Hello,
Can any vets and people who have just returned from a tour of duty as an infantryman post what their first real combat experience was, and how they felt?

Before I get lots of negative comments telling me how its personal, horrible to ask or anything like that, if you dont like it, don't reply.

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Tunstall91

Hello,
Can any vets and people who have just returned from a tour of duty as an infantryman post what their first real combat experience was, and how they felt?

Before I get lots of negative comments telling me how its personal, horrible to ask or anything like that, if you dont like it, don't reply.

Thanks.

If you work this correctly, you may be able to make a TV mini-series out of the replies. There's some really good production companies around nowadays!

Like this; http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rc...7Cl7LACXg9EgFA

My first contact with a vet was about 6 months ago.

It was a canine/motor vehicle interface that prompted me to attend, and as can be expected it was something of a traumatic experience. I cannot speak for my dog however, as she doesn't speak my language.

On my arrival at his practice, I was apprehensive, but his soothing words and professional attitude soon put me at ease. He very quickly examined the pooch, and handed her over to one of his staff. (I think she was called Jane.) He then left me, in order to deal with an elderly lady who, obviously distraught, had entered the premises with a parrot in her handbag.

It wasn't until 2 weeks later when I received his bill that the real trauma hit home. I was staggered at the amount of my hard earned cash he was demanding. I felt physically sick when I checked my (online) bank account and realised that with so little funds available, I'd have to go with the vets preferred monthly repayment option.

Ive since disposed of my beloved doggy companion as I'm not going through that amount of pain again, I'll be telling you straight.

That in itself put me into a mind altering, stress related grief fest, but I'll save you the agony of reading about it.

Suffice to say, vets? I shit em.

Tunstall, just who the F do you think you are giving orders on here? I refer specifically to your "if you don't like it, don't respond".

You may not realise it but I was a Corporal in Her Majesties Royal Engineers. As such I don't take orders from the great unwashed and certainly not from stray journo's.

Are you the journo who stuck his head in the back of a truck and asked the squaddies in there if they were with the bomb squad and received the response "Nah mate we're with the Woolwich?" If so, your subsequent article in the London press about the bomb squad from Woolwich was highly imaginative - one hesitates to use the words a tissue of lies.

Like Arti et Al, we who have suffered greatly for our Queen and country do not bear our breasts in public and prefer to share our most traumatic times with our anger management counsellors, or a sympathetic bird with big knockers.

Probably my most traumatic moment was realising that I was going to have to get Biblical with a female (I use the term loosely) called "Socks" from the Snake Pit in Hohne.

The full horror of my predicament did not hit me fully until I witnessed her writhing out of her shattered grey, underwear with unmentionable stains of various colours.

That night was long. I thought it would never end.

I still wake up screaming at the memory of it all.

Originally Posted by Tunstall91

Hello,
Can any vets and people who have just returned from a tour of duty as an infantryman post what their first real combat experience was, and how they felt?

Before I get lots of negative comments telling me how its personal, horrible to ask or anything like that, if you dont like it, don't reply.

Thanks.

Hello there!

Thank you for your interest in the psychological welfare of returned soldiers.

I recommend that you ask in this establishment that I beleive is close o your home:

Rainford Ex-Servicemens Club
Cross Pit Lane
Rainford St Helens
Merseyside WA11 8AJ United Kingdom.
Ph: +44.01744-882795

I further recommend you wear white trainers and a badge saying "Kingo's are lazy, thieving chappies"

You can tell them I sent you.

Do let us know how you get on.

One has to wonder what the mongs first post was.

I think the op's first contact may have been with little green men and a BFO anal probe.