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  • The Real Story Behind the April 9th Insurgency in Iraq (must-read by a US soldier who was there)

    05/19/2004 8:56:56 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 241 replies · 5,656+ views
    Intellectual Conservative ^ | 17 May 2004 | Jarob D. Walsh, U.S. Army Specialist
    My company is fuel transportation. We are the Army Reserve 724th Transportation Company. But in Iraq we have civilian contractors Kellogg Brown and Root. They do all the fuel hauling. So we basically become force protection for convoys. Friday, April 9th, about 7 a.m., my platoon started getting ready for a fuel convoy from LSA Anaconda in Balad to Baghdad International Airport (BIOP). We were running security for 21 civilian fuel trucks. We had 26 in the whole serial. I was in the 21st truck with a civilian, riding shotgun (passenger). I had never ridden with a civilian on a...