This is jockle podcast number 398 with echo Charles and me jockle willing good evening. I go good evening

Waiting for ISIS to come popping out of the threshold

I leveled my rifle and watched the doorway as David prepared a grenade from across the courtyard

He waved it to signify he was ready and I nodded he crept around the corner of the hut toward the door my finger on the trigger

I aim no more than a foot away from David as he tossed a grenade into the room and darted back around the corner

I ducked behind cover and countered out loud 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 boom

David was already rushing toward the smoking doorway as I turned the corner and hurried to get behind him

He put his rifle on automatic and sprayed the room with lead

Jam he yelled with his rifle momentarily disabled. He ducked out of the way batter up

I'd practice this scenario a hundred times in the military as soon as David was clear of the doorway

I was already shooting my own rifle in

I walked in an arc directly in front of the doorway being sure to shoot into the room at every

possible angle

Reloading I stepped back and slammed the fresh magazine into my rifle David rushed into the room and I hooked left

I followed in and went right as we entered an Iraqi soldier rushed up and grabbed a BKC

light machine gun that was laying on the floor

Entering the house's tiny kitchen. I quickly scanned for threats kill count clear

There were no no shoot targets open door. I moved to the doorway toward the dirt floor that lay across the threshold

tunnel

I cleared the room and fired into the tunnel now at my feet then took further stock of the room around me

ISIS sleeping pads and gear IEDs homemade grenades and other explosive components littered the floor

Screw this it seemed like everything in the room was designed to kill me

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