Not a Good Day to Die (72 page)

11.
Kraft…over.”
Kraft.

12.
With…halfpipe.
Kraft; Peterson; Ashline; LaCamera.

13.
Peterson’s…whatsoever.
Peterson; Ashline.

Chapter 9

1.
As the Al…attention.
Murray; Savusa; Marye; Overbaugh; special ops time line; Wiercinski.

2.
With the…valley.
Ryan.

Chapter 10

1.
After…Halfpipe.
Ropel; Peterson.

2.
Ropel…element.
Ropel.

3.
Helberg’s…Diane.
Helberg.

4.
Luman’s…position.
Luman; Schmitz; Nielsen.

5.
Luman…making it.
Schmitz; Luman.

6.
Luman…240.
Schmitz; Luman.

7.
It was…ammunition.
Luman; Schmitz.

8.
For…crack.”
Luman; Schmitz.

9.
By 10:30…
tomorrow
.
Baltazar; Nielsen; Preysler.

10.
LaCamera…Army.”
Kraft; Peterson.

11.
When…happen.”
Kraft.

12.
Kraft…safety.
Higley; Kraft; Grippe; Peterson.

13.
Grippe…whatsoever.”
Grippe; LaCamera; Hagenbeck; Kraft.

14.
Among…decade.
Perez; Kraft.

15.
Perex…
there?
Perez.

16.
The Army’s…day.”
Grippe; Perez.

17.
“He…Perez.”
Kraft.

18.
Up and down…of there.”
Grippe; Kraft.

19.
But as…fight.”
Peterson; another 1-87 infantry mortarman; Perez.

20.
The plan…fixed.”
Grippe; LaCamera.

Chapter 11

1.
The FARP…Hurley said.”
Pebsworth; Hardy; Bardwell; Hurley; Wiercinski.

2.
A couple…saviors.
Achey.

3.
The pilots…lot worse.”
Ryan.

4.
Roger…position.
Specialist Jason Gonzalez; Alcaraz; Peterson; Crombie.

5.
When…tally.
Alcaraz; Crombie.

6.
Lying…upbeat.
Special ops time line; other special ops sources;
Pitfalls of Technology.

7.
When…telephone.
Bello.

8.
Already…afternoon,” Hagenbeck said.
Hagenbeck; my personal experience waiting with the second lift.

9.
But as…night.
Hagenbeck; other sources in the Mountain TOC.

10.
By early…thought.
Nielsen; Helberg; Baltazar; Crombie; Luman.

11.
But then…done.
Special ops time line; Hagenbeck; another Bagram source.

12.
Jimmy…dark.
Hagenbeck.

13.
To Hagenbeck…initially.
Source in the Mountain TOC.

Chapter 12

1.
As…rucksacks.
Ropel.

2.
As the…forget.
Kraft.

3.
Bullets…slope.
Ashline; Peterson.

4.
Others…fell.)
Healy; Grippe.

5.
In the…ankles.
Perez.

6.
Unlike…Bagram.
Kraft; Peterson.

7.
Lying…wondered.
Kraft.

8.
Where the…ignored.
“Afghanistan—Fire Support for Operation Anaconda, by Robert H. McElroy,
Field Artillery,
September-October 2002; COMACC Sight Picture—Joint Air-Ground Operations (a December 2002 press release from Air Combat Command); “Left In Dark for Most Anaconda Planning, Air Force Opens New Probe,” by Elaine Grossman,
Inside The Pentagon,
October 3, 2002.

9.
Lost in…targets.”
LaCamera; Achey.

10.
By seizing…combat.
Achey.

11.
However…unanswered.
Thomas; McHale; Haas; Kraft; special ops time line.

12.
The problems…Iraq.
Davis, p.88.

Chapter 13

1.
Back…hill.”
McHale.

2.
“Fires priority…after the battle.
Bentley.

3.
By the time…minutes.
McHale; Haas; Southworth.

4.
The overall…MRE.
McHale.

5.
While the SF…Carwazi.
McHale; Southworth.

6.
McHale and…truck.
McHale; another TF Hammer source.

7.
The two…support.
McHale.

8.
Haas…cover.
Haas.

9.
Task Force…bomb.”
McHale; Haas.

10.
Other…Whale.
Southworth.

11.
Soon…minutes.
McHale.

12.
In the…pass.
McHale; Haas.

13.
It was there…Haas said.
Haas; McHale; another TF Hammer source.

14.
Then RPGs…convoy.
McHale; Haas; special ops time line.

15.
The Special…his men.
Haas.
“Kojast planes?!?”
Kojast is a Dari, not Pushto, word, and Zia was a Pushtun. However, like many Pushtuns, he spoke some Dari, and knew that while Haas spoke no Pushto, he did speak a little Dari also. Therefore, after venting in Pushto, Zia switched to Dari in order to make himself understood.

16.
The SF officers…support McHale said.
McHale.

17.
For…be.”
McHale; Haas.

18.
Haas eventually…them down.
Haas; McHale; Rosengard;
Weapon of Choice,
p. 286; special ops time line.

19.
Hammer’s…Zia.
Bentley.

20.
“The bottom…day.”
Rosengard.

Chapter 14

1.
Night…ass.”
Kraft; Ropel.

2.
Then, during…in the Halfpipe.
Kraft; Ropel; Healy; Peterson; Beers; Brault.

3.
Knowing they…binos.
Kraft; LaCamera.

4.
Word came…another day.
Healy; Ropel; Kraft.

5.
What LaCamera’s…blessed.”
LaCamera; Kraft; Peterson.

6.
The night…bitches.”
Murray; Savusa; Wiercinski; special ops source.

7.
When…light.
Nielsen; Koch.

8.
Helberg’s…watch.
Helberg; Luman.

9.
After…protectively.
Crombie.

10.
While…failure.
special ops time line; other special ops sources.

Chapter 15

1.
At midnight…to love.
Butler; my personal experience.

2.
In the middle…up and moving.
Baltazar.

3.
Butler’s…in their chests.
My personal experiences. Hagenbeck.

4.
By 8 a.m…. returned fire.
Butler; Baltazar.

5.
Roger Crombie…to their north.
Crombie.

6.
Baltazar had just…over their heads.
Butler; my personal observations.

7.
To Baltazar…couple of wadis.
Baltazar.

8.
As the incoming…added dryly.
Butler; Ouditt; Blossom; my personal observations.

9.
Watching…to the wadi.
Musella; Celano.