Chapter 22 – Gray Zones

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Images: (click to enlarge)

Task Force “Green” special operators
Special Forces ODA team
Searching through the orchards
Fuel truck found and destroyed. (Chuck Yazzinni photo)
Weapons in truck bed, including the barrel of a 14.5mm AA gun–in foreground. (Chuck Yazzinni photo)
Flatbed truck found with weapons and improvised rocket launcher in bed. (Chuck Yazzinni photo)
Finding 14.5mm ZPU gun (Chuck Yazzinni photo)
CH-53

Maps: (click to enlarge)

Figure 22-1, Start of Operation Outlaw, 8 July 2005
Figure 22-2, End of Operation Outlaw, 8 July 2005

Footnotes:

1. Stephen Davis, interview in Awakening Vol III, p71
2. Stephen Davis, interviews with author
3. Sean Naylor, in Relentless Strike: The Secret History or Join Special Operations Command, p279-280
4. Stanley McChrystal, in My Share of the Task, p92-93
5. Ibid, p93
6. Ibid, p181
7. Ibid, p180
8. Ibid, p181
9. Ibid, p182
10. Ibid, p180
11. Sean Naylor, in Relentless Strike, p271
12. Stanley McChrystal, in My Share of the Task, p182. 
13. Ibid. 
14. Ibid, p183
15. Tim Mundy, email to author
16. Jonathan Penland, interview with author\
17. Chuck Yannizzi, interview with author
18. Unit activity logs, shared with author
19. Jonathan Penland, interview with author
20. Henry Sowell, interview with author
21. Ibid.
22. Kyle Miller, interview with author
23. Scott Edwards, interview with author
24. Chuck Yannizzi, interview with author
25. Scott Edwards, interview with author
26. Henry Sowell, interview with author
27. Ibid.

3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines and the fight for Al-Qaim, Iraq

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