Introducing: Taking Cover

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🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Hosted by NPR's Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and Graham Smith of the Investigations unit, Taking Cover isn't just a show about the worst Marine-on-Marine friendly fire incident in modern history. It's a story of betrayal, brotherhood, and what's owed—to families, the wounded, and to the American public—when we send our young to war. Coming soon, after this week's conclusion of White Lies.

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0:00.0	On April 12, 2004, the Marines of Echo Company hunkered down at their combat outpost, an abandoned
0:07.8	schoolhouse in Fallujah, Iraq.
0:10.9	And then...
0:11.9	I saw flames everywhere for a few seconds.
0:16.7	Big ass, stockways, strapped, those ripping through everyone.
0:19.8	And then everything went black.
0:24.8	They were hit.
0:25.9	Many were wounded.
0:27.6	Boom didn't make it home.
0:30.1	See the hole in the building?
0:32.1	It was like a square.
0:34.1	And when they launched that mortar, it hit.
0:37.2	Boom, I mean, one out of a million shots.
0:41.2	A one out of a million shot that wasn't luck, but a terrible mistake.
0:47.4	I'm Tom Bowman.
0:48.4	And I'm Graham Smith.
0:49.9	We're the hosts of Taking Cover, a new investigative podcast from NPR.
0:54.3	It's been two decades since the U.S. invaded Iraq.
0:57.8	At first, it seemed like a quick victory.
1:00.2	Remember President Boyshed as of what may of, of O3?
1:03.3	Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.
1:06.2	The war's over.
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