Posted on 02/15/2021 4:25:57 PM PST by lowbridge
A civilian contractor was killed and a US service member was injured along with five other contractors when rocket fire landed on coalition forces near Erbil International Airport in Iraq, said Col. Wayne Marotto, the spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve.
"Initial reports that Indirect Fire landed on Coalition Forces in Erbil tonight. There was 1 civilian contractor killed, 5 civilian contractors injured and 1 US service member injured. More information to follow," Marotto wrote on Twitter.
According to initial reports, four of the five injured contractors are American citizens, a defense official told CNN.
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Is Biden hiding in his basement?
He’s playing Mario Kart with his granddaughter.
New distraction on the way...
And our response was ...... crickets .....
Did Gropin’Joe issue an apology to Iran or blame Trump yet?
Did Gropin’Joe issue an apology to Iran or blame Trump yet?
President Trump and his staff would be miles ahead of this and have already countered the attack.
Faux Biden is probably seeking to grope his next victim.
Gird your loins, Dementia Joe. They’re testing your mettle.
Let me guess. CNN. Looking to provide reason for the U.S. to go back to war in Iraq.
They’ll have to start the narrative of blaming Trump first.
Probably they saw a video they didn’t like......
I’m thinking they already know from the Biden admin of a plan to go back into Iraq.
Winner
Upon hearing incoming, rule # 1 is- hit the deck.
Sometimes it’s just fate/bad luck and time is up for some poor soul(s).
I recall a young contractor working in the laundry dept. at Al Asad Airbase, Iraq, that stepped outside the tent to have a smoke and was struck and killed by shrapnel from an exploding rocket round.
Another time a Cobra helicopter pilot in far western Iraq, (Korean Village) was in the latrine (bldg.) (CHU) (containerized-style housing unit) and a single rocket round struck the bldg. killing him.
Two KBR employees were in their tent sleeping during a rocket attack. A rocket round hit just outside the tent, sending shrapnel their way. A 5 ton air conditioning unit took some of the shrapnel, but a piece got by the unit and struck one man lying on his cot in the leg, and another man lying on his cot received a shrapnel strike under the chin lodging in his brain. Field doctors considered amputating the leg of the one man but saved it in the end, and the other poor soul tragically (permanently) wounded is spending the rest of his life in a nursing home.
Hit the deck means hit the deck. Put your face in the dirt and get as flat as humanly possible. Lots of stories about people running to the bunker getting smoked on the way, instead of hitting the deck immediately where they are at when the incoming round is on top of them.
RIP.
Our response should be to get out of there now.
We lost some people in Al Asad Airbase when a mortar round bounce off a Jersey barrier into the bunker. Everybody reacted correctly in the response to the attack, just bad luck.
>>> We lost some people in Al Asad Airbase when a mortar round bounce off a Jersey barrier into the bunker. Everybody reacted correctly in the response to the attack, just bad luck. <<<
Roger on bad luck / fate...
Note to the base engineers or SEABEES- construct hard shells on top of the bunkers.
Were you around Al Asad when a mini bus was T-boned by a military vehicle? That collision killed 7 passengers. (2006-2007 time frame)
And THIS >>>
In Dec. 2004, 22 friendlies (14 US mil.) killed in D-Fac at base in Mosul. I was in Kandahar at the time but word got around fast.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/iraq-war-fob-marez-bombing/
Liz Cheney: Not enough deaths! We can do better!
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