Word: solloway
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...supposed to be a day off for the 1st Platoon. Some of the 300 men at Shkin are watching TV in the fort mess hall, chowing down on grits and eggs. A few are lifting weights. Specialist Richard Solloway is grumbling to anyone who will listen that Hugh Hefner turned down Solloway's request for the platoon to tour the Playboy Mansion on the next home leave...
...Solloway's daydreams about Playboy bunnies are shattered when a humvee roars up to the firebase, and Gilstrap is pulled out. "I wanted to get those sons of bitches," says Solloway. His chance would come. The enemy usually retreats after firing off a few rounds. But this time the barrage holds steady, coming from several directions. That morning, radio surveillance picked up voices in Arabic--a sign that al-Qaeda was taking charge of the assault, according to Major Wille...
...reinforcements scramble into place. Solloway and other 1st Platoon men toss on their combat gear and are quickly bucking along the Chevy track in their humvees. The platoon heads to a hilltop overlooking the ridges that's wide enough for the humvees and, if needed, for a medevac helicopter to land. The hilltop also has a clean firing line. The vehicles pull up, and company commander Captain Ryan Worthan fans his men out into the scrub pines and along the wadis, to stalk the enemy. In one wadi, Sergeant Christopher McGurk sees footprints and the remains of a fire...