US Army Infantryman Believes SLAIN COMRADE Watched Over Him in Afghanistan!
"As I am staring out into the darkness my non-night vision eye catches some movement off to my right and I distinctly see the wispy silhouette of a person."
I received the following account:
"I was a US Army Infantryman deployed to Afghanistan in 2006-2007 along the Pakistan border. I spent the majority of my nighttime deployment sitting outside of the FOB in mounted OPs. The CO thought if we did this then the enemy wouldn't move at night, which was ridiculous because nothing happens at night over there. Seriously, they don't have street lights or electricity so unless it's a full moon you could trip into a wadi and break your neck, but anyway.
So I spend 16 months over there taking turns sitting in the turret of the truck staring out into the darkness, one eye seeing green from NODs and the other seeing nothing from the pitch black. I got very accustomed to viewing the world this way and if anything moved my eyes would pick it up instantly. Most of the time it was dogs or sheep or whatever, so no big deal.
So 8 months in I lose one of my best friends to a land mine. One of the worst days of my life. Being Infantry, we got about 2 hours back at the FOB to try to comprehend what just happened before the CO sent us back out on patrol.
So I'm sitting there in the turret staring out into the darkness as usual thinking about the things that had just gone down. So obviously my mind isn't in the best place. Regardless, as I am staring out into the darkness my non-night vision eye catches some movement off to my right and I distinctly see the wispy silhouette of a person. This person is moving around the outside of our perimeter and I was alarmed since this hasn't happened at all during my time there. So naturally I snap my head towards the movement to get a good look at this person with my night vision to attempt to figure out what kind of crazy local villager is trying to get shot. Nothing is there. Very creepy.
So I figure I'm just stressed from losing my friend and calm myself down and settle back in for the rest of guard duty. So I go back to looking straight ahead and sure enough, as soon as my eyes get back to 12 o'clock I see movement again out of my peripheral. Again, nothing is there through night vision.
So at this point, I've about had it with this crazy country and being shot at and all that stuff so I think to myself, "OK, screw it. Let's see what happens." So I turn my head back to 12 o'clock and watch out of my peripheral vision and I distinctly remember the shape of a person walking around the outside of our perimeter. I can only see this wispy figure when I'm not looking directly at it but, like I said, at this point I really don't care. So I sit and watch.
As I sit and watch I get the feeling that I know the figure who is patrolling our perimeter and I am filled with the thought that it was my buddy who we had just lost earlier that day. Creepy instantly turned to comforting and I sat and watched the movement as long as I could. I'm not a big believer in the paranormal, but I'm convinced that it was him keeping a watch on me. That's my story." T
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