We were just sitting there, waiting for the explosive guys to come check out and dispose of what the soldiers figured was an IED when the darn thing just blew up.
Lt. Col. Jeffrey Kelly and others with the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry regiment stationed in Mosul with a large portion of Alaska’s 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team were tipped off to a possible improvised explosive device on the side of a busy Mosul road when I was on patrol with them. [...]
Feeling an Explosion
Link to Blog EntryBy Margaret Friedenauer, News-Miner
We were just sitting there, waiting for the explosive guys to come check out and dispose of what the soldiers figured was an IED when the darn thing just blew up.
Lt. Col. Jeffrey Kelly and others with the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry regiment stationed in Mosul with a large portion of Alaska’s 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team were tipped off to a possible improvised explosive device on the side of a busy Mosul road when I was on patrol with them. [...]
