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culture . If a station ,
black roof country no gold
pavements , tired starlings . Yeah .
Silver horses ran down me
in your dark eyes . Yeah .
I don't like smile on you ,
leaving my contentment .
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Waking
up around 5:30 to take over towers .
Well , me and my school , we're getting
up at about 05 30 to go and guard at
six a.m. On July four
that 5 30 We woke up for a mission
And 5:35 1st rounds impacted on the cop .
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of july
2009
jones . Mm . Mhm . Mhm
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Mhm . Mhm . We started
hearing incoming rounds and at first
we didn't know if they were incoming or
outgoing , but we turned on the m
better and the Towers are saying
they're taking small arms . So my squad
got up and we started throwing all of
our stuff . I was one of the first
people out of the can and I ran down
skid row and I was right about the turn
onto the motor pool and I was the
sudden maybe I should wait for the next
day and coming around to come in so I
don't get blown up , you know And
waited for about 20 seconds that I was
about to go . I'll sudden around just
came in , flew right over my head and
blew up right next to me . Just took
off running the Tower three . Mhm . Mhm
Through on my Aiba ran up into our
tower two and when I got up there there
are rockets and mortars coming in and
everyone was just staring . So I
started with 50 cow searching ,
traversing the mountain side and got
them all back into it . Shooting you go .
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don't Yeah .
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that's all I got open right now . Yeah .
Yeah . And basically I ran to the
talk to start working the counter fire
because at the time we didn't really
think that there was a there was a
complex attack happened . It was
probably just some sort of indirect
fire because we have taken several
indirect fire incidents since we've
been out here . So basically went to
the talk to start working the counter
fire , had my fos go out , start to
look for targets and whatnot . Shortly
after I got to the talk , we started
taking pretty intense indirect fire ,
very accurate . Everything was landing
in the cop and tower started taking
small arms fire . So at that point it
became pretty obvious that we were
under a complex attack because you guys
are getting hit from all sides . I got
about 10 rounds off and hurt another
ladder explosions . Mhm . Everybody
starts screaming for a medic .
No , I think I think they're in those
houses somewhere that's that's pretty
close .
Mhm .
Yeah . So I have PFC casillas come to
the talk to uh figure out which targets
I wanted him to shoot at . You know ,
commander and I agree that we need to
do a target Indians which was right
behind us . Big mountain where a lot
more on had him , you know , go from
small to big start shooting the 60
millimeter mortar while we're waiting
on approval to shoot the 81 that one
twenty's out there so let him know so
they can see us go shoot uh go ahead ,
start laying into a target . Indians ,
he said roger we left , he ran out here
was about minute after that we started
hearing the 60 millimeter mortars start
rocking . 1312 , check I
guess . Oh yeah . Mhm .
Fire look Do 9
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Okay . Yeah .
Mhm . And that Okay . Fire ,
fire .
Yeah , okay . And I got about 10
rounds off . Then we heard another
ladder explosion . Everybody started
screaming for medics . So I knew that
the mortar pit had gotten hit because I
didn't hear the Mortar going off
anymore because I told him to shoot 40
rounds and you only got off proud about
15 to 20 . So I started to come back .
It's about 100 m on the run .
I noticed that the mortar pit was on
fire , ran inside and when I got to the
entrance I found two of our people
laying there face down and I didn't
have a pulse . So left him there ,
picked up the other guy checked him for
a pulse . He had a pulse . So grabbed
him with somebody else who is a private
Cutler came up behind me and we carried
him to the aid station . We dropped him
off with the medics and helped pull off
his Aiba and then went back out to the
tower . We wanted to return fire with
our mortar systems in both cases and
Fairburn were more german Faber and
immediately went to the pit to man his
man his tube as is the battle drill .
Um Pc cassius ran to the , ran
to the talk to get fire mission because
the columns in the mortar FDC were down .
Um so we gave him the fire mission from
the talk casillas ran back um and route
back to the pit after they fired the
first few uh few fire missions . Um PFC
Fairbairn was injured by shrapnel from
an incoming round . Pc cassius uh
without hesitation , uh actually pushed
his headquarters platoon sergeant and
uh mortar crew chief aside and uh put
forward on his shoulders and carried
him out of the pit um into incoming
around incoming enemy , uh indirect and
direct fire . Um and then route to the
CCP around struck and uh mortally
wounding both Fairburn and cassius .
Um So as far as he sees his actions ,
uh he ran into incoming fire three
different times . Um one to get a fire
mission in order for us to return fire
effectively on the enemy . The second
time to retrieve PFC Fairbairn who was
injured in the mortar pit and the third
time to take him to the CCP um , so
that , that was very worthy of us
putting him in for a potential silver
star hopefully gets approved for it
because I think he's very deserving .
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Yeah .
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Well we noticed the jingle truck
turning down a closed off road from the
new bizarre which you know , didn't
didn't look very good kind of shady .
So we get a chance to stop kept coming .
So we started shooting at it . Um they
opened up in the 240 and three and 4 is
from Tower three We were firing a saw
on M 14 and M4 from our southern main
opposition . All the cab of the truck .
It turned it when it turned the corner .
I got about 1520 ft down the road and
stop Probably because we killed the
driver three he stopped and then 3-5
seconds last second .
All I heard was a loud explosion turned
out to be a V bid . So I sprinted down
and checked on all the anna , made sure
they were okay . And that's when I
heard buyer yelling for help and
fricking ran down to him and his face
was cut open from the VB . We ran over
immediately elevated his head . I
started shoving gauze and in his cut ,
wrapped his head in Israeli bandage and
by the time I got it done , wrap
specialist channel was up on the roof .
He held by he'll take by her down to
the aid station . And at this whole
time we're taking we started taking
small arms and RPgs and they were still
um I . D . F going off around us . So
the fighting just continued to progress
and we could not get any mortars out to
everybody in the mortar pit had gotten
hit in some way and gotten injured . So
basically after that we heard a very
loud explosion that like I said ,
everybody in the talk got thrown pretty
much across the room and everybody else
and it was it's pretty obvious that
something happened . So we commander
and I made the decision to call Alamo .
So we didn't have any com so I typed in
Alamo Alamo . Alamo , basically what
Alamo does . It pulls all aircraft in
Afghanistan out here because they have
their in our wire and they're trying to
overrun us like battleground . We've
got hundreds of episodes , video on
demand and podcasts at Pentagon channel
dot mil .
We didn't have most of our
communications were knocked out by the
V bid . So I was pretty much myself and
Sergeant Ma who's talking to the
aircraft . We do that by radio uhh you
know , basically call it to the
aircraft , give him a situation update ,
tell me where the enemy is telling what
the friendly units are and then tom to
engage those units as you need to . All
right . And we're still taking
effective indirect fire . We just took
another dresses for talking right there .
Go ahead and take those individuals out
as soon as possible . You can find this
uh directing approximately 200 m .
The needs of our position of the cost
over . Did you get laid in stone ?
It's definitely a person . Yes , it
is . All right . We got something here
hot on the hill like an individual
crouching down where hard left turn
engaging . You're clear sir ,
ever . Mhm .
Output outbreak , this is able 95 .
Roger . The enemy in that column that
you guys hit with two or 3 years old
has been here in that robot . Roger
that we put two rockets on there and
Rebecca for another record run . Put
them in there right on Health . Great 7
3 Annual Marathon . Good Young Dickens .
It was a gun project
Denmark . Yeah . Now break this
disabled 95 . Roger . They're still
taking fire from that location . Roger
that we put some rockets on it . They
take the fire from the left . That's a
firm . Okay . Roger that leading
under far from entering
every three . Table 95 and find ready
to drop J . And M . So the fires on the
building the passage of shooting ,
they can help us spot the enemies on
the ground that we were able to see
because they're hiding behind a ridge
line or they're hiding in a low grounds .
So the aircraft not only help us spot
those enemies , but also engage and
destroy them if our own weapons systems
can't do it awesome please .
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yeah .
Yeah . Mhm That's
right .
Yeah .
I believe they were planning this
attack for us several months actually .
Um There are several key leaders in the
area . I believe there is a key leader
for our whole province . Mhm .
Mhm . Yeah .
I think numbers wise , my estimate is
about 2 300 Taliban . Um
I believe we wounded Around 40 killed
around
60 .
Yeah .
Uh huh .
Yeah .
Mhm . I think this company is special
within the fact that if it wasn't for
the commodity that the guys have around
here , if it wasn't for the fact that
we were able to keep were able to keep
everybody's morale up just within the
living conditions alone . Some guys
could possibly go crazy off of that
type of stuff . But the fact that we're
able to talk to each other , the fact
that we're able to joke around and you
know , play games to do whatever it is
that we've got to do to keep
everybody's heads up and even
especially after 4th july after that
happened , you know , all you have is
your team , All you have is you guys .
And so I think these companies handled
it very well Slovak in that situation ,
there's two types of people are gonna
break down , not want to do anything or
you're gonna realize that it's my life
and my buddy's life next to me that I
have to work for you and you're gonna ,
you know step up and do what you gotta
do and pretty much everybody that day
did what they had to do . It wasn't
anybody really that was , you know ,
quivering in the corner , scared not
doing their job . Everybody knew what
they had to do and there's just second
nature , it could have been a lot worse
if you guys didn't do what they had to
do because we were prepared were on
point , it saved a lot of other
people's lives . There was a lot of
heroic acts man on that day . Um
they performed not only to standard but
above standard um without their efforts ,
you know , the cop would have taken a
severe hit um and they possibly could
have reached our premier .
You see it . Mhm
The attack on cops , Iraq was an
assault on the men who fought bravely
that day , but it was also an affront
on the values that make America great .
It was no coincidence the insurgents
attacked on Independence Day . These
terrorists stand against everything .
The United States fights for
four July is a day to celebrate our
freedom and during all the wonderful
festivities , take a moment to remember
the sacrifice of men like cassius and
Fairburn along with the millions before
then that have paid the ultimate
sacrifice for our liberty .
So remind Rudy ,
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do what
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