Word: armorer
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...Iraqi irregulars swarmed around the U.S. forces. The Americans were ordered to stay put and shoot at anything that moved. By midnight it was over. Two U.S. tanks were lost, blasted from behind--their most vulnerable spot--by antiaircraft guns mounted on pickups. Because of the M1's unique armor, no one on either tank was injured. And one of the tanks is recoverable...
...next rush-hour attack came right after dark the next day, but by this time the 2nd Brigade had set up "toll-booths"--heavy armor--on the roads leading from Najaf. "They attacked like morons," says Perkins. "But they kept coming." In one area guarded by two Bradleys, several hundred Iraqis were killed, according to the local battalion headquarters...
...history were written now, it would record that despite enemy resistance and crippling weather, the Army's 3rd Infantry Division's push into Iraq in just a week is an advance of men and armor unmatched in speed in the annals of warfare. In addition, more than 7,000 smart bombs and missiles battered the Iraqi leadership's command and control outposts and pounded the tanks and artillery of Saddam's Republican Guard. After prolonged delay, 1,000 members of the U.S.'s 173rd Airborne Brigade parachuted into northern Iraq to open a second front. A senior U.S. official told...
...believe that once U.S. forces crush the Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard forces protecting the city, Saddam's hold on power will crumble. But the decision to leave the southern cities unsecured has proved costly, as Fedayeen and Republican Guard troops dispatched to the south waited for U.S. armor to roll by before ambushing lightly armed supply teams in the rear. The battles have left the 50,000 troops at the coalition's spearhead--members of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force--anxious, exhausted and short on water, food and fuel...
...divisions arrayed south of Baghdad as U.S. and Kurdish forces pouring in from northern Iraq attack Iraqi troops on the northern edge of the city. As ground forces moved closer to Baghdad, the Army's AH64 and Marine AH-1 helicopter gunships that accompanied them north began pulverizing Iraqi armor and the troops around them...