Gunners in Baghdad
Via Blackfive, who's been or a roll lately, I learned of an independent film maker who spent a few months self-embedded in the artillery battalion in which I was a battery commander 20 years ago. It is 2d Battalion, 3d Field Artillery Regiment, aka the Gunners. The site is called Gunner Palace, named for the unit and for the fact that they are based in one of Uday's old palaces. This is an engrossing story and the online videos are incredible, especially the one of the junior enlisted soldier silhouetted by sundown, electric-guitaring the national anthem while gunships fly overhead. A must see.

by Donald Sensing, 6/4/2004 08:49:54 AM. Permalink |