Back 'home'

We're back in Baghdad, safe and sound. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for some. As we flew back today, we saw a convoy with a HUMMV on fire. The IED must have exploded only moments before we flew over; our pilot circled the site, but nothing to be done, so we continued on. This was about 5 minutes outside of Baghdad by helo.

It looked pretty bad. I didn't have the right angle to snap a pic (once I'm strapped in with my IBA on, I have about a 15 degree range of motion), but the vehicle was messed up pretty bad. Couldn't tell if anyone was hurt, but chances are good that someone was. The sad thing is that we will probably never know more about the incident than we do now- if anyone was hurt or killed, who they were, their family, nothing.