Posted on Aug 16, 2016
SGT Robert Cupp
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SGM Erik Marquez
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Technically I nor my unit did not pull the load, but we did escort and provide security in a combat zone, though known IED laden roads, with a penchant for direct fire attacks as well.

The load we risked our lives for???? Stuffed toys ..we delivered two HEMETT trailers full of conex inserts filled with stuffed toys to two starving Iraqi villages.
I was not told what the load was, I assumed it was relief supplies as we had moved before, food, water, medicine. I was embarrassed when the load was dropped, the village elders opened the inserts and there was no food... I was literally asked the iraqi equivalent of "What the fuck is this, we can't eat this " My Terp was scared to tell me what they were saying thinking I was going to Kill them all and go home.......he saw me getting more and more pissed and mistook it for being mad at the villagers, when i was really pissed at the Pokemon errr, Polar Bear Battalion leadership that sent this crap. As we drove away, we watched a large bonfire consume the containers of toys.

My unit lost an entire shipment of sustainment rations that week as well... and had to be re ordered from the BN that we were tasked to. I dont think we ever figured out what happened to the HEMTT load of food ,,it was on the patrol base one day, and missing the next. Strange....
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LCpl Sanford McClelland
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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SGT Robert Cupp roger that, you know the saying, YOU CALL, WE HAUL, I have pulled all kind of Waco loads, I guess its part of being a Trucker. M931 tractor pulling a MKT (CHOW-LOAD), wow it was A LOAD ON STERIODS.

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