Here's a thread to share any stories you have while playing this game. Whether they're funny, sad, crazy, or whatever, post them here.

I remember almost getting through an entire level on authentic. we almost completely pushed the germans out of the town, and my squad and myself were unhurt for the most part. I had my squad lined up further back down the line while I moved in solo to scout out the area. after identifying the enemy, I turned around and saw a german standing directly in front of me with his K-98 rifle pointed right at my head. before I could even panic-fire, he pulled the trigger and sent me to oblivion. that was one of the few times that I've ever actually been startled by something in a video game. :P

i'm wondering..... if this about game play i'm your man.or as a marine corp lt. their a tons of story's i'd like to tell yeah,just ask.

Ok this happend with me last wednsday,in-game and out game,..... (in-game).

the level of TOM AND JERY..

When mac just finish his legendary line ;baker pick off as many as you can; i woke up an realized i was getting shot at (again).

And at that moment my portable dvd-player was playing the oh so crtitisized (spelling) movie Saving private ryan,the part of the sniper attack,when I saw my first german in a long time i'd aimed my 1903 springfield (using no scope or crosshairs) and shot him in the neck,he was dead before his a** hit the ground reloaded and shot the other one in his knee and corrion killed him.

(actually their is a guy called sam corrion in my squad he's a true bia fan 0 ).

At that time i ordert hartsock to take cover behind the wall/debry at your right and ordert him a suppressing fire at the germans comming out off the blown-up house at your left when they where dead,i moved my-self to the right and start taking out the german infantry and killed them with 2 head-shot (one shot one kill,that the game,making your fame (army slang) and killed the other enemy infantry,nothing special......

Then the german counter attack with armor...

When p.f.class kevin legett starts screaming at the radio and mac orders you to go down the church (nice church b.t.w) I always stay up-stairs and start shooting at the germans at the the left side (when your down that left) taking out enemy boogies is just another thing i'm good at except playing the blues,rebuilding cars and tanks.

When the last german counter attack with where manly infantry my assault team (corrion mcreary courtland) where taking by suprise and courtland gott killed (poor courtland) I hurried down the stairs reloding the springfield sniper gun when i'd reach the battlefield again i swong out the legendary m1 garand rifle a.l.a (Another Legendary Action) rambo style and shot four germans with ONE clip,then i took cover reloaded and ordert corrion a suppersing fire command and the germans where in a ''not so pleasant place''.

When corrion took out that part off ''german's finest'' with a single grenade it was time for the tank,and ohhhh boy do i got some experience with those things....

Move and shoot,shoot and scoot,thats what i was told....

When the the german panzerkampfwagen 4 ausf.f starts shooting at yeah or any big thing with barrell has ''the same size off a telephone pole'' their is only one thing one my mind ''get the hell outta here''
somethimes the german tank hatch is open and you can see the german tank commander i ''always have shoot him'' (you know i have to repeat this over and over,when you here rifle fire or mg fire or anything that sounds that can kill you,gett your head down'').

When i see the tank making it's entrance and MAC and Legget sceaming ''where obriski left that god damn bazooka-legget it's on the north-side of the church'' kil the germans and speed towards the bazooka,i always change the '03 springfield for the bazooka and move away
from the tanks location and take out the kraut armor and how i do that ''well ladies that's a secret''........ '

Ok almost forgot it . OUT GAME, REAL TROUBLE REAL BULLETS.

that same wednsday it was pretty cold and early,matter in fact it was so cold where i was that a donky got goose bumps later in the day around 15.30 whe had a routine job,patroll and searching
(what i can tell isn't much but its wuth it) we encounter a small enemy force to our left +- 1400 feet when i was using MIMI ( a real mg42 belonging to my grandfather who lifd trough ww2,korea and vietnam and then passed down my father who use her from 1969/1975 it was my turn to use her) then i felt somthing on my right shoulder thought i was hit i turnd to my left and then i was cought by suprise, And i still can here what the women said,

CNN,news whats your role in this terible war being one of the longest soldiers in the battlefield. because i did'nt heared it right I shouted ''WHAT'' and then the women almost pressed the micropfone into my nose and got blinded by the lights of the camera (thank god i was wearing my sun-glasses) because that light was bright,then i ask the camera man to turn off his camera he rejected by turned it off becausehe was looking at MIMI.. ,

Then i dropped the camera to the ground asking everone to ''back away'' the did it and it shot the camera with 20 bullets (thats way you didn't say it on CNN ) And i walked away.

i realy hope i could help you out with this one.

wow, thanks for posting. those are pretty sweet. you can post whatever stories you have.

Who,looks like you like these stories,so fasten your seat belt got anotherone for yeah''.

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Originally posted by Sgt.Cherry11:
wow, thanks for posting. those are pretty sweet. you can post whatever stories you have.

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After that ''incident'' with the CCN camera and repoter,whe left that small village and walked further and then in the distance about 5 miles we heared a ohhh so familiar sound it was' ''whap,whap,whap,whap,whap'' we looked around thinking it was a Chinook transport helicopter,so we dind't payed attention to it but a minute later,my co gunner named Jack saw what it was and said the ooohhh so legendary words ''eeeehhhh fellas, whe have a small situation over here,-then i said,what do you mean''.

The helicopter that was comming toward us was none other than ''BUBBA If you don't know ''who or what'' BUBBA is,let me explain.

BUBBA is a real gem,and a nuttball because bubba is a vietnam era bell-1 heuy gun-ship helicopter,with original vietnam paint (with has been paint over poorly)and bubba is jinxt, evrythime that piece off junk shows up ''we've got trouble''.

the helicopter landed with no problem and then someone gave us the command to climb in the copper,and whe took off,together with some Elvis presly music and other Vietnam time music we left.....

If you know the legendary movie ''Full metal jacket'' (my favorite) that part when you're in a chopper an some grazy idiot start shooting with a m60 machine http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://tri.army.m...1%26hl%3Dnl%26sa%3DN

Then I just had the best idea off my life (exept joinig the marine corp)why not rebuild MIMI into a ''death machine''a death machine is/was a rebuilted m60 machine gun with a longer barrell lowering the weight and in-creasing range and a legendary yet to beat record off 3000 bullets.

Its sounds strange and believe me i,ve heared it all frome excuses to death-letters but it ''is'' capeble becuz MIMI was rebuilt into a mg3 (sorry if i'm wrong) in late 1950 by the german army (bundeswehr) she was addapted form the german ww2 7.92 bullet (.38 cal) to the american 7.62 (.30 cal) bullet,by welding a smaller breech to fit the American bullet,so if i ever (hope to god it i'll never happen) runs out off ammo I just yank out the breech and insert a bigger bullet...

My ohh so legendary move with the camera....
It sounds strange and all,but i haven't heared a damn ting fromm CNN again,mind to keep it that way.

This is kinda funny everytime i show up my face at a station and a freshmen (rookie) ask at a sarge or someone else who i am he hears 2 ansers ''that the redd baron,-what ya haven't heared from him he's also know as the ''camera man'' or everytime i show up at a office everyone give's me a thums up .....god, news spreads sure quik these days.

This was pretty much what i can remember for this week,but hold on next week i gott a new ship full off tankers rookie's this way and i'll keep you ''up-to date'' the only thing i'll have to right now is not forget my sun screen and i have to count the bullet holes in a hummer (again).

hehe, alright. I'll be looking foreward to them! be careful.

hhmmmm lets see what did i do today...... oh i remember,because to-day was pretty quite,and we had nothing to do,someone had the best idea i've heared so far.

What if you don't know how to kill the time,and you have 6 m1a2 abraham tanks at your possession,why not hold a drag race and a Nascar race (nascar means ''National Asociation Stock Car Auto Race) in the midle off the dessert,know one would find out........ they did, .First we say nothing but dessert and a lama or a camel I can't see the differents,they all look the same,smells the same and spit the same.

Later they found out that were was missing,and start screaming at the radio,so i talked my self out (i'm pretty good wit that one) and i made the oohh so wise words ; don't wory sarge i'll bring 'em so clean back that they look they are comming out off the show room''.

They agreed with it,because the tanks were schelduald (spelling) to go back to a repair station and got checked from the fist nut to the engine/gearbox and everything in between ,but it diden't end there.When we've got back,we got to here to clean that ''spotscar'' from buttom up to the radio mast,. if seen mud,sand,gravel,grass and more in places you wont think it's possible.Those places are the exhaust,the gas tank the driver seat the lenses and even in the barrel off the main gun.

Yesterday i've recived a mail from my dad who served in vietnam from 1969 to 1975,he ask if i recieved those legendary movie's like Platoon full metal jacket adolf typpe wrighter and bombshell betty and a funny joke direckted straight to Bubba and gose like this,.........He Bubba what's the difference between GOD and a helicopter pilot,simple GOD don't tell every one that he's a helicopter pilot.(vietnam era joke ).

Tommorrow my unit has to walk 52 miles to our next spot,so I have enough time to clean Mimi with shoe pollish,to make here back in black insted off grey.............steve

cool.

hey I was just wondering where these stories came from. were you deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan at some point?

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Originally posted by Sgt.Cherry11:
cool.

hey I was just wondering where these stories came from. were you deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan at some point?

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No these stories are comming straight out off Iraq,altough i've been in Afghanistan before a couple times before i went to Iraq.

I'm now curently in south-west Iraq,to keep a major highway ''clean'' for civilians to use them.

If you know the story I posted before with the CCN camera crew,well... there back,and with an official complain's they where.

Cruwed behavior (spelling) off CNN material.

Swearing in the midle off an interview (i was getting shot at ).

Dragging them with me,to places where was no light for an interview (its a fr**king war).

Putting civilains in great risk (danger) for no reasons or what so other.

Destroyed material off the CCN news company,The part when i shot the the camera with my rebuilt mg-42,i shot it with 20 bullets.

Walking away in the midle off a interview,wich they calld it ''cruwed behavior in front off a women'' i didn't even knew we was even started yet so i went on by yelling my gunners to lay down a suppressing fire.

Not speaking english for a wile in the midle off the attack.
I can explain that one pretty easy.

You see I was born in the netherlands 27 years ago,and i left that country when i was 4,then i lived for abaut 3 years in germany,still speaking the Dutch and german language real good.
Then my father and me moved over to ''good ol stateside'' and i joined the mickey mouse club at age 9 (my dad is american,he's a vietnam veteran) and with my own supprise i was able to make it to the semi-finale but been kicked out by persones who has more talent,so i didn't made it to the finale off '94

So in the midle off the attack (or something smaller perhaps) when you got shot at and their is a camera crew following every move you're doing and you cath a small bullet fragment in your left leg well then,you may swear in every language you know .

But one thing they are realy greatfull for.

Just a few moments before it was getting ''hot'' the camera-man triped over a small piece off wood and fell down,i saw that and gathered his stuff together and pused him in the good direction and may even saved his life;Note i did that without carrying a weapon or something else 'cept the my sun-glases i was carying,and almost I was shot in my a** doing so.

I've also recieved the ''bill'' for desroying the camera 3500 dollars i'm not that stupid to that bill.

About the part with the 52 miles march.

About half way on the trip we met with some lost 101 airborne fellas and they walk with us too their location they where needed to be at that time,during the march we sang songs like these.

A helluva way to die. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgsdexkv18

Candyman (my favorite) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4kR8OQCrlQ

Boogie woegie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wiVkdVPGoY

and teenagers great song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6f3Upe81Wo .Seriously i know some who sleeps with a .44 magnum underneath his pillow.

and the lattest hits off tmf and mtv. www.tmf.com www.mtv.com my i-pod is making over time.

I hope i could help you out here,but i've gotta go i've been yelled at again,and i have 54 boring after action reports to type. STEVE .

''No matter what you heared off war,or seen something on t.v,in real life its beuatifull. colonel Steve Redd Barton.''

I see.

Well in that case, I give you my full support and will be praying for your safety, as well as your comrades.

54 reports! Wow! Good luck with those. ;P

thanks.

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Originally posted by Sgt.Cherry11:
I see.

Well in that case, I give you my full support and will be praying for your safety, as well as your comrades.

54 reports! Wow! Good luck with those. ;P

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thanks

'~ As I walk trough the western dessert of Iraq,something keeps bothering me,i just realized that I'm almost at the same age as my father was when he was in Vietnam,and he nearly lost his life there,I'm wondering if I make it out of this turkey shack.....alive.'' me!!. woah that was a deep thought.


My Holliday.

As i'm sitting inside a german metro car I almost fell a sleep,well sleep... I just keep getting flashbacks of al those men who diden't made it out of their alive.

Of all the bumbs and bruzers that my friends and unit has to suffer,and all the cassualties and wounded who have a entire life over but they will be marked for the rest of their lifes,
How they be in sittuation that wil be like this 'look momy look at that man,look at his leg'..... i hate those kind of moments.

Underaged engaged.

April 25 2005
Operation Mickey Mouse.

At the end of a mission what should be ''a fish in the water'' it went wrong,......real wrong


In the midle of the counter-attack wich was pressing us hard down into a spot we couldn't call in air support,I met a young first private with the name Jimmy wich was in of my boot-camp training as the roll of support gunner (just like me)....he was carrying the belts of ammo i needed for the rol off main gun in the counter-attack because MIMI (mg42/mg3) was running dangerously low on ammo (I think i had only 30 bullets left.) Jimmy ran up to the spot i was and gave me 4 full belts of ammo,and I think i've seen him before around here but i'm not sure.

The thing is with the private called Jimmy is that he was the smallest private i've seen in nine years,and i've seen thousands of soldiers,the thing is he barely made it out of boot camp ,he wasen't the strongest bloke around here.he was just 1 meter 69 high and he almost,almost couldn't walk with full gear attached to him (we gunners carry double ammount of weight and gear) but the thing is and thats why I let him pass and helped him a bit on the obstackle coures is.......... THAT BOY COULD RUN,MATER IN FACT I'M SURE HE COULD RUN FASTER THAN THE DEVIL ON SNEAKERS.

I stil can hear what he said at the moment we met again.....

-sir here i have the new ammo you ask for sir.

You look like you're scared boy,is this the first time in combat son.

- Yes sir i'm a support gunner sir but this is the firs time in Iraq sir,I hope to be just like the red baron some day.

The baron who is the red baron,the original red baron is Manfred von Righthoven that ww1 pilot that went nuts and attacked a single brittish army,he got killed!!!.

-No sir some men keep talking about a lieutenant about you're age sir and he carrying a rebuilt mg-42 sir,isn't that an old german weapon sir.

well private just look to you're left and behold their she is.

-'she'' sir.

you're other left, dip-stick.

''he turned his head to his left this time and saw MIMI and said the words.

- oh my god,thats the gun there talking about you're the red baron you're carrying the gun called MIMI.

well son A. Dont call in the help of our lord at this time his recuest is now needed some where else. B dont swear i'm pretty sure you're parents aint gona like it boy and C. the name MIMI is from a french freedom figter at the begin of ww1 she was against the german idea's off killing the jews,just for that thaugt,she got killed,althougt i'm not entirely sure but it could be also the first letter of girl-friends of my german grandfather who Mimi still belongs,and yes they do call me the red baron sometimes although i'm not proud of it,it goes with the flow you know.

-shall I go with you sir,you could also use some new men in this place

That will be fine private,say when did you landed in this place any way.

- 3 days ago sir,and it was also the first time that i flew in a passenger-plane sir.

You're that kid in one of my squad who god gave him the talent to run like the speed of light aren't you.

-yes sir i'm a pretty good runner sir.

as we walked back to our rendevouz location we talked more over the gun called MIMI he did ask me everything,everything how she was used in ww2 in the area around Nijmegen and Aachen and even in Berlin and how se was deployed in the Korean war (1950/1953) and how my father used her in the Vietnam war.

At the time we got back to our vehicles and tried to get back on time,he ask to me to go on a photo together so i did that and at the time the photo was taken we heared some Iraqi screaming and at that time private firts class Jimmy was shot in his neck.......his neck.

He dropped to the ground and cried for a medic,but the thing is,there where no medics -why,the mission was to check and clear a small village with no serrious help.

I was able to reach BUBBA on my portable radio and he reached the spot of combat and together with the help of some one else we where able to load pvc.jimmy in the helicopter and took of.

Jimmy was bleeding seriously out of his wound in his neck and lost a great amount of blood BUBBA was trying to reach any kind of medical help he could find,I gave Jimmy even my own sulva and fist-aid kit i was carying,at the same time BUBBAwas calling the minutes to reach the hospital,PVC Jimmy was still fighting for his life with all the power he got left in his bleeding body but it was to late as A religious man mysself I think that it wasen't his time to die,-WHY you may ask yourself......PVc Jimmy was just 17 years old he had a job at mcdonnalds and was saving up money for a music concert that why alteast i think he joint the Marine Corps.

I dont now how old you are when your reading this but i'm 10 years older then was,so in a helicpoter above Iraq a very joung ''kid'' died now the only thing i have to do wright now a death letter just like the one in BIA EIB to inform a mother that they lost a child in action C.I.A.


This was a short after action report.
Operation Mickey Mouse.
April 25 2005.


''I Think it was the only time I cried wile i was in a war,I'm now heading for Holland because I was lucky enough to win a week out of war,I can wait to get to see my mom,i haven't be at my moms place in ....... 10 years i think,I just realize that i have a small case of shell-shock in my left hand and everyone keep looking at my hands..... can i help it.

STEVE.