about me

[pouge tanker]

Im a former marine now serving as platoon sgt in my unit.

I transfered to the Army Guard about 16 years ago....

Im a E5/sgt (Im also not very pc...hence the 20 year e5)

my unit is a medical unit

738th ASMC out of Indiana.

I served in Desert Storm as a Marine tanker then went to the army.

served in iraq from oct 05 to oct 06. first six months there I was on a MiTT team working with the IA at Camp Taji...mainly training their new medics...did the very few and far between missions outside the wire

for the record: I AM NOT NOR HAVE I EVER BEEN CONSIDERED A "DOOR KICKER"

after my MiTT mission ended I returned to my unit which had Golby Clinic at Camp Victory (the clinic with the fountain) we were the unit that had it that it was actually nice looking...after we left I guess it really went to crap)

after I returned stateside, I was title 10 for a year at Camp Atterbury with the 205th IN BDE (reservist unit based in Indy) training CLS for units going over to OIF, OEF and KFOR

anyway...my point

please feel free to shoot me any questions about the 68 field and if I dont know the answers I sure as hell can find them for you.

you may also email me if need be

sgtbussing@yahoo.com

in addition to my being a 68W I am also a emt in the real world currently attending paramedic school.

[C/SSGT Seifer]

Thank you for offering to give us info. If I have any questions I will be sure to ask.

[Drill for life]

Thank you for serving.

[C/ZOOMIE]

What exactly is a, "door kicker"? Thank-you for serving and welcome to the forum!

[Buffa1oso1di3r]

A door kicker is a guy that kicks in doors.

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBex3WWHWbw

[ColdWarrior]

What exactly is a, "door kicker"? Thank-you for serving and welcome to the forum!


Door kicker is a term commonly applied to those soldiers and Marines who have spent time in either Iraq or Afghanistan, searching houses for the presence of insurgents, often while under enemy fire. Hence, "door kickers".

[pouge tanker]

Door kicker is a term commonly applied to those soldiers and Marines who have spent time in either Iraq or Afghanistan, searching houses for the presence of insurgents, often while under enemy fire. Hence, "door kickers".

very good answer....and as a reminder...I am not nor have I ever been one....

[steelplateinmyhead]

http://www.milspecmonkey.com/store/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/ed1161a1923b724bbe2d048ff4885b79.jpg

Some door kickers and fire eaters from 2 years ago.

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/71/l_6e4ba737f3234e6ca7ea5ec7b295791b.jpg

My son is among them.

In asking him what it was like to go into a house with hostiles in it his reply was...

Dad do you remember when I was charged by that black bear, years ago, during deer season?

Yes I do son.

Do you remember after the confrontation, I walked around the ridge and was white as a sheet?

Yes I do son.

Well every time that I go into a house and those people are in there, it is like facing the bear again.

I understand son.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v442/echohotel12/TheBearHunter2003.jpg

[Warsong]

It almost looks like they're wearing flight suits.

[steelplateinmyhead]

They are.

Nomex doesn't melt.

[Warsong]

Now THAT is interesting. Probably a better answer than "flame retardant" ACU's. We could have used three of those suits on 8 March.

[steelplateinmyhead]

When exposed to a flash fire, the gloves and suit turns to a fine ash.

I saw it work 30 years ago when fuel in a power turbine section of a helo flashed and took the sleeve off a Marine's flight suit during maintaince.

Polypropaline and nylon clothing is bad stuff in a flash fire.