Category Archives: Recollections

Night Patrol

December 23, 2000 – 8:12 pm

Written by Kevin Checchia
One night on patrol at an East German check point, our six man patrol was at our third stop looking through A/N PVS5’s. The NCOIC said that the East Germans in the guard tower were taking infared pictures of us, that’s why we kept seeing the flashes in PVS5’s. Well, this went [...]

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2/2 HOW Fires First Shots In Anger

February 23, 1991 – 5:26 pm

Submitted by: Bob Dobson
When the ground war started I was escorting a reporter from Stars and Stripes and another service. When the time table shifted we were scrambling to capture the first shot fired and located 2 HOW. The platoon we were watching fired its mission and prepared to jump. The Plt Leader, Gene Lanzillo [...]

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