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"This soldier’s one mistake?"

"I grabbed my weapon, jumped out, and fired two rounds over their heads; I didn’t want to shoot them - they were just l'il kids."

I know. This actually makes me question the whole account. How many time must he be shot by these "l'il kids" before he decides to stop them? I guess if he was really heroic he would have allowed the poor "l'il kids" to kill him before endangering them.

This actually makes me question the whole account. How many time must he be shot by these "l'il kids" before he decides to stop them? I guess if he was really heroic he would have allowed the poor "l'il kids" to kill him before endangering them.

I guess this will condemn me as one of those disgusting Guard and Reserve types that most paleo-FReepers and wannabes love to hate, but here goes.

I am waiting, barely with any patience left, for my chance to go overseas and join the war. I've done Homeland Security missions since early 2002.

You can't convince me that those human shields were totally unwilling; the cult of martyrdom is too strong over there, to be limited to guys-only. Had I been in this troop's situation, with all the anger I know, I'd have mowed down the whole crowd to get to the badasses who were lighting up my comrades from behind innocents.

Kids, with AK's? As long as I was in their sight picture, and part of their backstop like this man was, guess who'd get return fire?

After reading this account, having several vehicles shot out from under him, hit multiple times, and still kept on keeping on - I can't help but wonder what I'd do, were it me.

But I might never know; I'm still stateside. And that doesn't look like it's going to change.