ladywolf
UH-60L Jeep Chick
- Location
- Clarksville TN
heres somethin for ya to chew on (for all you prior mil. guys dont worry its unclassified, i can repeat what happened) We were going up to taji to pick up some parts, which is roughly a half hour, 40 mins north of BIAP (baghdad intl airport). we had just made the turn onto the freeway, when we found that the MP'S had found an IED. ok no biggie, we decided to sit and wait, since EOD (the bomb guys) were already on the way to blow the IED's up. Ok, EOD is there, have everything set up, 2 mins to detonation, 1 min, 30 seconds, so everyone crouched down behind our trucks. BOOM, explosion goes off, all the sudden i hear CLINK the sound of breaking glass. i was like what in the hell and peeked around the front of my humvee, and sure enough theres broken glass on the ground. HMM, this is weird. so i walk around front, and my headlight is broken out. a piece of the IED hit it. it was roughly 1.5" - 2" in long, about an inch wide, and a half inch thick. i was like OOH, if someone caught that they'd be in a bit of pain. ok everyone back in their trucks, lets get there. once we got there, we went to chow, and we couldnt even take off our body armor in the truck, so i was stuck wearing the stuff all day. what a pain in the butt. i have the piece of IED that hit my truck. will show it to everyone when i come home on leave sometime this year.