Let's walk through that. So what was the mission for that day? What were you guys doing?

Because you're not now tell us also too are you driving or are you riding this time?

No, so this time, you know, I go there, I'm with 82nd again.

We're called to help out a small unit of us, Task Force 300 is called to help out.

It's a bunch of scouts, airborne scouts.

So I'm put with them and we're supposed to help first

cave out during the surge,

because this was the big surge in Baghdad.

So we're just north of it in Bekuba and Zaganea and along the river banks

patrolling all that area where you don't have a lot of options with roads

with the river banks right there and they like to hide in the palm grows along where all the water is.

So our job was to go there and clear all that area and find them all because they're running out of Baghdad staying trying to stay hidden

along the riverbanks and all the palm groves so we had to go flush them out of there.

So that day we're just on another mission of resupplying and checking on everybody and make sure the

camps need. I know we're bringing some engineers out to help rebuild or build up one of the

forward operating bases.

I was a lead vehicle in the passenger seat,

the convoy commander of it,

and our NCOIC of the convoy.

We left about 7 o'clock that morning 730 and the last I remember is I do a joke about it was having a cup of coffee because the lieutenant the S4 supply officer was going to come out with us, or Captain Grassball, was going to come out with us and just check his supply line too.

He's really good about that. Talk about a good officer. there's one right there.

He would make sure everybody was taking care of

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