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To: Future Snake Eater

I think you are describing another action. As I remember reading. A sarg advanced quickly down the alley way and “shot” the haji through the partly open door who was pumping bullets into the good colonel. The PFC had frozen in the alley way, and Yon saw what was happening and saw the colonel go down.


110 posted on 05/26/2010 7:57:34 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....)
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To: Marine_Uncle

Actually, Moose4 in post #90 gave me the link to Yon’s story about this incident. The legend around my BDE is that CSM Prosser ran past a frozen lieutenant and young Soldier after his weapon malfunctioned, so he dropped it, charged the haji, and beat him to death with his MICH. Apparently that is NOT what happened. CSM Prosser did run in after a haji while a frozen 2LT and young enlisted Soldier stood by without acting, fired his weapon until his magazine was empty, and charged the haji, tackling him, and finally subduing him by smashing his face into the concrete floor (this is after shooting the haji four times, one of those shots to his nuts). The haji survived after receiving medical care at our Combat Surgical Hospital at FOB Diamondback (I was in Mosul myself for about four months with 3rd Stryker BDE).

Anyway great story, and I’d heard it (incorrectly) a few times, but I never knew that the reporter in question was actually Michael Yon.


111 posted on 05/26/2010 8:22:45 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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