if I can help one of your loved ones or a friend or a friend of a friend this Intel was a success. God Bless you all and the fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan.


god bless all who have fallen in the call of duty

I know have of you probably didn't read this or didn't want anything to do with it but it helped me let some of my demons out that needed to go and I thank you.

 

[jdpber]

x2

X5 family serves but I have not.

 

[zieglerj-pdm-specialist]

X5 family serves but I have not.

You don't need to serve to be a part of the battle my brother just be there for the Vets coming home whether its Family, friend or classmate. Show them that you appreciate them and they are going to need help cooping with civilian life and you can help them just by stopping and saying hi. But never ever ask if they killed anyone in war, that takes them right back to a place they are trying to forget. The first time I got home I was at a bond fire and a guy from high school I didn't like but I would let by gons be by gons and the first word out of his mouth did you kill anybody over there punk ass. Before I knew it I had my side blade at his throat and people pulling me off. Over there amps your instincts and it also amps your aggression in bad situations plus the booze does not help. He got mad and wanted hand to hand and I walked away and he came at me. I said I'm not fighting you, he said no matter how much training you cant beat state wrestling champ of 1999. So I said Ill entertain you. He tried to take me down and I spun around and slapped him in the back of his head and said are you sure you want to do this and I made it clear to everyone I'm doing this in self defense and thank God some had a video camera there, they never had video phones readily available back then so I beat him until his jaw was hanging and it nose was offset. So please don't instigate or ask anything about battle. I would have went to jail but the Video came out and I had 100 to 200 witnesses saying I don't want to fight you. Case Closed. Video Showed him trying to attack me over and over and then he got me down and that's when instincts took over I rolled over got him in an arm bar busted his arm and got up and pounded him to the state he was in. Clearing my name. This guy was the town bully so People didn't shun me thank God they said hi and clapped when they saw me. That was one way to coop with civilian life, never instigate or start a fight if your in the armed forces. You have training no one knows about and you can handle yourself 50% faster and 50% smarter than your opponent and it didn't help that I lifter weights a lot when I was there so I was 5"11 220 when I got home after my first tour, all muscle. When I became IED and sniper I dropped down to my natural weight of 185 because you need to be nimble hidden and agile. Bulk doesn't help you cut a wire or pull a trigger. To all of you Vets do not do what I did because you could go away for a very long time if I didn't have video. Because you cant rely on witnesses when a guy takes a beating that bad. Civilians please don't instigate or ask us about war, you can ask about the girls over there or the barracks we stay in but anything beyond the fence keep it hidden. Please

 

[jdpber]

2x WwII survivors still alive.
3x nam.
2x storm.
4x Iraq

I support the troops.

 

[zieglerj-pdm-specialist]

2x WwII survivors still alive.
3x nam.
2x storm.
4x Iraq

I support the troops.

Thank you for supporting my brother his departure date has been moved to August 31st. He would not say why but this mission he is going on scare's the $hit out of me because he said this type of mission is one that I don't come back from unless God is watching over me. I'm watching over his Denali and his forum use to try and help people as much as I can because he asked me too.

 

[afpj]

Tell your bro we appreciate what he does. We in the AF depend on him to clear an LZ from time to time. Never second guess neutralizing the enemy. It will eat you up. If he needs med help, hope he can get to an AF MTF, cause the Army kinda sucks in that respect.

 

[zieglerj-pdm-specialist]

Tell your bro we appreciate what he does. We in the AF depend on him to clear an LZ from time to time. Never second guess neutralizing the enemy. It will eat you up. If he needs med help, hope he can get to an AF MTF, cause the Army kinda sucks in that respect.

My Brother is one guy nobody wants to f with, 7 guys had a problem with him because one of the guys girlfriends took a liking to him, after all of his battles and scars he has is appealing to some women, plus he has a sleeve tattoo that has a meaning for every mission he went on. The one guy who's girlfriend who he was talking too, he wanted nothing more for the girl and the guy to walk away and leave him alone because he didn't want to take him where he did not want to go. He told the guy his rank and his combat abilities and said he cant do this. Then the guy brought seven guys over and kept pushing him and pushing him. The guys were big so the wimp I am I stood behind my brother because he is a big guy. 6'2" 245lbs and he said you heard what I told you about my training and we have witnesses here to back that up. So they went to the Alley and he said we can go 1 on 1 or if you feel better going with 8 on 1, I have no problem with that. Two guys got two hits from him and were knocked out cold, the others kept coming and he kept blocking and not wanting to hurt them until they pulled out a knife, then he went ballistic unarming the knife. The he went one at a time knocking these guys down, they felt tough because they were big and buff but Fast Lane took them all out with in 3 minutes. Officers came and Handcuffed my brother but the crowed said they were taking the wrong guy he was protecting himself. They saw he was an Army Ranger and gave him the respect that he deserved and 5 of the 8 guys were taken by ambulance and the other 3 were cuffed and put in a squad car. I told them one pulled a knife on him and my brother said he didn't and let the authorities clean everything up. Some how one of the beat up guys brother found out and came to the bar to take my brother on. These guys worked out at the heavy Metal gym and were on Steroids so they puffed their chests out but he was still smaller than my brother, genetics I wish I would have got. He knocked him off his feet with one punch and the guy kept on coming so my brother roundhouse kicked him in the ribs breaking two ribs and broke his nose, eye socket and his jaw. The Cops came back and we explained the story and the cops found Crystal Meth on the guy which explained why he wouldn't quit. My brother said to the cops this is how a war veteran gets treated when he is home for a few weeks. He walked home because he hates fighting Americans. He felt bad the next two days there was no cheering him up. He has a lot of Demons which he needs help for and I hope this is his last tour than we can get him some help. I just hope he is not to far gone that we can real him back in.

 

[dropmech]

Wish I could sit down and buy you a drink man. Thank you for your service, no matter how insane it is that we are involved over there. You and your brothers are an exclusive group of people who deserve all the help you need when you return home. All I can offer is this: http://www.veteranscrisisline.net/Default.aspx There are also a number of different organizations available for the troops. A lot of them are staffed by vets who know exactly what you are in need of. Try here as well: http://soldiersangels.org/support-groups.html Stay safe and God Bless you and your men!

 

[zieglerj-pdm-specialist]

Wish I could sit down and buy you a drink man. Thank you for your service, no matter how insane it is that we are involved over there. You and your brothers are an exclusive group of people who deserve all the help you need when you return home. All I can offer is this: http://www.veteranscrisisline.net/Default.aspx There are also a number of different organizations available for the troops. A lot of them are staffed by vets who know exactly what you are in need of. Try here as well: http://soldiersangels.org/support-groups.html Stay safe and God Bless you and your men!

My name is Todd the brother of the Army Ranger in service. If he would have needed help in the fight I would have helped, I'm just a civilian but very proud of my brother and what he goes through so we can sleep in peace at night. He is gone on his next tour as we speak. I don't know why people don't treat him like he should be treated here in the states. That fight should have never happened, my brother told the guy that his girl friend was just talking to him and that is it, he is not interested in women who are in a relationship, he has respect for the guy who has girl friends and he tried to walk away but they kept on coming at him. He does whatever he can not to fight while he is home but the a$$holes who were on steroids thought that could muscle him down with 8 people, my brother said no until the guy through a drink on him and that's where he draws the line of disrespect and he clearly told them his rank and training he has but they just wouldn't quit and I told them he is one guy you do not want to f with. But they took that as a challenge. Wrong move. I can tell when my brother gets depressed and after the fights he got in he felt like $hit. All he wants is to be home and relax and enjoy his time away from the war but people don't see it that way. He actually visited the guy who was on Meth in the Hospital and told him to please get help to get off the steroids and Meth because it will ruin his life. My brother never tries to make enemies in the states he does whatever he can to help people, he has always been that way. Seeing him fight makes me scared also because my brother knows *********** people in hand to hand combat and I'm glad he restrained him self just to fight and not have a flash back of the war. He actually talked with the Doctor to get the guy in a treatment program to help him with his addictions. With the injuries he has he wont be able to leave the hospital anytime soon so hopefully this will give him time to get off whatever he was on. I look up to my brother, everything he does is for the welfare of the people who needs help. When the guy pulled the knife it scared me also because that is a sign of a death threat and he could have killed the guy in self defense but he disarmed him right away and through the blade where no one could find it, its on top of the bar. He just wanted a peaceful night out with me to catch up. I never talk to him about the war because that opens wounds that he does not need to think about. While he was walking him I stayed a block behind him all the way home because I could tell he was depressed and had regret. I just wish people would understand what he has gone through over there and he does not need to go through that while he is state side. I respect him more after he visited the guy in the hospital to get him help. He has a big heart and protects and helps people when he can. God Bless my Brother and I pray he has a guardian angel while he is over in the sandbox because he is one of the Ranger Elites and his first mission is a sniper mission where he and his spotter need to infiltrate a high power king pin and he as 2 weeks to infiltrate is base by crawling in Ghillee suits and getting close enough to take a precise and accurate shot because he only gets one shot before they get made. SO he needs to get in and out without dying and that scares me but he has the training to take out his mark without being seen. He said he needs to get in within 3000 feet before he can take the shot and they need to wait for right weather conditions and he needs to trust his spotter on how to make the shot depending on wind, density in the air, and the position of the mark so my prayers go out to him and his spotter. He said after that mark is taken out he will go back to disabling IED's. So he is in dangers way everyday he is there. God Bless Him and all the other soldiers fighting for us

 

[dnme305]

We appreciate you man....Thanks for doing what you do. Im in law enforcement but could never imagine what you guys go through out there.

 

[zieglerj-pdm-specialist]

We appreciate you man....Thanks for doing what you do. Im in law enforcement but could never imagine what you guys go through out there.

Thank you so much for taking care of our streets Domestically, I admire you also for putting yourself on the line also with out knowing who has a knife or a gun. The honor is mine to meet an officer of the low. Keep going strong and Always be alert. Take Care. God Speed:

Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host -
by the Divine Power of God -
cast into hell, Satan and all the evil spirits,
who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.