Archive for September 15th, 2007

Its been a busy week.  The raids and engagements never seem to cease.  Here I thought things were supposed to slow down as your redeployment date neared!  I have come to the conclusion, though, that one of our IA commanders hunts insurgents like people in the US hunt deer.  He is notorious for the way he deals with insurgents and terrorists, and his uncanny ability to find safehouses, caches etc.  Its almost as if he knows ahead of time where to look (and he might).

We were out with him today on a “recon” for a future IA outpost.  The area is really remote and dotted with tiny little villages, and the bad guys have probably been using it to train and launch attacks from.  We were traveling down some pretty bad roads, if they were roads at all.  Most of the time, it seemed that they were just places were the wadi system broke up enough to get through.  At one point we went straight up the side of a wadi.  I mean straight up.  The humvee made the trip like a trooper though, and I am always amazed at how far the Iraqis can push Ford F350s and Chevy pickups.