I am glad you posted it. A little dose of reality is good sometimes and there are lessons to be learned from things like it. When it's 0400 and you have had little sleep for awhile and want to take a quick nap maybe this will pop up in the recesses of the mind and keep you up for a little longer. Whether you are in Fallujah or sitting in a Patrol car somewhere waiting until you can get back to the barn.

It reminds me of a story I recently heard of a M1 MBT on overwatch for a Traffic Control Point getting "tagged" by individuals with spray paint. If the guy wasn't my best friend I wouldn't even believe it. His theory was the sniper threat is so great the crew didn't want to risk exposing themselves to shoo them away...Not sure if there were dismounts there or what. I heard the story when he first came back from a TDY gig and I was just glad he was back and didn't go into any details.