At 0530 this morning we got another IDF(indirect fire) alarm but it was a shorter one than usual which left me and my battle in total silence waiting for something to hit before we call it up to higher this time.
So we are waiting and waiting and waiting and wondering if it was just a false alarm, then boom boom! 2 explosions. I jump up and call up to higher that we just had the incoming alarm sound off with 2 detonations following it to our west about 600-700 meters away.
These rocket attacks are starting to wear on me. the whole time i was waiting for the impacts, which in reality was about 1 minute or less, with every passing second my tension level was rising wondering where the impacts were gonna be. Are they gonna land on us or somewhere else? With my rising tension level im also waiting for the impacts to happen so i can either jump outta my skin and react if they are close or unclench my butthole and breath a sigh of relief. Thankfully it was the later.
About 0630 we were listening to the AFN(armed forces network) radio station and one of the DJ's reports that a fellow soldier was killed on 16 JUN 2011 from an IDF attack.
RIP brother
A little while later our relief shows up and as we are doing the change over they let us know that the IDF we had earlier had actually landed 150 meters away from another one of our ECPs.
SGT Beautikoffer and SPC Vanleuven both from my squad were manning that post at the time and were unhurt.
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