By Sgt. Armando Monroig
5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
Out of a tragic incident will come some good. U.S. troops triggered the process of healing and closure, May 20, at a former combat outpost in As Sadah, four miles north of Baqubah, Iraq.
The outpost was partially destroyed by a deadly car bomb attack in April. Members of 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, who operated the outpost, requested the remaining structure be torn down and a new school built in its place.
Combat engineers from Company E, 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, from Fort Hood, Texas, were called in to demolish the remainder of the structure.
The engineers placed 520 pounds of explosives in the building, wired them together, and within hours, turned the outpost into a pile of rubble, facilitating the construction process, said 1st Lt. Benjamin Dowell, executive officer for Company E.
Safety measures were taken to ensure that homes in the community and the nearby mosque would not be damaged from the blast.
“Charges were placed on the opposite side of the building as the mosque, so that not only would the force of the blast be less on that area, but also so that the building would be much more likely to fall away from the mosque,” said Dowell.
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