[Poohbah]

This is the stuff you DON'T hear about from the press.

That act of bravery took a lot of moral fortitude.

[eyespysomething]

``That was cool, even though they didn't have anything big that could (hurt) us,'' said Ivings, the gunner.

Now I know I'm old, *I* don't even know what cool is any more! LOL

Go Get 'Em!!

[anymouse]

Wow! This is the first detailed reporting of the heat of battle that I've seen so far. Kind of shows the soldier's eye view of what's really going on.

[anymouse]

link please.

[hnorris]

Rangers Lead the Way

[Let's Roll]

God, I love those guys.

[pnz1]

I think Fox News is showing footage of this battle-one of their reporters got some facial injuries from flying glass.

[Redcloak]

Across town, a tank company battled Iraqi troops guarding an ammunition depot. The tanks killed 20 men but captured 20 others, all wearing the insignia of the Republican Guard Nebuchadnezzar Brigade, based in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit.

This could be significant. A senior official at U.S. Central Command, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the brigade may have moved south to bolster defenses that have been devastated by the U.S.-led forces.

Hmmm... That is interesting. According to the latest Agonist.org sitmap the Nebuchadnezzar Brigade is supposed to be at Tikrit.

[Solson]

I believe this is the woman they were saving...

U.S. Army soldiers from A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment approach an injured woman who was caught in the crossfire with Iraqi forces over the Euphrates River when the U.S. Army siezed a bridge in Al Hindiyah, Iraq Monday. The Army's Task Force 4-64, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, took the strategic bridge in it's move north towards Baghdad. The woman, who was near a dead civilian man, was bleeding and apparently shot in the buttock.

LINK to picture

[madison46]

wow

[SuziQ]

others saw civilian pickups loaded with weapons and children riding alongside the fighters.

I wish some of those embedded journalists would get some PICTURES of this so we can plaster them all around the world! That is the most disgusting diplay of cowardice I believe I've every heard of; using children as shields!!

[Tennessee_Bob]

Kind of gives lie to the rantings that we're just there to massacre the Iraqi people.

Rangers Lead The Way!

[sweetliberty]

"By the end of this day, the Army would fight street to street, capture and kill scores of Saddam Hussein's troops, blow up a ruling party headquarters and destroy heaps of ammunition and mortars - and rescue one elderly woman from a firefight. "

That gave me chills!

[Arpege92]

WOW....our hero's rescuing a little old lady in the middle of battle! I couldn't be prouder!

[muawiyah]

This was the first story I paid attention to this morning. It first appeared as a snippet in the middle of a couple of hundred different reports about that battle, but it stood out in its simplicity.

Captain Chris Carter no doubt thinks it was the right thing to do, and no big deal. All those guys who do this sort of thing believe that about their own extraordinary bravery and gallantry.

That's the right word, too, because here's this soldier's soldier in command of a company of strong infantrymen armed with the best weaponry in history, and he paused to use his power to help and elderly woman who has found herself seriously hurt on the field of battle.

I focused my Zen consciousness on this event all day and walked a path of pure joy.

[rabidralph]

Aren't these the guys that do more by 9 am than most people do all day?

[CedarDave]

Earlier today, their was a story about a woman who was shot as she tried to make it across a bridge. The report said the Iraqi's through her off the bridge into the water and was rescued by troops who waded into the water to rescue her. Is this another version of the same story, or was there another rescue?

[HighRoadToChina]

Freedom BUMP!

[alexandria]

The 25 mm cannon shook the Bradley and the smell of gunpowder filled the passenger compartment. No one stopped to see if the man was killed or wounded.

Didn't need to. If he wasn't dead he was probably buried under the building he had been standing next to.

[Lady In Blue]

OUTSTANDING!