AD DAWR — “Wake up!” yelled the cannon crew chief. “We have got to get on the road in 15 mikes,” he said, while paratroopers squirmed out of their sleeping bags and began to prepare for the upcoming mission.
It was an hour-long trip from Forward Operating Base Sad to Ad Dawr. But with all the moving elements the trip would turn into a more than three-hour journey.
Dozens of vehicles, making up the better part of a battalion, lined up at the base’s front gate, ready to take the fight to the enemy.
Anxious to get rolling, paratroopers in one vehicle started to exchange stories about different missions they had been on or the roadside bombs that had hit their convoy.
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