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One of my soldiers, Ambushed in Iraq
idsman75
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If I don't make sense, you'll have to forgive me. I just got back from a PT session with one of my recruits a few hours ago and am busily washing, starching and pressing uniforms.
Well, I just got done with an internet chat session with the brother of one of my recruits. This recruit of mine is from January of last year. He is the gunner on an Armored Crewmember team (M1A1 Abrams). Apparently his crew was driving their tank down "Ambush Alley". He was scanning the terrain with binoculars and his head was sticking out of the tank. He spotted enemy troops armed with rifles and an RPG aimed right at him. He ducked his head in the tank just in time but felt like he was going to be sucked out due to the change in air pressure. Nobody was hurt...except for the bad guys. Some 7.62 rounds left them decimated except for one poor fellow who died rather slowly after he was captured.
I'm going to buy this man a beer when he comes home!
Here's a picture after he made it to his final destination in Baghdad or Tikrit (can't remember which one he was going to):
Well, I just got done with an internet chat session with the brother of one of my recruits. This recruit of mine is from January of last year. He is the gunner on an Armored Crewmember team (M1A1 Abrams). Apparently his crew was driving their tank down "Ambush Alley". He was scanning the terrain with binoculars and his head was sticking out of the tank. He spotted enemy troops armed with rifles and an RPG aimed right at him. He ducked his head in the tank just in time but felt like he was going to be sucked out due to the change in air pressure. Nobody was hurt...except for the bad guys. Some 7.62 rounds left them decimated except for one poor fellow who died rather slowly after he was captured.
I'm going to buy this man a beer when he comes home!
Here's a picture after he made it to his final destination in Baghdad or Tikrit (can't remember which one he was going to):
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"They and all who are participating in Operation Enduring Freedom are heroes. They put their lives on the line on behalf of freedom and on behalf of America, and they do it each and every day. I'm so very proud of them and their comrades in arms." -General Richard B. Myers
In Memory of all fallen Night Stalkers who entered into Eternal Glory
MAJ Curtis D. Feistner
CPT Bartt D. Owens
CW2 Jody L. Egnor
SSG James P. Dorrity
SSG Kerry W. Frith
SSG Bruce A. Rushforth, Jr.
SGT Jeremy D. Foshee
SGT Thomas F. Allison
SGT Philip J. Svitak
CW3 Mark O'Steen
CW3 Thomas Gibbons
SSG Daniel Kisling
SGT Gregory Frampton
NSDQ!
"Nobody dislikes war more than warriors, but we value the causes of peace so highly that we will not duck a war in an effort to get a lasting peace." -General Daniel "Chappie" James
NSDQ!
"Nobody dislikes war more than warriors, but we value the causes of peace so highly that we will not duck a war in an effort to get a lasting peace." -General Daniel "Chappie" James
When were you in the 160th?
I had friends there, and one who is on the memorial wall at Campbell.
Trinity +++
"Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it."(Proverbs 22:6)
I am still serving proudly as a NIGHT STALKER. Who is your friend? If it is sensitive, please email me.
NSDQ!
"Nobody dislikes war more than warriors, but we value the causes of peace so highly that we will not duck a war in an effort to get a lasting peace." -General Daniel "Chappie" James
IDSMAN, where do we send the new underwear?[:D][:D]
Politicians are like diapers, every so often you need to change them, for obvious reasons.