Rules of Engagement, by Citizen Smash the Indepundit

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Comes:'Rules of Engagement' from The Indepundit.

It was January 2003, and the sun had just risen on a chilly winter morning over the Persian Gulf. We were preparing to go on the first operational watch of our deployment, protecting the port of Shuaiba from possible attacks by terrorists or enemy commandos. My sailors had just been issued weapons and ammunition, and several of them appeared a little bit nervous about
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Read it ALL, it is short and it a powerful.