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Posted on 11/09/2003 1:26:44 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
TIKRIT, Iraq
– The 4th Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse launched “Operation Ivy Cyclone.” The operation is ongoing, focusing on aggressive offensive operations including patrols, ambushes, cordon and searches and raids. This operation is a concentrated, uncompromising effort to locate and detain or eliminate any person and/or undertaking that seeks to harm coalition forces or innocent Iraqis as they work together to bring stability and security to a free Iraq.
Over the past 24 hours with the start of “Operation Ivy Cyclone,” Task Force Ironhorse conducted 228 patrols, four raids and detained 16 individuals. Nineteen of the patrols were joint operations conducted with the Iraqi police, the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and the Border Guard in order to continually improve the safety and standard of living for the Iraqi people.
In one of many actions related to “Operation Ivy Cyclone,” Task Force Ironhorse soldiers observed an attacker stringing monofilament wire across a road in an area near Tikrit. The individual was placing the wire at a height meant to mortally wound a coalition soldier, riding as the gunner in a HMMWV.
The soldiers in an observation position gave the aggressor verbal warnings to stop. The aggressor fired on the position and soldiers responded by firing back. The aggressor was killed as a result of the altercation.
An indication that enemy forces are taking desperate measures to avoid detection was demonstrated when Task Force Ironhorse soldiers discovered a weapons cache in a cemetery near Samarra just after 7:00 a.m. on Nov. 6. Hidden in a crypt, soldier located and confiscated a weapons cache consisting of three rocket propelled grenade launchers, one 82mm mortar tube, one 60mm mortar tube, four rounds of 82mm mortar shells, one 60mm mortar round, one 107mm rocket, two rocket propelled grenades and eight hand grenades.
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That has been a concern for a while, but nobody has seemed to care. 3 or 4 months ago, we were requesting to have metal bars welded onto the turrets of our Bradleys, because, as we saw it, the enemy would be wise to string up fishing wire at the height of a Bradley Commander's neck. That concern was ignored and 2 weeks later a platoon leader nearly got his head taken off by copper wire strung up across the road. Fortunately copper wire shows up better than fishing line. He saw it at the last second, ducked, and only got a nasty scrape mark on his cheek.
As for a gunner in a HMWWV, I don't see how he would be mortally wounded, since the weapon would get caught on the fishing line and the line would probably snap almost immediately.
At any rate, good job shooting the bad guys.
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