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That’s when I tuned in to the siege of some anonymous Iraqi outpost outside an irrelevant southern city. I watched three American tanks fire their chain guns into a berm for about an hour, supposedly rooting out an Iraqi tank. But the only thing I could see on TV was flying sand. The phantom tank disposed of, American tanks eventually turned their attention and guns toward the snipers in the building...
...running through a field and a date-palm grove, north of the road. A machine gunner atop a tank starts shooting, and suddenly the air is ripped by bullets. The copters dance over the field, firing down. McCoy bounds into the palm grove, lobs a grenade over a small berm and opens fire on a group of men. When the shooting stops, Marines spread through Afak while human exploitation teams, U.S. soldiers who collect information, start interviewing locals. A group of Iraqis hanging out in front of a run-down gas station tell the Marines that all is cool...
...first the Marines thought the pair was about to surrender--until they opened fire, that is. Instantly a Marine sniper climbed to the top of our Amtrak and lined up a shot, but the two men darted behind the cover of a sandy berm. Moments later, Sergeant Major David Howell, using an Amtrak for cover, sneaked up behind the soldiers as they came out to surrender and forced them to the ground...
...Brigade of the 101st Airborne, climbed a 150-foot tower, standing on a recently abandoned electrical plant. He was going to watch the opening phases of the brigade's first offensive operations. In the morning chill, he saw the brigade's 3rd Battalion form up behind a low berm south of the An Najaf Airport. At exactly 6:30 AM the battalion, supported by five tanks, swept across the airfield in almost textbook fashion. By 9:00 AM one of the largest airports in southern Iraq was declared secure and Army engineers were already on the airfield opening...
...running through a field and a date-palm grove, north of the road. A machine gunner atop a tank starts shooting, and suddenly the air is ripped by bullets. The copters dance over the field, firing down. McCoy bounds into the palm grove, lobs a grenade over a small berm and opens fire on a group of men. When the shooting stops, Marines spread through Afak while human exploitation teams, U.S. soldiers who collect information, start interviewing locals. A group of Iraqis hanging out in front of a run-down gas station tell the Marines that all is cool...