Chapter 19 – Target Softening

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Images: (click to enlarge)

Scout-sniper team in a desert hide site
Reaper 7 (l-r top): Jeff Weaver, Pat Cassidy, Carlos Sanchez, (l-r bottom) Aaron Smith, Jon Osbourne, Jacob Lowe,
Roberto Mendez
Snipers ambush insurgents, 30may05
Weapons found in trunk, 30may05
Bomb strike, frame 1
Bomb strike, frame 2
Bomb strike, frame 3
Wrecked buildings hit by 11 Jun 05 airstrikes (Tony Davis photo)

Maps: (click to enlarge)

Figure 19-2. Target softening airstrikes, 11 June 2005. Locations based on post-strike reporting. 

Footnotes:

1. Aaron Smith, interview with author
2. Ibid.
3. Jeff Weaver and Aaron Smith, interviews with author
4. A short-barreled version of the M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW)
5. Jeff Weaver, interviews with author
6. Governor in Iraq is Found Dead, Washington Post, 1jun05
7. Unit activity logs shared with author
8. Ibid.
9. Carlos Rosario, Jeff Weaver, Aaron Smith, interviews with author
10. Carlos Rosario, interview with author
11. Aaron Smith, interview with author
12. Ibid.

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

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