Shoot em in the Face

                In Iraq when boredom is the biggest enemy of them all.  Soldiers do a million different things to kill time weather that’s practicing marksmanship, studying for school, or looking up different sources of porn. People always have to play practical jokes until they get out of hand.

One of our guys “SF Mike” hates eating his food with plastic silverware. He knows there are metal utensils.  The only question is where they are hidden. With doing a little recon he finds out where they might be. There inside other soldiers rooms as dirty dishes that lazy people refuse to take to the kitchen to be cleaned. SF Mike finds two recruits as his back up. As a joke they raid these rooms in a tactical fashion waking people up in the middle of their sleep. In general all SF Mike and his small strike force accomplished was regaining silverware and pissing these guys off and starting their own little war.  

In an act of retaliation the victims of the raid, Casey and Nathan pool together ten American dollars and give it to one of our Iraqi guards so he can buy all the silverware he can.  After the exchange of goods Casey and Nathan go straight to work. They wait for SF Mike to leave his room. They go in and strategically place silverware in every nook and cranny possible where silverware could fit. SF Mike comes back to his room finding the silverware. He does not take it as a joke. He sees it as someone has invaded his personal territory and must pay with extreme prejudice. He grabs a Gamo pellet gun and a tin of ammo and heads up to the roof of the two story building. While on the roof he adjusts himself in a corner where he has cover to conceal himself but yet he has full view of the compound to see everyone that passes by. He waits patiently. Until he sees what appears to be Kaleb. Not knowing who did the crime he considers everyone an accomplice, which he believes they should all pay for the crime of trespassing. He takes aim, he yells at Kaleb to put on his sunglasses for eye protection. Kaleb looks back to his amazement and sees a rifle aiming at him; he puts down his glasses and makes a run for it. SF Mike shoots and misses. Frustrated SF Mike reloads and prepares for the next. The next target SF Mike sees is Brandon and one of the culprits, Nathan. SF Mike takes aim and shoots. It’s a confirmed hit. Nathan runs and takes cover behind a ten foot tall concrete tee wall. Brandon walks casually up to the top of the building. He’s bleeding from his face. His shirt covered in blood. Brandon yelling obscenities at SF Mike walks towards him and pushes him in such force knocking SF Mike down flying backwards into a brick wall and landing on his ass. SF Mike bounced back and pushed Brandon. At this time other people got involved and broke up the soon to be ass beating of the deployment.

SF Mike received punishment through the Law of the United States Military. He was forced to be taken to a different base and wait for the repercussion of his actions. We never found out what happened with SF Mike. As for Brandon he received medical attention and was thankful the pellet didn’t go all the way through his lower lip because he would not be able to put in a chew.