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| "In Bosnia," Storlie said, "Bill and I were in stressful situations. We were in riots, and we did weapons searches. But it wasn't like Iraq. People weren't shooting at you. There weren't roadside bombs everywhere." Or mortars. Or rocket-propelled grenades. Or complete chaos. "The Bosnians kept a lot of their government structure," Storlie said. In Iraq, a million rules were replaced by none. What's left, Storlie said, is a conflict in which danger can come from any direction at any time. "You're driving in traffic not knowing if someone is going to drive up beside you with a gun," Storlie said. Nor do you know if someone will drop a grenade in your vehicle from an overpass. "You always make a quick lane change," Storlie said. And you're always on edge. "In Iraq," he said, "you sit sideways in vehicles so you can observe and shoot easily, and so you can square off your body armor." No one wants to take one in the side where the plates don't meet. "Weapons are always ready," Storlie continued. "And you're constantly looking at people's hands to see what they're holding. You're looking at kids." You're looking because you know you may have to shoot a child if he or she is holding explosives. |
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,3...2029841,00.html
Here another report.
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| I know there were plenty of women brought into our prison camp who were caught with grenades and other explosive devices strapped to their bodies. I saw these women, and you would have never suspected them to be terrorists. They looked like normal Iraqi women. |
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/news/st...ews/112727.html
And another.
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| I sat sideways and pointed my 9 mm to the door the whole time. Whenever anyone walked around our vehicle, the three of us inside talked to each other about how many, what they were doing, etc. Soldiers have been killed in cars at roadblocks by people throwing in grenades or shooting at point blank range with handguns. |
http://www.lompocrecord.com/articles/2004/...news/news12.txt
I think (though I am no expert on this) that the psychic environment of this occupation is later going to be recognized as very unique.
