[Calpernia]

I LOVE this story. But a few things jumped out at me. If his wife worked normally at this hospital and he normally went there; why did he need to walk back to scout it to draw the maps? Why wouldn't he have been able to do this onsite rather than return and come back?

AND he mentioned another POW, what happened to him?

Any insight anyone?

[Steve0113]

If his wife worked normally at this hospital and he normally went there; why did he need to walk back to scout it to draw the maps?

I've been to my wife's office a number of times. I know the path from the front door to her office. I have no idea how the rest of the building is laid out. This guy probably didn't, either.

[Calpernia]

Answering one of my own questions: "AND he mentioned another POW, what happened to him? "

Unfortunately, I reread and saw it was a uniform and not a pow he mentioned in addition to Lynch :(

[Fester Chugabrew]

"If his wife worked normally at this hospital and he normally went there; why did he need to walk back to scout it to draw the maps?"

There was probably some fluidity as to how many enemy were present and where they were located. These kinds of details, when scouted out, proved invaluable.

[B4Ranch]

He told them about the woman prisoner, and about a U.S. military uniform he had also seen, presumably of a U.S. soldier killed in the fighting in and around Nasiriyah, some of the heaviest of the war.

Is this what you are referring to?

"and about a U.S. military uniform he had also seen, presumably of a U.S. soldier killed in the fighting"

These were probably the men that they buried outside the hospital.

[honeygrl]

"I LOVE this story. But a few things jumped out at me. If his wife worked normally at this hospital and he normally went there; why did he need to walk back to scout it to draw the maps? Why wouldn't he have been able to do this onsite rather than return and come back? "

I use to work at a hospital and my husband visited me several times there.. he still can't get around the place without asking me which way to go :) Of course this is a large hospital here. I saw in the rescue video they went down a couple flights of stairs so it could be a large hospital in a town of 500,000 people. (i think that's the number of people I read were there.. i could be wrong though) And as to the other POW, I'm afraid it was likely one of those 11 bodies they also found. 2 of them were supposedly in the hospital morgue.

[PhilDragoo]

They asked him to return to the six-story, 234-bed hospital to gather information on its layout, its hallways, stairways and doors, its basement and whether a helicopter could land on its roof.

Why wouldn't he have been able to do this onsite rather than return and come back?

Because he's not Dustin Hoffman in Rainman.