Iraqi people are Longhorn fans!

I have to share this story with you guys because you will absolutely love it. So this morning, my guys and I are out on patrol. More of winning hearts and minds patrol , than combat patrol because that is what this war has pretty much turned into. As we are walking through a small farming village handing out candy to the kids and talking with the adults.

This little girl comes up to me holding up the ever famous Hook 'Em sign. Now in my previous two tours to Iraq I had taught this to many other kids and it has caught on pretty big here with troops teaching it all over the country, some of them of course think it means "rock on", but there are plenty of Longhorn fans in the military to teach Hook 'Em.  They also know the shocker sign and all cuss words as well.

Anyways, when this little girl comes up to me, I throw the Hook 'Em back at her, but as I do it I yell, "Hook 'Em." She looks at me weird and starts yelling out "Hook 'Em" and running around throwing up the Hook 'Em sign with it for everyone to see and hear.

Of course one of my buddies in my fireteam is a Oklahoma native and of course he is a Sooners fan. He has been very smart the last couple of weeks and completely kept his mouth shut. But I guess he can no longer hold it because he walks up to me and asks me, "what are you teaching these kids?"

He then calls the little girl over and does the ever infamous inverted Hook 'Em. So now she is confused and is looking at us both. She stands there for a minute not real sure what to do. Then at the top of her lungs, she sreams, "Hook 'Em" and throws that beautiful sign up in his face all of a few inches from his nose. I just start laughing and he walks away head down, with his feelings all hurt. I can truly say that the Texas Longhorns are the world's team.