A Break in the Routine
Posted by Matthew on January 30th, 2008 filed in JanuaryDay-to-day living here on COB Speicher can be … kind of boring.
Our embed unit — the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment – has been in reset mode, so Rob and I haven’t spent much time outside of the wire yet on this trip.
In between interviews, we pass the time like everyone else here. We go to chow. We go to the PX. We go to chow. We sleep. We go to chow. It seems like we spend a lot of time going to chow.
It isn’t always routine, though.
Yesterday, Rob and I were just coming out of the chow hall when a loud WOOSH! split the calm of the afternoon. I looked up to see a long, white trail of exhaust shooting overhead. It was an outgoing missile from a Guided Multi Rocket Launch System here. The huge rocket was moving so fast I had to chase it with my eyes for a few seconds before catching sight of it. About 10 seconds later another rocket shot overhead. A third quickly followed.
B Company Commander Jack Moore told us the GMLRS unit here was probably responding to a call-for-fire from a unit in trouble outside the wire.
It was a good reminder to us that a war is still going on here.
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