F Troop deals final blow to building that set off IED

[unhappycamper]

First Sgt. Zeneido Gonzalez of F Troop, 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment watches as a tank and Apache helicopter take part in destroying a house used as a trigger-point for an improvised bomb attack that killed three of the troop’s soldiers on March 10.


F Troop deals final blow to building that set off IED
By Michael Gisick, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Monday, March 31, 2008

BALAD RUZ, Iraq — F Troop had some unfinished business involving a building in the desert.

The building wasn’t much to look at — one soldier compared it to a “porta-john looking thing,” if they made porta-johns out of concrete.

It was plopped down in the middle of a nowhere that could have been a set from the planet Tatooine.

But from the building stretched command wires that set off a terrible scene on March 10 — the commander’s Humvee blown upside down and burning, the driver, who was the only one to survive, running away on fire.

So take that, building: a tank round in the side. Take another. Have a third.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=53720

[hobbit709]

1. When I saw "F Troop", I was thinking Larry Storch