Witnesses recall scene after attack on convoy

Nathanial Trevers walks to the courtroom at Camp Lejeune on Jan 8. Trevers, a former staff sergeant, was the first witness called to testify at the court of inquiry that is looking into the March 2007 shooting incident in Afghanistan involving a Marine Special Operations Command unit.


Witnesses recall scene after attack on convoy
By Trista Talton - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Jan 8, 2008 20:13:37 EST

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — After the fire and smoke began to clear from the blast, Nathanial Travers remembers hearing gunfire in front of his Humvee in the middle of the convoy.

The former staff sergeant and member of Fox Company, Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, was the first witness to testify Tuesday in the court of inquiry examining what happened March 4, 2007, following the attack by a suicide car bomber. Maj. Fred Galvin, 38, Fox Company’s commander at the time, and Capt. Vincent Noble, 29, the platoon and convoy leader, are the main focus of the inquiry.

As the convoy of six uparmored Humvees left the site where they were attacked, on Route 1 in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province, the former staff sergeant noticed vehicles on the roadside. There was a sport utility vehicle riddled with what looked like bullet holes, he said.

Inside were two people slumped over in the front seat. He assumed they were dead.

From his viewpoint in the right rear of his Humvee, the third in the convoy, Travers said he could see the second Humvee ahead.


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