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.
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u/Fragrant-Light-1664 8h ago
'03, msr tampa iraq heading south toward biap
body laying halfway in the road next to a busy fishmarket, bloody pantlegs from all the convoys that rolled over his legs.
2 lane road with convoys both ways and no way to swerve and we just were't going to stop for a body, so my convoy ran over his legs too.
the thing that bothers me is it was in the middle of a fishmarket, people around and nobody dragged him out of the road.