April 18, 2004
Mortar in the Pool
Stuart writes:
Here's a mortar that landed in the pool. It's an 82mm high explosive. Last picture is the one that hit next to the pool and blew out all of the windows in the TOC. For all of you that don't know what the TOC is, look in Time Magazine at the picture of all the officers standing around the map trying to look important. The windows behind the guy standing up are all gone. It was really cool to see them get blown out.
Explosive ordinance disposal doesn't know what to do with the mortar. If they blow it up in the pool it will collapse the bottom of the floor and wreck the central water pumps for the compound. The thing could go off at the slightest bump. It's not a dud, when it hit the water it lost it's momentum and sank to the bottom.
One of the Iraqis here wants to jump in and take it out, I say let him. If we do it that way we'd just have him run down to the river and throw it in there.
So much for sunbathing.
