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1 posted on 11/09/2003 1:26:45 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
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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.

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2 posted on 11/09/2003 1:30:11 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl ("Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong" ~RReagan)
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Thanks Cowgirl. Are you pulling these Centcom reports off a DoD website?
3 posted on 11/09/2003 1:32:12 PM PST by GreyFriar
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They missed a good opportunity there. Should have booby trapped the crypt with a couple hundred pounds of C4 set to explode when someone entered to retrieve the weapons.
5 posted on 11/09/2003 1:34:30 PM PST by Hugin
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"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."

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.

8 posted on 11/09/2003 1:46:11 PM PST by Voice in your head ("The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." - Thucydides)
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