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Show DU TIN EXTON PT MB R 12 2 09 why we started pulling back because during the middle of that firefight this h lie pt r had come flying through and was providing suppressive fire with us. He was flying basically as low as he could right above us and just dumping shells on a couple of different guys and they were just firing right alongside or above us. And then the wind started kicking up. The storm was just rolling in quick and by the time we started pulling back to our trucks, you couldn't see fifty feet. You're pulling down your goggles, trying to keep the sand out of your eyes. It just came out of nowhere and I don't think that helicopter got back. I think he had to land on the road or something like that because we pulled back and set up in a defense right there. I mean, shit, I don't think we pulled back fifty years, a hundred yards, maybe and set up in a defense and it got darker than dark in a heartbeat. I was in the middle of changing my sock, trying to get that sewage out of boots. I was changing a sock and it got so dark I couldn't see. And it got cold. Then it was cold and my foot was freezing and I remember my foot was freezing and the next thing you know I passed out; I was asleep. I was changing my sock and I was passed out asleep. We had, I don't know, I hadn't slept in two or three days. So I woke up about ten minutes later, because my foot was freezing, put my sock back on, put a new sock on, put my boot back on, made sure my squad was squared away where I'd left them. Then in the middle of the night, shit, I don't know who, I think it was .. .I was awake and I was the only one on guard, I mean, not on guard. We had guys that were awake, but you couldn't see them. So you didn't want to move very far. The platoon commander and Staff Sergeant Collie and the other two squad leaders, we were taking turns of who was kind of watching the platoon. I know we put everybody at about 51 |
