DEBKA comments on the "sudden appearance" of the 101st Airborne not far from Baghdad. This is the division that suffered a grenade attack from one of its own soldiers in Camp Pennsylvania. Glad to see they've made it to the battlefield. Here's hoping they raise a lot of hell, and that we have more surprises coming.
The most significant development of Day Seven of the war was the sudden appearance of the US 101st Airborne Division west of Karbala, at the forefront of coalition lines on the road to Baghdad. This elite unit, which commands a fleet of 300 helicopters gunships with enormous firepower, departed Kuwait secretly on March 21, moved quietly along the Iraqi-Saudi frontier with hardly any resistance and turned up Wednesday west of Karbala. Fighting under its motto “Rendezvous with Destiny”, the 101st has been given the task of opening and securing the western Baghdad battlefront.
Posted by Alan at March 27, 2003 10:31 PM