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...three tanks in Micthell's track made a sharp reverse. "Let's show 'em what real mortar fire is all about." Mitchell made the radio call and seconds later the ground around the bungalow erupted in dust, like it had been flattened by a giant fly swapper. "Thunder Base, Rock 7," said Mitchell. "I want you to go right a hundred, ahead a hundred, and then converge all weapons." Then leaning over to Rather, now along side in Barbarian 4: "Watch this Barbarian 4." At 10:43 am, all nine 120 mm mortar rounds fell flat on the bungalow. "YeeOww...
...Devil Docs had already moved forward with the first advance, so to catch up with them we rode in the bed of an open 7-ton truck-lined with sandbags in case we hit a mine-for 17 hours. Their base, Camp Viper, in south-central Iraq, had a team of 44 medical personnel, including doctors, nurses, medics and corpsmen. I toured the two 40-ft. by 40-ft. operating tents, each reinforced with two layers of tent canvas and a solid floor. They were clean and sanitary, as any operating room should...
...There" is a newly captured air base in southern Iraq the coalition is rebuilding to relieve pressure on the 200-mile supply line into Iraq from Kuwait that has been subject to constant Iraqi harassment. And getting "there" in the lumbering HC-130, a big, slow target for surface-to-air missiles (SAMS), means flying about 300 feet above the desert and passing through a gauntlet of Iraqi radar systems. Because of all the surface-to-air- missile beacons in the area, alarms go off in the cabin. And one pesky mobile SAM battery has been roaming around and targeting...
...Besides serving as a supply depot staging area, chemical- and biological-weapons detection lab, and a medevac point, the liberated air base now has a hospital. Behind the newly erected surgical unit, hospital chief Colonel Harry Warren shows me three large crates full of Iraqi gas masks found on the base; stamped inside the unused masks are the words made in Germany...
...started speeding away. They were immediately shot up. It could have been the U.S. helicopter says Abbas, who has a white bandage wrapped around his head. "But I know the Americans saved my life." Abbas was picked up by a Marine CH-46 helicopter and flown to the base. His wife is in the hospital with him. His brother was evacuated to the Comfort. The five kids in the car all were killed...