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Show DU TIN EXTON P MB R 12 2009 were going to secure Figar road. So we got pushed into the lead. We pu h d t th c rn r, the Figar corner, the crossroads. My vehicle, I want to say we were second I think, at that point. And we made the turn and immediately as soon as we made the turn we saw movement up on the buildings to our left and right and nobody had been that way before so we kind of stopped, the whole convoy stopped and we deployed out. We got pushed out into the bush, which really wasn't any bush; it was a field of dirt. And Richards kept yelling, "There's an Iraqi right here. There's an Iraqi right here." Yada yada. So I'm trying to get this relayed over the radio and jump out of the truck at the same time and there was an Iraqi hiding in the bushes right there. I don't remember how we captured him up, but we got him down on the ground, basically, and somebody sat on him and tied him up and secured him and we pushed him back to one of the other platoons. That was the last we saw of him, so I don't really know what happened to that guy. We kept pushing out into the field and we cleared out into the field, had a couple of tanks come up on one side and help us secure and we pushed out and made basically a company wide sweep to these two houses. Went into these two houses. My squad ... there was a big river in front of the one house and you had to get across it in order to get into the compound. My squad got there first and we put security on the building, the compound, got up on a high ground and were able to provide security for one of the other squads to sweep into the compound-I think it was Spencer's squad. They swept in and cleared that building. Third Platoon cleared the building on the other side of the street. We communicated with the, I ended up inside, somehow, I don't remember how, whether we ended up helping clear or whatever, but we started communicating with the man in there and turned out he was a teacher from Baghdad. Had come down not prior to, 55 |
