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Show Brent Huff 0 t b r 2009 JCW: Did you see any [unclear] while you were there? BH: Oh, yeah. In this building, the ministry, it was like these eight-story building . There's something that sticks out in my mind, though, because that night while we were staying on top of the building-so this is a few hours at least after basically the end of the firefight. I think our call for fire finally came in. It was like a Tomahawk missile that just, it was actually one of these eight-story buildings which wasn't where the enemy was that we'd been fighting earlier, but it was huge. We saw it on the horizon, felt the vibration. JCW: Did you actually see an impact? BH: No, well, just like orange, you know what I mean, on the horizon behind the building. You could feel it for sure. I've got a picture of it, too, because then when we occupied those buildings, I took a picture of the building and the whole front of this building was this big, black kind of carcass of a building. That was kind of cool, probably unnecessary (laughs). We hung out there on top of this building. We did see a fair amount. I remember looking at some of the houses that were down, just kind of across the street, on the more wealthy side, because this is a few hundred yards from the road. On the one side of the road was Sadr City, where we'd patrolled out of and gotten into a firefight, which was just absolute ghetto. But on the other side of this freeway, some of these houses were pretty sweet. They were big and stone and most of them have that flat roof that came out and made a huge balcony in front of the house. We blew one of those up, too, actually. We went out with EOD, me and Donally; we did security for the explosive ordnance disposal guys. So we basically walked across the street from this ministry building and they found some rockets just laying on the ground, some ammunition, and I think it's a 38 |
