[ArrogantBustard]

Under fire from artillery, tank shells, mortars and antiaircraft artillery bursts fired in a low arc toward them, Sergeant Brown squatted and fired shoulder-launched Javelin antitank missiles to take out two armored personnel carriers and ignite a troop truck full of Iraqi infantrymen. An hour before, Sergeant Brown had fired his very first Javelin at an Iraqi troop truck in the distance.

Do I understand correctly that SGT Brown had never fired a Javelin prior to this engagement? Wow! Good shooting!

[Wright is right!]

I think the article to mean that he fired his first Javelin OF THE ENGAGEMENT. I'm sure he was trained on the missile before he got there. That, of course, takes nothing away from his superb marksmanship. Just he and one other marksman wiped out the whole formation.

Michael