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...What the hell was that?" shouted Jones. Mitchell called company commander Captain Jorge Melendez one kilometer away by the bridge on the radio. "Rock Six, this is Rock Seven. We got a round fired. It came out of town and detonated...
...Melendez came back: "Okay, so now we know the enemy is in the town. I assume they do not have anything to hit us at this range?" Then came a single heavy caliber shot that cracked over Mitchell's track, followed by another, then a burst. "That's close," said Mitchell. "Somebody's moving up on our right just over the berm." A second round burst in the air, perhaps 50 meters closer. "Mortar rounds, that's what it is," said Mitchell, upright again in his hatch. "They're coming from inside the town." The squad backed up about...
...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...
...Melendez gave the tanks permission to fire. The lead tank, "Barbarian 2," acknowledged - that 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...
...Back at the blocking position Mitchell estimated at least 20 or 30 Iraqi dead, in the bungalow and the ditches around. Not a single round, not even a piece of shrapnel, has hit the Americans. "Good stuff, good stuff," said Capt. Melendez. "Now I have an idea of the capability and how they're deploying it. And I got the result I was looking for-it ain't much...