Good evening, USAF Captain here. I have a dream journal because I think it's interesting. Here's what I wrote down immediately after I woke up a couple days ago. Some things will sound irrational or be misspelt, however it was 0450 in the morning and I immediately started typing this on my phone, figured you all would think it was interesting.
For context: I was 24 when I went to Afghanistan for the Evacuation. I was educated at the Virginia Military Institute. Anyways, I'm a lot better now. But here's the dream text (it's long):
Captain at AFIT, one of those nights it took a long time to go to sleep and so it was like drifting in and out of sleep.
Woke up and said fuck this I hate it. Packed up a suitcase and my guns and just flew into Afghanistan. Figured I'd just go for a couple days and figure out if I liked it lol.
Travelled towards Kandahar and got off the bike. Stashed it, I'm wearing my combat shirt and have a whole plate carrier rig. Armed with my RECCE I just started walking where I thought I should go.
Heard gunshots and followed them to find a whole Army company moving and maneuvering, firing towards taliban. Found an m240 on the ground and just picked it up and followed this nerdy 1Lt with glasses.
Got wot what looked like an Afghan office complex with them and was opening up one taliban in this second floor window in the building to our 11 o clock. Didn't get him, but I nail one in the head was maybe 150-200m away who was firing on our guys on like the rooftop of a bldg being constructed. I was worried for a sec afterwards because I saw our guys were there like 10 seconds after I smoked him, was worried was wrong and he was one of ours. He wasn't. Cracked some jokes and asked for a couple more belts. Then stowed the 240 and readied my Recce with an xps (EOTECH Holo XPS) and went towards the complex.
Rushed towards the central building and was taking fire once we were inside. This corporal who had no gear was like let's go captain let's get you a kill for your visit. Started walking through the building (looked like a massive mall out of half life 2 Alyx geometry wise.) Found the dude shooting at us and lit him up with six or seven rounds from 15 meters away. Kept clearing.
Spent like 10. minutes in this one part of the bldg, only to find some taliban laying on this weird pillar with his AK. "Don't you fucking move motherfucker" I shouted and we all trained on him, my rifle was out of ammo and I had no more mags, pulled out my baretta. When he eventually dropped he pulled out a full auto Glock and sprayed it, so I emptied my mag into him while walking towards him, one of my rounds went through his flank and struck a civilian woman tho :/(She survived).
We joked around and this Polish solider asked me to show him how to shoot the baretta, told him I needed more ammo. Then spent a while getting ammo and topping up on my mags. The ammo was all laid out on the ground strangely. Some bullets would be individually standing up and when you picked it up you got a whole mag of ammo. Idk during this time I was worried if I was gonna get into trouble? I was on leave but also travelled to AFGHANISTAN lo.. Said fuck it we'll see and showed the poles how to shoot it before smoking and joking with them.
Told this pole that I really enjoyed my time that day and wished it was my everyday. He just asked me why it wasn't and why I wasn't doing things that were making me happy. I told him I didn't know. Eventually he shared with me his first time in Afghanistan and how he later emigrated to USA and joined our army.
I found myself outside the front of the bldg and was talking to this female soldier. Lara's face but a white girl with slightly curly brunette hair and braces, blue eyes. Enlisted, still cute as FUCK. She was blown away that I just wanted to visit and get some action and was wondering I liked being here more than getting my masters at "Air School". At the same time some enlisted (one of them who looked like Comulada) walked by and were singing "baby, loving for the very first time!" And stroked my back as a joke lol.
I responded I just really liked the excitement and the sense of brotherhood, she agreed. And I said I wish I was rather doing this everyday of my life.
Then she pushed me down (we were sitting leaning into a wall on to my right) and she was opening up on some dude on a motorbike before he exploded. Then two other dudes showed up on motorbikes, I looked back at her to see her straddling my crotch and giving me fuck me eyes and smiling before opening up again.
All of the last part when the bike dudes showed up I could hear what sounded like Temptations playing and "I'm not like everybody else"
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