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Tuesday, 27 March 2007

March 27, 2003 
"Critter" Crittenden

On the morning of the 27th, it was clear, and after three days of dust and more than a week on the road, it was cleaning day.  They hauled up a 500-gallon water buffalo full of rotten-smelling treated water … all the water anyone wanted. ...

We had been the most-forward placed conventional unit in Iraq for most of the past week.  Beyond our line of tanks was the open desert, and beyond that, Karbala, the Republican Guard and the approaches to Baghdad.

Iraqi raiders had hit units on our flanks and to our rear, invariably with disastrous results for the Iraqis – 40 dead one day, 150 dead another day – but our company had yet to see direct action. We were now poised to fight through the so-called Karbala Gap for a strike on the Republican Guard south Baghdad, but we were being held back awaiting “situational development.’’ The terms of that were not defined for us. We are all tired of waiting.  Capt. Wolford said we should be careful what we wished for. ...

Make an old dog feel appreciated?

Posted by Bill Faith on March 27, 2007 at 01:48 AM in Critter, Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

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