Sunday, September 09, 2007

Dude!

I just found out about this blog from an LA Times article, but it's a must read:

Army of Dude


Apart from the name (you can call him Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing), the guy writes great, straight-from-the-heart posts about military life in Iraq.

Finally, one of the lowest, saddest points of the deployment came in May. One night, a helicopter spotted several men gathered in the road with a large object. Permission was asked to fire a Hellfire missile at them, as they were obvious IED emplacers. Permission was emphatically denied, but someone decided that a Stryker platoon should head out there anyway to check it out. In tow was a Russian reporter. On a road called Trash Alley, they hit a massive deep buried IED. Everyone in the truck except the driver, six Americans and one Russian, dead. And they didn’t need to be there at all. A helicopter could have killed the insurgents with breathtaking ease. Instead, those guys and the one with the detonator got away in the night. Justice was never done.

3 comments:

Mad Man Mikey said...

Will be going ot the march in DC this saturday to take pictures for my paper. If anything interesting is captured do you want a picture?

The Kenosha Kid said...

Sounds good!

Mad Man Mikey said...

I left you the link to my pics on your "Yesterday's news today" post. I only posted 35 pictures, but have another 75 or so that people might want to see.