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...taken to Nasiriyah, where he and a ragtag group of some 40 civilians were handed old Kalashnikovs without ammunition and pushed in front of Iraqi soldiers as they faced down an advancing U.S. armored division. "If we turned back to run away from the Americans, Saddam's men would shoot us," he says. "We had no choice...
...thousands of years ago when Jesus was walking the earth still," says Corporal Omar Monge, 20, driver for the battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Bryan P. McCoy. A village elder approaches the battalion translator. Tell everyone not to be scared, he is told. But tell them if they shoot one bullet they will be very scared. We will shoot 2,000 bullets back...
...chaos of the battlefield, the old rules of engagement have already been tossed out. Lieut. Colonel Wes Gillman, commander of Task Force 130 of the 3rd Infantry Division, told his men, "If you see an Iraqi in civilian clothes coming toward you--even with a stick--shoot...
...identify the vehicle's type, check if it has a special panel that appears as a cold spot through a thermal sight, add it all together and decide whether the image on the screen is friend or foe. If it's the latter, the crew, under pressure to shoot before being shot at, is likely to pull the trigger--then hope like hell it has not accidentally blasted a group of comrades...
...make at home--jerk chicken and curry rice, specialties that reflect the family's West Indian heritage. Sometimes these days, however, he forgets to eat. He wonders what his daughter was doing in the line of fire. The 507th wasn't trained for battle, though Shana knew how to shoot an M-16 rifle in defense. Unlike pilots and special-ops teams, who are at higher risk for capture, maintenance outfits usually don't receive specialized training in evasion and escape techniques, much less how to handle interrogations--or worse--during captivity...