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Paul McLeary Dsipatch

Mar- 9-2008 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

Paul McLeary has published a new dispatch on his site from his time embedded with the 2/25 SBCT. It's called, "Part I: The Farmhouse." Excerpt:

“Looks like most of this stuff has been placed here pretty recently,” Captain Jeffrey Higgins observed as we walked a reed line along a canal with Sergeant Jamie Giles, inspecting a weapons cache 1st platoon found there earlier that morning. The two noted that the jugs of homemade explosives, 155mm and 120mm projectiles, blasting caps, and command wire (commonly used for IEDs) looked relatively clean, meaning they hadn’t been sitting outside for very long. They also found a Soviet DSHK (“Dishka”) rifle, a mounted heavy machine gun that can burn through several hundred rounds a minute, which is a pretty heavy-duty piece of weaponry to have lying around.

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