Santa? Vampire 06 requesting supply drop, over

Vampire 06 is the nomme de guerre of an American soldier in Afghanistan. His job is to train Afghan National Army troops, kill the bad guys - and survive the total insanity that is the US military.

He writes a blog called Afghanistan Shrugged. In his Dec. 3 post, he's fed up with the mail not getting to his base (a Forward Operating Base, i.e. a place that gets shot at on a regular basis).

Fearing that the current mail situation will impact his troop's Christmas - he appeals directly to the man in the red suit:

I think I have a better chance of Santa actually dropping into the FOB with his reindeer and delivering the mail than my team getting it through the system.

Santa, if you're reading this: LZ is marked VS-17 ORANGE.  We'll pop smoke when we here the jingle bells, you ID and we'll start supressing known rocket sites.  Tell Rudolph it's a blackout FOB but redlights are cool.  Watch the eastern ridgeline we take fire from there a lot.

(H/t to Danger Room. They posted a link to Vampire 06 talking about always drinking the Chai. Read that and just kept going.)

Vampire's no Hemmingway, but give the guy a break - people are shooting at him, his REMFs are giving him stupid orders and pretty much everyone back here has stopped noticing that there's a war on.