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Show DU TI E TO p B R 12 2 9 could get turned around for some reason· we never did figur that out. But 5th Marin came up behind us, punched through our lines went across the river, all und r fir and then got a secured position on the other side of the river and this was like, must have b en April i\ I think. We spent that night right there on the Diyala River and then we crossed the next morning. We came up to this big, we didn't get any word at all, we just got word: we're going across the river. Roger that. We thought, okay, well, we just had a big huge firefight right here across the river last night, so let's gear up. We came up with a company internal plan and discussed how we were going to cross the river, we said, "Hey, this is how we're going to cross the river so we can be secure." Then we moved across the river and headed south. Everybody else had headed north, so now we're like, okay, we're in the lead again because nobody else is down here. Awesome. And I think it was, again, battalion conflicting orders because they didn't know what the fuck they were doing. So we moved across the river and moved south and then we turned right where the other bridge was at that had been blown up and you could see it was all destroyed and blown up. They had a big section taken out. So we moved into Baghdad, from the east of Baghdad, and we stopped just outside of the city. There was a big, huge scud missile, or a big missile, I assumed it was a scud, off to the side, sitting there on the road, on the main highway that we were coming into town on. The Tigress was on our left, or the Euphrates-I think it was the Tigress, whichever one's on the north, I can't rememberbut it was on our left and that's a pretty wide river, so nobody was coming across that without us knowing about it. We moved forward, we moved past that scud and we 76 |
