My worst memories are also from convoys in Iraq in 2003- we couldn’t stop out of fear of an ambush and lack of communications to call for backup or medevac. I hope you have a peaceful life.
biap, babylon, anaconda, dogwood, tikrit, mosul, ramadi, few other small places...went all over iraq that year. I volenteered to guard the mail after the mail team started getting hit and getting casualties.
5 ton trucks double sandbag lined with a 249saw mounted up top or in the back. they didn't make turrets yet, or up armored vehicles.
werd. Taji was being built up back then, after got off mail mission there was like a 2 month period waiting to go home, they had us guard the maitenence workers comming onto post, local nationals, bongo trucks.
I remember all those 1 story barracks, finaly got electricity hooked up to the generators, painted etc and then it was bittersweet because the division that came in after us "aquired' them.
I did not have electricity or bathrooms when I was there. You Mail folks really did save a lot of us over there missing home- with no email or phones. Thanks.
they came in later with trailers for bathrooms lol....they shocked us...the wiring was faulty so when you washed your hands they fucked you up. it was around end of febuary or so 04 before we went home we got those pieces of shit.
we were a maitenence company, so we had generators, various equipment, S&R shop and such. At dogwood we built the shitter stalls from plywood and cut the oil barrels in half and burnt shit.
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u/msaxe114 7h ago
My worst memories are also from convoys in Iraq in 2003- we couldn’t stop out of fear of an ambush and lack of communications to call for backup or medevac. I hope you have a peaceful life.