[hawkaw]

Anyone just hear Bloom.....he said the road they are on near the Karbala Gap(my guess) has been widened for American tanks........like the battlefield was prepped.

No I did not hear that but that is excellent news!!!!

[Robert A Cook PE]

"Road being widened" (before tanks got there) might reference the bulldozers/armored dozers/combat support vehicles/tanks with mine-clearing plows at work BEFORE the tanks/Bradleys he was riding in were at work.

Plowing the ground in defensive area to clear mines is a very common "second stage" after the firing stops.

(First stage is stop shooting and figure out where everybody actually is so you don't shoot your own troops. Then arrange combat vehicles into quick defensive positions, then call in the combat engineers to clear up the battle ground so you can regroup and refuel and rearm in "safety" without running over mines.)