True story from my son in Iraq.

reedsterstl

reedsterstl

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got this today from my 22 y/o in Iraq. Kind of raised the hair alittle.

"Now the fire fight. I was sitting on a Traffic Control Point when i got the call to chase a vehicle. I pulled out of my hide position and started chaseing the car. We fired 3 warning shots then all of a sudden we were getting rained on with bullets. Tracers were flying everywhere. I saw bullets riccocet off the pavement in front of my truck. I decided to pull off the road to get out of the field of fire. I pulled off the road and hit the low ground. We stoped takeing rounds for about 30 secs, when i turned arround and faced the way i just came, more bullets starting pouring in on us. So, i used my expert driveing skills and evaded the fire and sped us to safety. One of the guys in the back of the truck was hit in his arm twice. It blew out both arterys. he bled like that for about 3-5 minutes before we did anything to him first aid wise. Cause we were in a fire fight. We ended up getting back to our base and got a med evac for him. His pulse was 78 before he got on the bird. So, he was at good pulse for takeing two to the arm. I ended up getting credit for saveing the lives of three people not includeing my own. The next day we went out to the truck and examined it. It turns out that when i was turning the truck i was leaning forward and that saved my life. There was a bullet indentation in the front of the truck between the two windshields on the inside. We traced the impact angle and point and determined that the bullet came in 3-6 inches behind where my head was while i was leaning forward. if i were sitting in the normal spot my head would have been gone. We also descovered that the bullet was in fact a 7.62mm fired out of ,get this, OUR 240B. it turns out that there was another humm-v chaseing what he thought to be a car. It turned out to be me. And they lit me up after we shot warning shots. The higher chain of command knows about it....but it was initialy reported as an ambush...so that is how it went down in the log book. So the guy that was shot, was shot by friendly fire...but according to all the books, it was an ambush...so he is getting a purple heart. Well, this is a lengthy letter, so i am goin to take off now. I hope to hear from you soon.
love always
mike"



reed

ps, my son cost me a fortune in tickets with his "expert driving" skills :D
 
glad to hear he is safe...it must be hell for the family...............i have just heard that a friend of ours has just been posted to iraq next week, he was just finishing a tour of northen irland....kind of like out of the frying pan into the fire.
 
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
 
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Reed,

I know you are very proud of your son. He is a reflection of his upbringing and environment. You should be proud of yourself as well. It sounds like he has risen tothe occasion under adversity. That is one of the true tests in life.

Scott
 
Thanks for all the kind words. It is troublesome at times not to think what he is doing over there. I had one in the air and one on the ground over there at the same time.

Mike says he is to return home sometime in April. Just hope he keeps his wits about him. He has grown up alot since being in the Army, and yes I couldn't be more proud of him.

This whole IRAQ thing is going on too long and we need to put a stop to it real soon.

Again, thanks for the kind words and we all, pw's and everyone should be proud of our guys and gals in uniform.

reed
 
Glad to hear he's allright Reed, I think of your boys often, my sons still in Tech school up in Great lakes, he's hoping to get based in NC in january to start training with the Marines, needless to say, his mother would prefer they keep him in GL's giving shots to the new recruits, I know my boy and that would drive him crazy.

Gav
 
Hey Gav,

Your boy will do fine as a Marine, all my respect goes to the Marines and Army folks.

Keep me posted on his career.

Reed
 
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