[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: "I love my job.."

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
"I love my job.."
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   [1]Michael Totten reports from Baghdad

     BAGHDAD â "We want to use you as bait," Sergeant Eduardo Ojeda from
     Los Angeles, California, told me before I embedded with his unit on
     what was shaping up to be a night raid.

     "Excellent," I said. "That's why I'm here."

     This is what passes for black Army humor in Baghdad.

     "Our TST [time-sensitive target] blew up a vehicle and killed four
     soldiers and an interpreter in the next AO [area of operations],"
     he said. "He's somewhere in our AO now."

     He could tell by the frozen and dubious look on my face that I
     wasnât sure I wanted to go on the mission.

     "Donât worry," he said. "These guys hardly ever fight back when we
     nail them. And they always lose when they do. Come on. Let's go
     f*ck 'em up."

     I donned my body armor and helmet, strapped my Nikon around my
     neck, and jumped in the back of one of the Humvees...

   Extraordinary stuff.

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References

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