After midnight

Major E. reported today from Camp Victory in Baghdad with “thoughts after a midnight tank patrol.” Major E. writes:

A recent midnight tank patrol near Sadr City met my definition of a good patrol: enough excitement to make it interesting and easy to stay awake but not so much that I could not sleep after the shift.
The unit at a checkpoint several hundred yards down the road took small arms fire and then returned the favor

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