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Michael Totten: Baghdad patrol night
We want to use you as bait, Sergeant Eduardo Ojeda from Los Angeles, California, told me before I embedded with his unit on what was shaping up to be a night raid.Excellent, I said. Thats why Im here. This is what passes for black Army humor in Baghdad. Our TST [time-sensitive target] blew up a vehicle and killed four soldiers and an interpreter in the next AO [area of operations], he said. Hes somewhere in our AO now. He could tell by the frozen and dubious look on my face that I wasnt sure I wanted to go on the mission. Dont worry, he said. These guys hardly ever fight back when we nail them. And they always lose when they do. Come on. Lets go f*ck em up. I donned my body armor and helmet, strapped my Nikon around my neck, and jumped in the back of one of the Humvees. . . . Posted by: Mike 2007-07-30 |
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