{"id":7911,"date":"2009-02-17T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T18:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2009-03-03T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T19:02:46","slug":"18-years-ago-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7911","title":{"rendered":"18 years ago tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

COB6 wrote a few weeks ago about the friendly fire incident that we were involved in 18 years ago tonight. It was a week before the ground portion of Desert Storm and we were a lone infantry battalion facing the Iraqi Army about ten miles inside Iraq on a counter-reconnaissance mission screening for the XVIIIth Airborne Corps sweep behind us to the western desert.<\/p>\n

COB6’s platoon was on my south flank and there was a scout section and a GSR section on his south flank. That’s who was hit in this video;
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\nCOB6 was the first officer on the scene (and he went to the scene despite our idiot commander’s order for him to remain in place). COB6 and his crew rushed into the burning armored vehicles and recovered the crews trapped inside the Bradley and M113 and initiated their treatment.<\/p>\n

I mention this mostly because several of my old platoon members have suddenly burst back into my life on Facebook after all of these years and as you can imagine, it’s been the topic of conversation today. They were a damn good platoon. A scant few months after we got back to Germany, a composite squad from the platoon went to a USAEUR squad competition and came out on top and were named the best infantry squad in Europe without any help from me. I’ve always been proud of them. Of course, now they’ll all come here and beclown themselves in public.<\/p>\n

Snagged this photo from (my former gunner and therefore accustomed to me helping myself to his stuff without asking) Dassaro’s Facebook album;
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Also, 18 years ago tonight, my granddaughter was born in Panama – I didn’t find out until a few months later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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