Camp Anaconda
January 10, 2010Someone drove a car into the water supply that fed Camp Anaconda, which contaminated our water, which led to a water shortage. We had a lot of rain around that time and our vehicles were nasty, but we couldn't use any water to wash them. So, I drove one of our trucks to a mud puddle and washed it with a broom. It worked pretty well.
I tried to keep a positive attitude as much as possible, but good times were few.
These next few pictures show a mortar that came through one of our latrines. Very fortunately for the people in there, the mortar was a dud and it didn't explode. The latrines were just a small trailer that they installed some toilets in.
here's where it entered through the ceiling
went through the floor
They can't leave unexploded ordnance lying around, so they had to move the trailer and dig it out. You can see the round in this picture.
EOD exploded it after they dug it out. It takes a brave soul to look at all the available jobs in the Army and say, "I want the one where I have to handle bombs."
The insurgents hit something with this one. This was about our third day in Iraq.
This one didn't turn out well. This rocket hit at the PX and a guy caught some shrapnel in the neck. He didn't make it.
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