Mortar attack injures five members of 48th Brigade (at Base Shopping Ctr)

RamboLiberal

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Thu Jun-02-05 12:03 PM
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Mortar attack injures five members of 48th Brigade (at Base Shopping Ctr)

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/11792586.htm

CAMP STRIKER, Iraq - Five members of the Georgia-based 48th Brigade Combat Team were injured in a Tuesday night mortar attack of the nearby Camp Liberty shopping complex.

Two of the soldiers were seriously injured in the attack, which happened about 7:30 p.m. They were taken to a medical facility in Germany, said brigade spokeswoman 2nd Lt. Selena Owens.

Pfc. Kevin Cohrs of Brunswick was inside the post exchange building, which is 50 to 100 feet from the site of the blast.

"All I heard was a big humming noise and a big boom," Cohrs said. "The PX filled up with dust."

Cohrs said he went outside and saw bodies strewn on the plaza.

Posted cause I thought this shows just how bad things are in Iraq. In some ways this is worse than Nam since at least there the troops had some safe places to go for R&R. Stress levels in Iraq just have to be incredible.

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RubyDuby in GA

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Thu Jun-02-05 12:07 PM
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1. They just got there!

They deployed mid-May.

And of course our local papers have been all sis-boom-rah....things are peachy keen and wonderful there.

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UpInArms

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Thu Jun-02-05 12:10 PM
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2. I am so glad that Al-Zarqawi is dead! Otherwise there would be

major incidents happening like this in Iraq :sarcasm:

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The_Casual_Observer

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Thu Jun-02-05 12:24 PM
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3. No r&r at the coffee houses in Baghdad for sure. The whole

country is "enemy territory."

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expatriot

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Thu Jun-02-05 01:46 PM
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4. I don't think that is correct what you said about Vietnam....

There were guerrilla "terrorist"-if-you-will attacks in Vietnam... the Vietcong would carry out attacks against U.S. and South Vietnamese government troops inside Siagon itself and they would even infiltrate U.S. bases, etc.

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