Word: dust
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...Melendez shouted back: "Sounds like they're trying to flank you guys." Unbeknownst to the enemy, U.S. scouts were now working feverishly to come up with "grid references"- coordinates for Mitchell's squad to start firing at. Two more mortar rounds landed in a cloud of dust about 30 meters out to the right. Over the rattle of Iraqi machine gun fire, the scouts announced they had a grid: "six dash four dash dash two dash six dash seven, niner dash two dash three dash three dash five...
...tank is headed by Sergeant Al Wallace, 28, who back in Kuwait decorated his 120 mm barrel with the moniker "Baghdad beware". At 10:29 am just as a figure appeared on the roof of the distant bungalow, Barbarian 2's barrel exploded like a bomb. A cloud of dust enveloped the tank as 60 tons of Abrams recoiled across the road. A second passed then the impact. The bungalow disappeared in dust. "Rock Six, we no longer have a sniper problem," said Mitchell. He would later recount how the round hit two feet under the figure on the roof...
...Barbarian 2. "The Iraqi's have zeroed their distance," said Mitchell, as all three tanks in Micthell's track made a sharp reverse. "Let's show 'em what real mortar fire is all about." Mitchell made the radio call and seconds later the ground around the bungalow erupted in dust, like it had been flattened by a giant fly swapper. "Thunder Base, Rock 7," said Mitchell. "I want you to go right a hundred, ahead a hundred, and then converge all weapons." Then leaning over to Rather, now along side in Barbarian 4: "Watch this Barbarian...
...heavy SAWs (squad automatic weapons) and 240-Bravo machine guns. Flanking them are three Bradley fighting vehicles. Mitchell, 34, briefs his men that a passing farmer has told a sentry about 10 men sweeping around for an ambush. On his command, the Americans run north through the choking red dust and throw themselves on the ground against a nearby railway track. "Jesus, we can't see s___!" says Carnahan. The squads hold their positions as the Bradleys scan the area with thermal imagers...
Just outside An Najaf, a city of over a half million people, the 101st Airborne temporarily occupied an old school. Its walls were cracking, it was covered in dust, and by all appearances it had not been occupied for years. In any city or town in America the building would have been condemned and cordoned off as a hazard. It was not until troops entered the building and noticed 2003 calendars hanging on the walls that anyone realized the building was still...