Back in Iraq, GIs find peace in former war zone

[unhappycamper]

In this Feb. 19, 2007 photo, Joint Security Station Tarmiyah is seen after a suicide car bomb attack north of Baghdad.


Back in Iraq, GIs find peace in former war zone
By Chelsea J. Carter - The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Jan 10, 2010 16:34:52 EST

TARMIYAH, Iraq — Popcorn popping, thought Army Staff Sgt. Jason Fisher. That’s the sound the bullets made as they hit the wall of the American outpost.

It was early morning and Fisher’s comrades were still asleep. But he had stayed up overnight, processing suspects wanted in the killing of an American soldier two days earlier.

His outpost often took gunfire, usually sporadic, but this time it didn’t let up. Then he looked out the window and saw it: a white truck barreling toward the converted police station.

Fisher turned to run. Suddenly, he was flying through the air.

The blast sheered off the front of the building, burying some of the soldiers. Others rushed to dig them out and find their weapons and flak vests in the rubble.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/01/ap_soldiers_back_in_iraq_011010/



unhappycamper comment: See that gun on the right? I used to carry an under (M-40) attachment on my M-16A2 when I was in Cambodia. Hoo-ah.