War Stories from Fallujah

Did you ever want to read a well-written, first person account of combat in Fallujah? Well first lieutenant Neil Prakash, is both an excellent writer and an superb story-teller. He is also a tank platoon leader in Avenger Company, which is organized as Team Avenger for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).

The full breakdown of 1LT Prakash’s place in the scheme of things is: 1LT Prakash, Avenger Co, 2nd Battalion — 63rd Armor Regiment “Lions” (2-63AR), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF 2), Forward Operations Base (FOB) WARHORSE

His blog, Armor Geddon, looks to be a cross between a journal and collection of short stories about his adventures when the U.S. took down Fallujah. I highly recommend going back to his first posts and then reading forward so as to read his tale in chronological order.

Here’s a teaser regarding some of the exercises that occurred just before we went into Fallujah:

SGT P told me all about the rehearsal yesterday that took the task force up to the attack position. They had reconned the site where they would stage for the attack and where we would breech into the city. "Oh my lord, Sir. You should have seen it. There were more vehicles than I have ever seen in my life. There were tanks, bradleys, humvees and PCs as far as you could see, stretched out across the desert. It was sick."

"Yeah well, I heard that yesterday was a reduced force rehearsal. Only the key leaders were out there with you. That was only 25% of the division task force for the assault."

“Sweet Jesus. This city has no idea what's about to hit it."