#DesertStorm30 15k into Iraq. Battlefield thickens & Tanks moved to the front of the TF. My six M3 r now screening the W flank of @1stCav2bct, moving and echeloned in 3 sects of two. Boom!! Massive explosion, smoke and fire 350m to my E. M1A1 from D Co has hit an AT mine 1/5 
“Holy shit” The front left #1 skirt is blown apart and the comp idler arm is blown off the hull to the desert floor. 4 mins..I hear the D XO on TF Cmd “Delta One Three is a mobility kill. Driver and TC both WIA but OK. Estimate 6-8 hours till back up”. 2/5
LTC M replies “Roger, self recover and leave for Wolfpack. Copy, Wolfpack Six?” “Wilco” says the HHC Cdr. I’ve halted, TOW up to provide security and I look over and see the crazy ass tankers on the ground looking at the damage. I flip my intercom and talk to my crew 3/5
“SGT V, you want believe this but these tankers are walking around in a mine field to look at the damage”. “DATs” he says back (Dumb Ass Tankers). The TF is bypassing the mine field but I witness a selfless act of courage by SFC B, the maint team chief for D Co. 4/5
He guides his 88 to the edge of the minefield, and now under direct & indirect, he drags the massive winch cable, on foot, amongst the mines...75m to hook up to crippled D13. He earns an ARCOM w V and then is chaptered out of the Army a year later for being gay. 100% true.
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