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...prefers Afghanistan to Iraq. "The Iraqis will plant explosives and run away," he says. "But the Afghans will go toe-to-toe with you." Just as Turner, 29, starts to expand on the point, a huge explosion interrupts him. One of the humvees in his 16-vehicle convoy has been hit by a roadside bomb and explodes in a flaming whoosh. Turner and his men have driven straight into a Taliban ambush...
...screeches toward the front of the convoy, and gunmen inside open fire on the U.S. soldiers. Through his night-vision goggles, Turner spots three men carrying rocket-propelled-grenade launchers racing toward the stalled convoy. Bullets are zinging in from fields. The gunners atop the humvees open up with their .50-cal. machine guns, and red tracer bullets carve across the darkness. "Call me a friggin' detective, but I'd say they knew we were coming!" yells Turner while radioing for a medevac helicopter. The five soldiers inside the flaming humvee, although burned and slashed by flying shrapnel, have survived...
...director, Simon Crane, says the front and rear cars were not armored because there was no garage in Baghdad capable of correctly armor-plating a BMW. "Hindsight can be a terrible thing," says Crane, who served as a British Army officer from 1988 to 2003. The men in the convoy applied "exactly the correct fire solutions," he says. "And when the incident was over, they dealt with their comrades and moved on." The existence of the video was kept from Ahmelman's family to spare them further distress, Crane explains. "Sometimes decisions are correct, sometimes incorrect," he says of what...
...ambush; the three men's deaths, he adds, were not the company's fault. But Mark and fellow security contractor Neroli, who have since left ERSM - Crane claims they were fired - are critical of the firm. Neroli (not her real name), a former Australian Military Police officer, says the convoy's remaining immobile and Johnson's firing into the air were fundamental errors. Mark says ERSM's use of unarmored cars was "always a concern," and that adding protection is not difficult: "You just use glue and Velcro and put plates inside...
...larger group, which also includes two more USAR teams, from Nevada and Phoenix. Many team members drop glow sticks near their cots to prevent any of the 100 or more total people-or the 30 or so trucks operated by the three teams that just arrived in a convoy on the 150-mile drive from Houston-from running each other over. "It's a little bit weird, because there's probably someone sitting in a house out there, and we're sleeping in a parking lot," says Marcus Chapman, 30, a Westerville, Ohio, firefighter, his head resting on a John...