We catch up with Jon Wade from the 81mm mortars platoon. He details some sharp turns from the workup and flight over.... to the long, slow convoy into Iraq, where a medevac on the highway snaps everyone into a new reality. A reality that shaped how we fought and how he led in the future.
• joining 81s in Oki
• Super Bowl bet, broken jet, snow PT in Jersey
• acclimatizing in Kuwait
• the long convoy, first medevac seen, stress and luck
• living under daily mortars and calm under fire
• Seabees welding, improvised armor, morale and protection
• evolving IED threat, bad briefings, learning from craters
• Warth’s evacuation
• static crews, MAP tactics, and machine gunners’ impact
• curfew stop with foreign nationals and command discipline
• first sustained gunfight, rooftop shooter, controlled clearing
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