i don't think my life could get anymore exciting

[pixifli]

went on one of my first real missions i guess you could say. i went out with the infantry a few days ago, to do female detainee searches throughout the city. we searched many homes that day. tearing them apart when we found weapons that they said didn't exsist. i searched only a few females. but was in the street when we were shot at, one of the guys i was with was shot in the head. he's alive. only suffers short term memory loss. i had to take down all the names of the males homes we searched along with the factories, and take their pictures. i found dvds of how to learn how to kill us better. things of that nature. ran past hundreds of angry people, yelling and cursing at us, waving their falgs. the crowd grew more intense as soon as they seen us. they were like 15 ft away. i think that was worse then the shot going off. there were so many people, kinda like how you watch cnn and you see all those people on tv. it doesn't seem like much. try being up close, it's so scary.
it was a really long day. even while we drove back our convoy was fired upon with an rpg. i saw the explosion right outside my window. i thank god, i was able to come back alive and not hurt at all.
it just sucks, this is only the beginning, it's only going to get worse the longer we're out here doing these stupid searches. i would hate us to for coming into my home and destroying it.
this shit is crazy, defeintly an experience i won't ever be able to forget. and i don't really think of that as a good thing.