The smell of rifle oil is a special smell a soldier knows only to well, unless he is a REMF and flying a desk as his memories of basic training and Rifle oil will have faded. When you have your rifle cleaning kit in theatre you know you can keep your personal weapon serviceable and continue to do your job of keeping yourself and your mates alive and killing the emeny. Rifle oil is comforting, a military comfort blanket.
Oh that comforting smell of rifle oil
Cold metal against skin
Strength through superior firepower
Objective is to win
Advance to contact rounds firing a wall of steel
Dead mans click its bayonnet time
Dear God this is for real
I stab at the flesh
Through fingers they grasp
Please die please die
How long can you last
Ammunition reload dive into next trench
The blood the cordite an ungodly stench
From whence came great noise
Now ears buzzing in silence
My brothers in arms
Unleashing just violence
This trench is now my home
My blood forever in soil
Clean rifle check map drink tea
Oh that comforting smell of rifle oil.
© Mack (RG)"Every day feels like the day of a funeral"
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