Untimely Death Rattles Fellow Soldiers

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-guard21jun21,1,3958813,print.story?coll=la-home-local

Blackouts are ordered at night. Even flashlights are forbidden. Conspicuous landmarks are dismantled. Officers tell their men not to salute them, for fear they will be targeted by lurking snipers.

In the wake of a mortar barrage that killed California National Guard Spc. Daniel Paul Unger nearly four weeks ago, life has changed drastically at Forward Operating Base Kalsu, a scar of bulldozed earth and rubble that is home to Corona's Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 185th Armor Regiment.

Life is also different at the unit's brigade headquarters in Balad, about 68 miles north of Baghdad. There, on Wednesday, a rocket streaked into the Anaconda logistical base and exploded in a crowd of off-duty soldiers, killing three and wounding 26 others.

The explosion, which hurled shrapnel through walls, plate glass windows and vehicles, prompted commanders to order their soldiers to wear flak vests and helmets at all times. That particularly uncomfortable precaution was instituted as temperatures climbed well above 100 degrees.

[MidwestMomma]

1. I read the article title as "Untimely death rattle follows soldiers'

Thought there was some kind of curse on them. Sadly, the truth is far more tragic than my fiction.

Of course, they do have curse, his name is Bush...