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Tuesday, 03 April 2007
April 3, 2003

"Critter" Crittenden remembers:

We crossed the Euphrates around noon. I was asleep in the back and missed it. Another brigade, bounding ahead of us, was responsible for all the wreckage around the bridge. I learned later my friend Sig Christenson of the San Antonio Express-News had spent the night under heavy fire there, at Objective Peach. Sig had expected to die there. ...

I’m not sure I’ve done full justice to the Abrams’ 120 mm main gun. It can knock the turret off a Soviet-made tank, turn a Japanese SUV into a flaming hulk, take down walls and empty out rooms. It does these things with uncanny precision, tracking high-speed targets and hitting them without fail.

Its sound has several distinct parts to it. There’s the massive BOOM of the propellant charge; the air-ripping noise of the round headed downrange; and finally the high-explosive impact. All compressed into one concussion-inducing noise.

Fired in anger, it felt and sounded exactly like the Angel of Death hurling down the vengeance of an angry God. Horrific and biblical in its proportions.  If you think that sounds at all melodramatic or trite, then you are not sufficiently familiar with the 120 mm main gun. ...

Posted by Bill Faith on April 3, 2007 at 12:52 AM in Critter, Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

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