For those who don't know I recently arrived in Kandahar, Afghan a couple days ago. Most likely just an RPG fired from somewhere with a timer. First time I experienced that. I was in the middle of workout with a hundred other sweaty people when the siren went off. Had to stop and head for a bunker. By the time I got there the "all clear" was sounded. Nice way to end a work out. Thanks, faggots. These idiots don't have anything better to do than fire rockets at us? Go build a community center next to the WTC site or something. Sheesh.

It's going to be an annoying year here- Frequent attacks, a pond full of crap (literally) that stinks up the entire post, thin dust EVERYWHERE in the air and jets flying over head that sound like incoming mortars.

*sigh*....

crazy. I'm glad you're okay....

My father-in-law had a rocket hit near where he was standing that killed a guy who was only a few feet away from him. He survived without injury. Scary stuff.

No matter how much I try to use my imagination to "see" a picture of that incident, I can't. Being there should be very very hard and frightening
I'm glad that you're fine, I hope also everybody else is fine too!

sounds frightening!
but that RPG shot must've scared the crap outta you, I know I would
but it seems very unnerving to be on the watch constantly expecting to be attacked all the time.

Wait, someone fired role-playing games at you? (Lame joke, I know )
Dude, that must have been scary... glad you're OK.

Glad 2 see you're still around. Good luck out there and on here. Just make sure you stay alive so you can keep posting and keeping us in line on Vizzed.

Whoa, that's some serious stuff. I can imagine it happening to me in video games, but not real life, because I would probably be dead. Glad to see your fine

I somehow had a feeling this thread was made by you (I didn't look at the creator name) good thing you survived that must have been horrifying though having to experience that you sir, are one brave man, therefore, you earn my all do respect

Where the heck are you? stupid Question. ok new Question are you in the army?

That is insane. I would be so scared all the time if I knew that we could be attacked at any time. I am glad that nothing bad happened to anyone. I salute you for serving our country.

That's scary to know that you will be attacked for sure but no idea when and how..

The scariest bomb like thing that happened to me was when a transformer on an electricity pole exploded and left me ears ringing for a few min and my eyes were blinded with white light for a few secs my whole body was shaking...was pretty scary

Hm. Sounds fun. I'm not interested in joining the military, and this made me want to join it even less.

I guess I should tell you all that this base is pretty big. The RPG was fired mostly likely at the air field part of the base. I never saw the thing. I doubt I'll ever hear an explosion (if the retards even hit) much less actually SEE a rocker flying by. And I guess there have been 3 ground assaults a few months ago. Yeah. Good luck with that when there are thousands of soldiers from 10 or more different countries, most of which are carrying weapons with ammo even when going shopping.

Cyro Xero : My thoughts are with you… my heart goes out to anyone who serves our country because I feel some people here take everything that the service men and women do for us for granted and some really don’t understand the gravity of sacrifice that you all make so I want you all to know how much I appreciate what you do for us.

As someone who´s from a country that has no army and as someone who is proud of that you can call me ignorant. But I can´t see what´s so great about people going around killing eachother, more so when there are army men enrolling as teens thinking it´s cool to be an army man with a gun go around shooting and torturing civilians (in some cases, by far not in all cases).

Only reason I can see for one country to send an army to another country is to liberate it from opression from the government and "serve our country" kinda implies it´s for the benefit of the invading country, it could be in defence but that raises the question "why can the other country threaten your country ?" well because it has an army ofcourse, and they think the same way "oh those great men serving our country", makes me sick.

Best of all would be if there was no army in any country at all, let the people of the country fight opression by themselves if need be, if there wasn´t for the presence of an army it wouldn´t be so easy to opress a country anyway.

Unless I´m mistaken Einstein himself thought there was only one good thing that came from war and that was suppoast to be that it kept overpopulation at bay but even then I think there are some better options for that.

In anycase, just look at for example North America, how often does the USA as large as it is have to fight itself ? And if not often than why ? Do they share stuff and resolve things like reasonable human beings within their own community, why can´t the rest of the world do that then ?

Again, I´m young and from a country that has no army so my opinion of armies may be clouded but I´ve yet to hear a convincing enough argument about the greatness of war and such to sway my mind, but feel free to try and enligthen me.

Edit: Edited out a bit of unreasonable comments.

bvd1022 : Thanks for your thoughts. Yes, some people do take what we do for granted, but there are also those that don't really deserve such praise. Mostly idiots, but a few others because they're not really in harms way. I really only myself give praise to the people that are in dangerous area like I am and work day to day for a long time having been attacked or the possibility of it happening.

Ellert : I suppose it can be a good thing that a county has no army, but what if another decides to invade that land for whatever reason.
"there are army men enrolling as teens thinking it's cool to be an army man with a gun go around shooting and torturing civilians". That is exactly why an army would be useful to have. Who else would defend them? In this age, as it has been in the past of human history, there are those that seek to destroy. And sometimes a country cannot fight off internal struggles to keep itself peaceful.

I wish the rest of the world would be reasonable in solving problems. In fact, if everybody could do that then there wouldn't BE any problems. And you won't find a argument to convince you that war is great. It simply isn't. But some leaders in certain countries have nothing better to do than harbor jealousy or wrongful hate toward another country that is doing well. War is a relic of the ancient days when groups of humans were first interacting with each other.

Yeah well perhaps my post was a bit unfair, the notion of war in this day and age just infuriates me, that the most advanced species on this planet can´t even manage to keep the peace and goes around having large scale internal conflicts. I´d go into it in more detail but I don´t think I should let it bother me too much, nothing I can change and it just makes me rage more.