From Esli-
Alright, this is not my infamous GMLRs video, but it is a video file I can actually send via e-mail.
On 7 February 2008, I accompanied members of B Troop on an area clearance mission in an area called the Salt Flats in Arab Jabour, south of Baghdad. We discovered several dead civilians, a large quantity of buried ordnance, and what appeared to be one half of a ZU-23-2. We left the dead, backhauled the cannon back to the squadron area, and brought in EOD to conduct a controlled detonation of the ordnance. EOD used 135 lbs. of C4 to blow the ordnance. Before they blew it, we moved all of our Soldiers behind a small hill, and my gunner placed his camera on the top of the hill and ran back to the track. I filmed it from the turret of my Brad, but alas, that file is too big to send. This day was also significant because it was the second time I let my driver run over an Iraqi car, albeit an old piece of abandoned, inoperable, junkā¦.
687: This is an overview of the Salt Flats.
686: This picture shows the ordnance lined up and being inspected by EOD.
690: This is me with the cannon, which I actually found. We found a ZU-23-2 mount, sans cannons, in a different field, on a different day.
691: This is the single cannon after burning off the underbrush. B Troop was the quickest to burn stuff.
(somehow Esli forgot to send that one!)
696: Here is EOD rigging the whole package to blow.
Brad, did he look as goofy in hi skool as he does in pic 690?
Might be goofy looking but I’ll match myself up with Brad any day…
I have photographic evidence that I was one of the greatest dorks in my school. Esli was dorky, but not EVEN in my league.
Jay, however, made us booth look cool.