No more roleplayers When we got mobilized in Ft.hood, we got trained up on a lot of stuff, most notably and obviously how to react to and respond to IEDs. I couldn't even go into detail into the training because of the nature of the threat and the battlefield out there is ever changing. The enemy watches us, they videotape the attacks and ambushes and watch how we respond to them, and they change their tatics. And thus we change ours. So there is no permanent way we deal with the enemy. But during our training in ft. hood we had civilians dressed as, 'Haji'. 'haji' is the name we give all Muslims. Its very similar to a catch all word for the people here. The local food here is 'hajji' food, what the men wear , we call 'haji man dress', the pirated movies we buy from 'hajji' , For those that don't know, the Haj is a spiritual pilgrimage Muslims go on to visit Mecca or Medina. And when a Muslim makes the pilgrimage I think they are called hajis. But we call them all Hajis. Some people think its offensive, for me it's just convenient. But I haven't had a lot of contact with them or spoken to them, though they are everywhere on base. They do a lot of things I wouldn't want to do, like clean the portable latrines and other menial labor stuff, like digging holes or filling sand bags. Back in ft. hood when we trained we had civilians dress in 'haji' wear and pretend to be Iraqis, some were acting as innocent civilians and some were dressed as civilians but were acting as the enemy with bomb vests and other weapons. I got so used to training with roleplayers that when I got here and I saw a real Iraqi with the haji headwear on I went up to him and , was like, whats up and than I realized it wasn't a roleplayer and this wasn't a training are in texas.
Letters from Iraq #3
Letters from Iraq #3
Letters from Iraq #3
No more roleplayers When we got mobilized in Ft.hood, we got trained up on a lot of stuff, most notably and obviously how to react to and respond to IEDs. I couldn't even go into detail into the training because of the nature of the threat and the battlefield out there is ever changing. The enemy watches us, they videotape the attacks and ambushes and watch how we respond to them, and they change their tatics. And thus we change ours. So there is no permanent way we deal with the enemy. But during our training in ft. hood we had civilians dressed as, 'Haji'. 'haji' is the name we give all Muslims. Its very similar to a catch all word for the people here. The local food here is 'hajji' food, what the men wear , we call 'haji man dress', the pirated movies we buy from 'hajji' , For those that don't know, the Haj is a spiritual pilgrimage Muslims go on to visit Mecca or Medina. And when a Muslim makes the pilgrimage I think they are called hajis. But we call them all Hajis. Some people think its offensive, for me it's just convenient. But I haven't had a lot of contact with them or spoken to them, though they are everywhere on base. They do a lot of things I wouldn't want to do, like clean the portable latrines and other menial labor stuff, like digging holes or filling sand bags. Back in ft. hood when we trained we had civilians dress in 'haji' wear and pretend to be Iraqis, some were acting as innocent civilians and some were dressed as civilians but were acting as the enemy with bomb vests and other weapons. I got so used to training with roleplayers that when I got here and I saw a real Iraqi with the haji headwear on I went up to him and , was like, whats up and than I realized it wasn't a roleplayer and this wasn't a training are in texas.