Bill Ardolino On A Nighttime Raid In Fallujah Contributed by Bill Faith
Bill Ardolino
It was after midnight when our convoy of Jundi (Iraqi Army soldiers) and trailing Marine advisors rolled out into Fallujah's neighborhoods, their darkened Humvees barreling down pitch black streets and muddy back alleys. Additional marines from Charlie Company added a security element along with several Abrams tanks, ghostly juggernauts which would periodically materialize out of the darkness, their poised turrets and night optics scanning jumbled city streets.
The mission was a "cordon and knock:" Iraqi Army, the Iraqi Police Special Missions Group and U.S. Marines were to raid residences and snatch up and question suspected insurgents in the middle of the night. ...
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Contributed by Bill Faith on February 5, 2007 at 11:47 AM in , , |