A Strange day...

This morning, a dude with an RPG shot at our Bradleys (Bradley Fighting Vehicle- basically an Armored personnel carrier with a big gun) while our platoon was dismounted a good distance from them. We heard the explosion and started running toward the sound of the explosion. When we arrived, we found out a MAM (military age male) fired an RPG and completely missed the Bradely, droped the launcher, and him and his buddy made a run for it on their Moped or motor scooter. In the panic to get away, they crashed the scooter, could not get it to start again, and took off on foot. We tried to catch them, but they were long gone by the time we arrived on the scene. After questioning the locals and gathering descriptions of the perpetrators, we got the "ok" to run over the discarded Moped with our Bradely as a show of force and so it would not be used again (I have video). Once that fiasco was over, we gave high fives to eachother.

Also, we went out on QRF (quick reaction force) today in response to gunfire supposedly comming from a local school. We arrived at the scene, running toward the school, and began the systematic clearing of the entire building. We were moving fast and the adrenaline was pumping, we went from room to room, knocking down doors, clearing the building... only to find out we were at the wrong school...

Then we ran out of the school, and went to the school a block away, and did the same thing with the same intensity, doing everything with violent precision, every man knew his job... but it was the wrong school...

Turns out most of the gunfire came from the National Police, possibly shooting at eachtother because they were so disorganized. Apparently the incident started off with a personal dispute between a local leader and an off duty NP... strange... I do not want to say that the national police are incompetent, but they do need better lower level leadership. They definitely put forth the effort when necessary, but they still have a way to go.