31st December

New year’s eve and fucking Air Hat’s fuck up a massive opportunity for us at Qudrat. It was 2200, I was up on the super sanger with H…., and I spotted 2 pax in a field digging 950m away, due west right next to the Neb. IED, so I started to record it on the Dew Drop, and radioed it into the Op’s room. ‘Good eye’s Burt you’re going to be joined in a minute by M…., TJ and J.., after they joined us in the super sanger, we all watched back the footage and saw them dropping in a charge and witnessed them laying out the wire a bit later on. Mega these bloke’s are going to get fucked, so the boss radioed it up to Zero and they made the worst decision ever.

H…. to take the shot and take them out with a shot! at 950m in the dark, that’s a fucking hard shot. Call sign UGLY was in the air but the nob head forgot his NVG’s, so that’s fucked that option. In the end TJ was snapping because the only logical system to take out these two was the Javelin, but he was not granted permission to fire which fucking sucked. No hellfire, GMPG was not asked to be used because the spray of rounds at that distance could miss, so it was left to H….. He took 5 shots with M…. bringing him on, on the 5th shot it landed right in the middle of the 2 blokes who then fucked right off, J.. then said ‘AWHH FUCK THIS’, and blatted of on the GPMG but by then they were fucking gone.

Bad night how 2 IED laying Taliban were able to get away on a night of bad call’s, people forgetting NVG’s and people not able to use their weapon systems they’ve spent their careers training with! Happy New Year!