Armor Geddon has a terrific first person view of a GI on election day in Iraq.

It was around 1000; we were driving on a main route between villages. There was a reed laying across half of the road. My driver noticed it the few times we passed it before the sun came up, but now it was light out.

“Red, this is Red 8Golf, there’s some wire coming out of that bamboo reed,” SPC Stoker said. He was SSG Terry’s gunner.

This was our third pass of this spot and I was already passed it. We had noticed the bamboo but not the wire. “Red 7, this is Red 6. Go back and take a look at it with your section, my section will pull ahead and pull security.”

Worth reading