In preparation for writing about the 12 Aug 05 firefight, I need to clarify some locations on the ING Compound in the northwest corner of Husaybah. I’m hoping some vets can help me with that.  It was called ‘ING’ because a few Iraqi National Guard soldiers were using it at one point, but they were long gone in 2005.  India Company 3/2 used it as a forward combat outpost, to keep eyes on Market Street and the surrounding neighborhoods  They rotated India’s 3 rifle platoons through it, and sometimes referred to it as ‘the platoon position’.  Many firefights (including 12 August) occurred here.

Below is an overhead imagery map that I’m annotating to show streets and certain buildings.  It’s from Google Earth, which says its dated 30dec04.  Possibly a few things changed by February 05 when India took over, but probably not much.  I’m hoping some guys can accurately ID the various buildings and posts.  (Note the orientation.  North is down on this image)

Background on ING:

There were just a few buildings really on the very northwest corner of Husaybah that had been all shot up. They [Marines] had moved out and occupied, and it was their Forward Platoon, almost like an outpost, although it was within a couple hundred meters of the main camp, where the rest of the company was. It was barricaded, you know, HESCO barriers, so you couldn’t get to it other than from inside Camp Gannon to move out to that area. They had a Platoon Forward out there, because they could observe parts of the city that you couldn’t see from Camp Gannon.  …You could look down on Market Street, probably the busiest area of Market Street right along there. It just seemed to be the routine up there that somebody would come along Market Street and challenge them by either taking a few sniper shots or stop to try to pop off an RPG… Although the Marines didn’t occupy all the space in between [Gannon and ING], in essence it was an extension of Camp Gannon into the town so that they could be looking straight down Market Street and a little bit into the southwest part of the town out there. –LtCol Mundy interview in ‘Awakening, Vol IIIA’