06 April 2009

Bang, you're dead

Courtesy of Rico's 'cousin' Kevin Kitterman, this classic inspirational poster:
This nineteen-year-old ex-cheerleader (now an Air Force sniper) was watching a road that led to a NATO military base when she observed a man digging by the road. She engaged the target (i.e., she shot him). Turned out he was a bomb maker for the Taliban, and was burying an IED to be detonated when a US patrol walked by thirty minutes later; it would have certainly killed and wounded several soldiers.
The interesting part of this story is the shot was measured 725 yards; that's 25 yards longer than seven football fields. She shot him as he was bent over burying the bomb; the shot went through his butt and into the bomb, which detonated and he was blown to pieces..
Rico says that he doubts the part of the story which says the poster was made by the Air Force; they probably wouldn't have had a typo in it if they had... (And it should be "blends in better..than" not "blends in better..like" anyway...)

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