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The divided highway, Was that "Route Irish"?When in 05?I was flying the littlebirds out of Washington LZ (US Embassy) in late 05 in Baghdad...So many times, coming off my escort, I'd pick up cover over some Big Armee convoy just to make sure they got to where they were going.From what I remember the enemy seldom if ever engaged any convoy we covered...They knew what would happen to them when we came back...
Quote from: cj7ox on January 30, 2019, 02:53:38 AMTimeframe was late January/early February 05. It's a small Army (especially nowadays!).
Timeframe was late January/early February 05.
It's a small Army (especially nowadays!).
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are. Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!
Quote from: cj7ox on January 30, 2019, 05:51:29 AMIt's a small Army (especially nowadays!).Well even worse is I typed the wrong info in. Ugh coffee is needed bad. So I removed the erroneous info. Early part of 05 I was actually back at Bragg, getting ready for deployment, that we were stood down for "because we didn't need another infantry bn in the area" so to make up for it they sent us to be instructors at West Point for the summer, only to find out that we were in fact needed. So then they sent us to Iraq instead of Afg.
Quote from: Flyin6 on January 29, 2019, 02:14:06 PMThe divided highway, Was that "Route Irish"?When in 05?I was flying the littlebirds out of Washington LZ (US Embassy) in late 05 in Baghdad...So many times, coming off my escort, I'd pick up cover over some Big Armee convoy just to make sure they got to where they were going.From what I remember the enemy seldom if ever engaged any convoy we covered...They knew what would happen to them when we came back...Timeframe was late January/early February 05. I believe it was Irish. It's been a minute, LOL! We never had any littlebirds form up on us, but several times we had Kiowa Warriors give us escort. Nothing like seeing a 58 flying alongside you, 10 feet off the deck!
Was a water bottle an approved signaling device?
Many times the Iraqis in Baghdad just didn't get the whole "Yield" to the military thing, so we had to ram tham and shove them off of the road. It was funny to watch from overhead, although in the end I never liked being a part of damaging stuff that normal people owned. That was a different time, and getting stuck in traffic could turn deadly. Almost always, hajii would figure out a gringo was stuck and go get an RPG or his buddies and fire you up. That's why we used the Helos. Hajii knew if he shot, we would shoot him, so they learned manners. That did not work for the hardened killers though. They were out to get our guys no matter what. Only thing that cured them was a bullet. Same holds true today, I would suspect.
OH this could become dangerous thread!