8th November
‘CONTACT M1T’, alright all, I am on a high right now, went for a patrol into M1T this morning at 0930, made our way to C26. W……. PID’s a Taliban fighter took a shot, and just missed him by a fraction. Then all hell break’s loose. It started with us being a bit bunched behind the SE wall, not the best idea, but at least we were not caught out in open ground like last time, so we pushed out around the compound as we could get eye’s on the fighter’s. Rounds were pinging up everywhere. I pushed to the SW corner of the compound facing toward C11, where I was contacted from with seconds, rounds falling just short in front of me kicking up dust and dirt right in my face. I started to return fire as soon as I could see the bloke.
He was putting his AK over a wall and spraying, then jumping out in a gap in the wall and taking a sort of aimed hip shot. J.. came over with the GPMG and laid a 100 link down at the bloke from the shoulder, never seen that done before, but I had empty casings fall on top of me as he was right over my head. After he laid that down he just peeled round the corner took a knee and started to reload, so I then lined up the UGL, 350m ‘THUMP’. Get away, I was tracking the round through the air thinking ‘that’s it, go go go go’, and it dropped right behind the wall of C11 right on top of terry! I went all mental laughing my head off, reloading and round, ‘ Hahaha J..
, J.. did you see’, ‘Fucking hell Burt that was a quality shot son, Oi boss Burt just laid a quality round straight into that fucker in C11’. After that round the contact stopped dead from C11. The Turp then run over ‘i-com says, Man is down’. Yes I thought, fuck you, you twat, hope you got a good slice of that.
There were still two more contact point’s that the other lad’s were engaging C20 and spot 27, the lads were just brassing it up big time, it was a devastating show of force, but looked so ally. This lasted for maybe an hour or so, we were able to push down toward C20 fighting along the way, then terry started to bug out because call sign UGLY was called in, and just ruined all the fun. So we doubled back about 150m to a safer zone and then patrolled back to Qudrat as normal, everyone was buzzing big time, that was one of the best contact’s so far where we were able to take the fight properly to the enemy on our term’s. The boss had to calm everyone down on the way back in, all we wanted to do was to go and chase them down and scrap, but through commander’s eye’s that’s probably not the best idea for that situation, still, we gave them a bloody nose today. We got back and had the patrol debrief, it was nice to be recognized for the shot I put down.
Right now I’m on the biggest adrenaline come down ever and I feel knackered but still buzzing at the same time, good contact, birthday tomorrow and RnR soon all good things come in 3’s right.
