The National Guard Unit we took over operations from was from Oklahoma. They had the Oklahoma Sooners (College) flag hanging everywhere. So the day we completely took over we hung our flag... Mom you will like this!!!
The Denver Bronco Flag!!!
In our first week of being here we got called for a very important mission. A donkey had got himself caught up in our perimeters barbwire so we had to go rescue him. Once we rescued him we had to keep him in our area until we could figure out what to do with him. It's not like we could call the local Animal Shelter. So the higher ups emailed the head guy from Ramadi (the town) and told him we had a donkey and didn't want him. He told us he would pay us $50 and give us 2 horses to keep it! HAHA, it was so funny. So soldiers actually had to feed him and take him on walks, I never laughed so hard watching all this. I am so glad I wasn't one of those soldiers writing a letter home about this... "So mom, I came to Iraq to serve our country and am doing it proudly by walking a donkey everyday." A few of us wanted to make t-shirts with a picture of the donkey with him as our mascots. We thought this motto would be perfect...
"the Colorado National Guard, a bunch of Jackasses."
So, are you going to paint that donkey white and use it for the Denver "Bronco" mascot? Did you check it for a donkey bomb?
ReplyDeleteThat is hilarious!!! i think you should make shirts like that! i love moms idea of painting in white!
ReplyDeleteand i love the bronco flag!!
Hi Steph, It's Lorraine. I read this story about the donkey and laughed so hard. Poor donkey. But I guess if worse came to worse you would have a tasty meal right?
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