As I’ve written before, I was deployed as a JAG officer (an Army lawyer) with the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment in Diyala Province, Iraq.
Diyala was in the midst of a wave of suicide bombings, many of them carried out by women, that was brutal beyond words.
As the unit JAG officer, I was asked to review the request to send elements of a cavalry troop to invade the building and search it room by room.
The entire search was anticlimactic and barely memorable compared to countless other incidents during my deployment.
Except for the fact that we were bristling with weapons, it was all quite quiet and calm.
Persons:
I’ve, weren’t, —
Organizations:
JAG, Army, Third Armored Cavalry
Locations:
Diyala Province, Iraq, Diyala