A picture worth a 1000 words!
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Staff Sgt. Paul Meadows, a cavalry scout section sergeant from Summersville, West Virginia, shakes an Iraqi boy’s hand after giving him a soccer ball during a patrol in southwestern Baghdad, August 10, 2009. Meadows is assigned to Troop C, 150th Armored Reconnaissance Squadron, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team. Picture taken August 10, 2009.
image via daylife
Absolutely right! Not enough words to describe the scene…
when i was in baghdad, our base was next to an iraqi prison facility. every so often we’d play american soldiers vs iraqi correctional officers in a friendly game of soccer…the pitch was very similar to the ground in that photo. we had some pretty good times with those guys…a lot of them have great skill on the ball. they’d always comment on how fit we were though.
He took his firing hand off his weapon. I’m speechless. A SSG doing that is the downfall of the Military.