DEFENSEWATCH: WHO BANNED THE U.S. FLAG IN KIRKUT?

Monday, February 23, 2004

WHO BANNED THE U.S. FLAG IN KIRKUT?

At 3 a.m. on June 28, 2003, a rocket-propelled grenade crashed through a window of the Kirkuk barracks at Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, where three members of the mortar platoon slept: 30-year-old Spc. John Perkins, 19-year-old Pfc. Brian McJunkin, and 24-year-old Spc. Aaron Blakely. When the smoke cleared and the three could hear above the ringing in their ears, Perkins and McJunkin had taken some shrapnel, but Blakely’s legs were... Sign in to see full entry.

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