300 Iraqi Mortars At Once: EOD At Work In Mosul

StrategyPage.com ^ | 16 Apr 03 | USAF SSG Jerry Morrison

[11B3]

300 Iraqi Mortar Rounds Go Boom Over 300 Iraqi mortar rounds of Jordanian origin are disposed of in a large explosion by U.S. Army Special Forces and 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit personnel on the hillsides near Mosul, Iraq April 16, 2003. Coalition forces are discovering and disposing of large weapons caches throughout Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom(OIF). OIF is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jerry Morrison)

[11B3]

No sound quite so sweet as that chest-thumping crump of military explosives. (Especially when it's not coming at you.) I'll bet the secondaries went on for some time.

[dts32041]

I feel tag line change coming on

[SwinneySwitch]

KABOOM!!!

[smith288]

I love the smell of confiscated ordinance in the morning.

[trebb]

Oh BABY - the Earth moved!!! Was it good for you too???

[Mr. Jeeves]

Over 300 Iraqi mortar rounds of Jordanian origin...

Hmmmm. Were these rounds illegally obtained or is Abdullah playing both sides against the middle?

[gunnrmike]

EOD Motto "Initial Success or Total Failure"

[flying Elvis]

Question: How effective is this at destroying all of the rounds marked for destruction? It seems like the explosion would send some unexploded rounds flying?

[kaboom]

KABOOM!!!

Couldn't have said it better myself ;-)

[CholeraJoe]

*ping

[L,TOWM]

>>>>>>>We only screw up once<<<<<<<<

Now THAT'S funny...

[pa_dweller]

It would've been more impressive if this stuff had been carted over to within a mile or so of the Jordanian border and set off there. It might have more of an impact, if you know what I mean.

[razorback-bert]

boom ping

[RightWingConspirator]

In my 21 years of military service I found that EOD people are a little strange. Iraq today must be heaven for these guys--they have to be getting their jollies off doing this.

[AzSteven]

I saw some of the Jordanian ammo boxes on Fox a few weeks back - they had lot dates from the late 1980s.

Not that I would be surprised if there were some 2001 dates in there too, but the stuff the TV guys showed was pre-Gulf War.

[11B3]

Glad to see someone knows a grunt's handle, not to mention the EOD's motto! That was one job I was always fascinatd with (and enjoyed being attached to for impact area sweeps).

Please enlighten me to the meaning of your handle.

[EODGUY]

There is only one feeling I can compare to a detonation like that, but this is a co-ed thread CJ......let me just say it's breathtaking!