Friends, I got this today in email from Jerry, a retired Navy Lt. Commander and Vietnam veteran, so thought I'd share it with you.  The story is WELL worth the read, even without the below-mentioned image.  --SB
...Is this the rest of the story ????
 
Got this email today ...... wish we could hear more stories from our GI's.
 
Fantastic!!!
 
Subject: A DIFFERENT KIND OF NEWS REPORT
 
Renee Goeppner 
I got this from a friend of mine.   I never heard a news report on this.  All the news reports I hear have been nothing but bad.   Nothing good.  Telling me "We have no hope! We can't defeat an Islamic enemy!" and so on and so forth.   You've all heard it. 
 
Simply put:  I don't honestly believe we have a "news media" in the United States anymore; the "National News" has been replaced with what I am convinced is "National Anti-American Propaganda".   NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR,  Time, New York Times, etc. etc. etc. never tire of this. 
 
So here is a story for you.    I have a picture of what was left of the car after the bomb.    I will try to attach it for you.
 
 Here is the story as reported from a Captain that is there. Living it.  This is not from some "reporter".
Enjoy the read.
 
 (I HAVE X'd OUT THE CAPTAIN'S NAME BUT ALL ELSE IS HIS WORD-FOR-WORD REPORT)
--- Bill ---
 
 
From US Army Captain xxxxxxxx who is in Afghanistan

Hi everyone. 

I'm still alive but freezing my tail off.  We got 8 inches of snow last week
and it reached 5 degrees below zero that night.  That's not why I'm e-mailing
though. 

You may have heard about a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul last Thursday.
It was at one of our FOB's (Forward Observation Bases) about 27 miles from
here. 
But the real story is why no one was killed. 

We employ several thousand Afghans on our various bases.  Not to mention the
economy that is fed by the money these locals are making. 

Some are laborers and builders, but some are skilled workers.  We even have
one Afghan that just became OSHA qualified, the first ever.  Some are skilled
HVAC workers. 

Anyway, there is this one Afghan that we call Rambo. 

We have actually given him a couple of sets of the new ACU uniforms (the new
Army digital camouflage) with the name tag RAMBO on it. 

His entire family was killed by the Taliban and his home was where our base
currently resides.  So this guy really had nowhere else to go. 

He has reached such a level of trust with US Forces that his job is to stand
at the front gate and basically be the first security screening. 

Since he can't have a weapon, he found a big red pipe.  So he stands there at
the front gate in his US Army ACU uniform with his red pipe.

If a vehicle approaches the gate too fast or fails to stop he slams his pipe
down on their hood. 

Then once the gate is lifted the vehicle moves on the 2nd gate where the US
Army MP's are.  So he's like the first line of defense. 

Last Thursday at 0930 hrs a Toyota Corolla packed with explosives and some
Jack Ass that thinks he has 72 Virgins waiting for him approached the gate. 

When he saw Rambo he must have recognized him and known the gig was up. 

But he needed to get to that 2nd gate to detonate and take American lives.
So he slams his foot on the gas which almost causes the metal gate to go up
but mostly catches on the now broken windshield. 

Rambo fearlessly ran to the vehicle, reached thru the window and jerked the
suicide bomber out of the vehicle before he could detonate and commenced to
putting some red pipe to his heathen ass.

He detained the guy until the MP got there. 

The vehicle only exploded when they tried to push it off base with a robot
but no one was hurt. 

I'm still waiting for someone to give this guy a medal or something.  Nothing
less than instant US citizenship or something. 

A hat was passed around and a lot of money was given to him in thanks by both
soldiers and civilians that are working over here. 

I guess I just wanted to share this because I want people to know that it's
working over here. 

They have tasted freedom.  This makes it worth it to me.

 XXXX X. XXXXXXX, CPT, US ARMY
 
 
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