Attack
On June 16, 2006, Tucker, Menchaca and Babineau were ordered to guard an armoured vehicle-launched bridge over a Euphrates River canal near Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad. This area was within the Triangle of Death, an area of intense conflict. Their mission was to protect the bridge from insurgents. The soldiers were expected to guard this point for up to 36 hours with no barrier to block bridge access or any cover other than a single Humvee and the unmanned bridging vehicle. Other members of their platoon were located at two other locations nearly three-quarters of a mile away. At 7:49 p.m., small arms fire was heard coming from their check point. When a quick reaction force arrived, nearly twenty-five minutes later, Babineau was found dead and the other two soldiers were missing.
Read more about this topic: Thomas Lowell Tucker
Famous quotes containing the word attack:
“When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“One’s condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one’s being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness—the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“And whether it is Thursday, or the day is stormy,
With thunder and rain, or the birds attack each other,
We have rolled into another dream.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)