Posted: 3/3/2010 1:06:40 PM EDT
| My son is deployed and apparently it was his unit that got hit yesterday with the three wounded, someplace between Falcon and Dorr. Any place to find a decent map of Iraq with the locations of the FOBs on it? |
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A listing but no map at Global Security http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/iraq.htm ETA: Damn, faster and more accurate. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/iraq.htm http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/iraq-maps.htm Thanks Chokey, you too Scary. 
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Quoted: Generally...Quoted: Quoted: FOB Falcon and Doura...he's probably patrolling near the neighborhoods I was in... What are you hoping to find out? Haven't heard from him in a while. It would just be comforting to know where he is. No news is good news. If something happened to him, you'd know by now most likely. If something happened to someone in his unit, they'd be on black out and he can't call anyway... http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/images/baghdad_sectors.jpg That map will show you generally where he is. Fob Falcon's in section 40, Al Dora (Doura, Douhra) is section 25 (Al Hamadi, Dawrah), section 41 is Sadiya...generally bad area. :) Unit that took over for us in Doura was patrolling it with a Company...we had a reinforced Battalion there (Light Infantry...they brought over some Strykers for a while to help out during the "Surge") |
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We already got a call from the family care group that confirmed it wast'n him involved. Just the information that it was his unit. It looks like it was not too far away. Yes I know that the family would be the first to know hence the communications black out. If it's you you would generally find out before you even knew there was a commo blackout. My platoon was blacked out for over a week when word finally got to us that the blackout was lifted 6 days before hand 
When we first got there all COPs were blacked out for casualties in the battalion...then when they realized that would mean that there would be a blackout all deployment long they changed this policy to company casualties only (our companies were all living seperately). 9/10 when we were blacked out we didn't even know the names because they don't say them on the radio (usually).....nothing like not knowing if it was your friend in the next platoon over that you trained with for over a year and hung out with nearly every day that got hit....then you find out 2 weeks after it happened that he died 2 miles from you but due to radio procedures you didn't even know 
Anyways 90% of commo blackouts (we called them NIPR bans) are there while word slowly filters back down the change that the family has been informed. |