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'Ghost soldiers' raid farm house

Mar-12-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

A nice feature story from Stars & Stripes. Many photos included.

[Link to Full Article]
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Saturday, March 13, 2004

HAMMAM AL ALI, Iraq — The women in northern Iraq call them ghost soldiers.

The members of 2nd Infantry Division’s Company B, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment moved quickly and silently in their Stryker armored personnel carriers on a moonlit Tuesday night.

Their mission: to raid a house where a suspected terrorist was to be hiding.

As the Strykers left their base at Aggie Company Control Point at 1:30 a.m., the vehicles cruised swiftly through the darkness toward the drop-off point. Inside the vehicle, soldiers watched a monitor that showed their position and those of other vehicles in the platoon.

Night-vision video of the world outside was visible on another monitor connected to a roof-mounted camera. Two soldiers equipped with night-vision goggles and M-4s peered into the darkness from rear hatches.

As the Strykers neared the objective, they went into “sneak” mode, cutting back on the throttle so that the whir of the engines was barely audible.

(Thanks to ShadowsScarlet for the link)


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