Thursday, November 06, 2003

PRIME TIME

The bad guys like to strike between 6:00 and 10:00 p.m...and according to this article we are hitting back.
The other mortars landed deeper in camp.

On this night, the Army struck back. Battery fire from an M109A6 Paladin headed off into the darkness in the direction of the mortar launches. Soldiers could hear the whistle of the friendly shells as the rounds flew overhead and crashed into the darkened countryside.

A few minutes later, two Kiowa helicopters flew toward the area. A few minutes after that, two M1A1 Abrams tanks rolled past the guard post.

The mortars had set off a hornet’s nest of activity, but within minutes, the scene was calm.

Flottmeyer looked at his watch.

“Well, that’s the first hour,” he said to Larson.

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