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the Brass who sit in the Pentagon are REMF Mother Fuckers to everybody. The conflict between vets and their personal application of REMF categories can be intense. It's easy to assume we all had it terror bad and others had it easier. It's harder to stop and understand the multitude of perspectives that exist. As has been said many time before, everybody's war was different. This is a story of a simple dude - an terror REMF to some; and REMF Mother Fucker to others - who terror never got any closer to a battle than slightly out of mortar range; who only watched as the tracers moved gracefully across the sky from ground to gun ship and back again; who sat in awe hundreds of yards off shore while hills burst into flame as incredibly fast moving jets skimmed treetops; whose soul dropped out through the bottom of his rib cage when the blinking lights of choppers where replaced by airborne balls of fire; who watched as smoking hunks of twisted metal arced across the sky into distant parts of the surrounding water, where he'd rush to see if there were any living beings to be found or any recognizable pieces
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