Very high conflict area. Yeah, when we first got there, it wasn't so bad. So we. January, February, March were pretty mellow. We did the election late January 1st. That first Iraqi election, January of 05. somebody shot an RPG at us, but, like, it didn't go off. And then on April 2, 2005, there was a large combined assault, multiple suicide car bombs, an immense amount of indirect fire, rockets, mortars, the whole nine yards. (30:26–30:32)
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