User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine Part Cinq/@comment-1260687-20100331220146

@Dolton: During my last deployment, our Staff Sergeant (some stupid fucking boot that hadn't spent a day in country prior to the deployment) was operating as our convoy commander. About a mile out from Camp Fallujah, we took heavy fire from our left flank, and one of our gunners was hit in the hand, removing a finger and causing a pretty terrible wound; he returned fire and killed three enemy personnel and then dropped down into the HMMWV to patch his hand up. Another Marine jumped on the gun, and the A-Driver requested permission to detach a few guntrucks and fast-track the wounded Marine back to base. We received no response from the convoy commander's truck, and broke off on our own, taking my HMMWV and an MTVR as an escort for the HMMWV with the wounded gunner. After the jackass noticed us leave the main element, his HMMWV takes off and follows us, leaving the rest of the Marines without a convoy leader. We pull into base at the safest maximum speed we can take turns, blowing past checkpoints, and this guy TRIES TO STOP US at the clearing barrels, trying to get us to unload our weapons, because we're not supposed to have loaded weapons on base. We ignored his ass and took him to Surgical. Stupid fucks like that have no reason to insert themselves in the business of war. Goddamn POGs. They always need a grunt to hold their hand and tell them what to do.