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Sunday, December 12, 2004

Let's take a tour of your new home, don't trip over that 50 cal.

On the second day we got up about 11:30/12:00 and they showed me around the camp a bit. We then went back to the command center to fix a problem and there I saw some operations where they were fighting some insurgents. A squad was taking heavy fire from a building and they called in some support. There was a UAV that spotted where the fire was coming from and then they moved a tank about 150 meters from the front of the house then BAM! They let loose a shell that demolished the front half of the house. There were all sorts of things going on in there. One thing I heard was a guy saying "permission to counter fire?" He gave some coordinates and then you heard in the background some shells launching. Well the Marines have a series of sensors that all planted all over the place and they can pinpoint where something has been launched from in like 5 seconds. If it is a designated kill zone they can fire at will. If not, then they have to get clearance to fire. So that was my second day (I think).

1 Comments:

Blogger AnthonyRC ,when attempting to communicate with greatness, said...

Ok, this part was not exciting at all! How wild to go from the thrill of the trip to the fear and realization that there is death going on so nearby...

Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:11:00 PM

 

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