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...Moments later though, the lead company came under heavy mortar, automatic rifle and RPG fire that made further movement impossible. Using all the weapons his battalion could bring to bear brought a quick end to enemy fire. Iraqi attempts to send more troops to the area by pick-up truck ran into the 120mm main guns of tanks sent to reinforce the 2nd Battalion. They fared no better then their compatriots who were killed by the 3rd ID days earlier...
...enemy would not get the jump on Charlie Rock. A civilian pick-up had been spotted five hundred meters out on their right flank, another one crammed with people vanished behind a sand bungalow 1,200 meters away at their two o'clock. Here on the outskirts of Ash Shinariya, a small town on the Euphrates 200 kilometers south of Baghdad, crews spent their night watching thermal imaging detectors in Bradley fighting vehicles. They'd been picking up enemy scouts probing their sandbagged positions blocking a bridge over the Euphrates, five kilometers south west of town...
While the “couple” tried clumsily to interact at the bar, the actors asked the audience for help making decisions about what pick-up lines to use with each other or whether to “come on strong...
...funny because I would walk in and all the guys would be like, ‘You’re not for real, wanting to play in our pick-up game,’” Moore said. “It was kind of fun to get out there and be able to prove myself and walk in and be like, ‘Yes, I am playing...
...When someone wins a race after you’ve been down, it’s the best pick-up you have,” Casey said...