Iraq's 'Death Valley' is Hell on Earth (2007)
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- Iraq's Death Valley: This September 2007 report from SBS Dateline follows American soldiers in their attempts to find insurgents in Diyala, and the difficulties they face every day.
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"We're gonna kill the people that need to be killed and be frickin' decent to the rest of them," states Sgt. Maj. Edgar. "There's no in between." The plan is simple. Airborne troops go in at midnight, followed by a heavily armed convoy. But the roads are littered with IEDs and progress is painfully slow. It takes 15 hours to travel 30 km. The soldiers arrive exhausted but there's no time for rest. "We know the insurgents are here." They search every house, checking residents against a blacklist of known insurgents. Then they mark villagers' hands with their house numbers. "He cannot wash it off and needs to stay around this house for the next 24 hours," orders one soldier. "If he goes to a different part of the neighbourhood, I'll arrest him." The 50°C heat is taking its toll on the soldiers. One starts throwing up from heat exhaustion and two others are given a drip of saline solution. "The heat's pretty crazy. Sometimes you just can't drink enough." All the men have had their tours of duty extended by at least three months. They're exhausted and being stretched to their limits.
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SBS Australia - Ref. 3601
my Dad was in C troop with them before he got a 90 day extension and was killed 60 days into it, he had spent a year in the sand & IED outside patrol base got him.. he died in May 07’, he really did do everything he could to give me a good life ❤️ RIP Joe M
❤
Rest easy to your old Man. He’s an American badass hero and I know you’re proud of him. I am sorry for your loss as I can only imagine. Thanks for sharing his story and keeping his name alive👍
@@texasaim776 thank you ❤️
@@wildcat8598 I couldn’t be more proud 🫡❤️ 3,471 to die in Iraq if i’m not mistaken, if you’re interested in it there’s an article that won national awards for journalism that details his life named “The Things that Carried Him” from esquire, and i believe a CNN article. God bless ❤️
Sorry for your loss
I was in Mosul Iraq 06-07. It’s when Saddam was hanged. It was rough. I’m 100% disabled from it. 144 mp company out of michigan. Some of our videos are on CZcams. I was hit by 3 IEDs.
شاركت في اكبر جرائم العصر الحديث ودمرت نفسك من اجل بعض ارباب الاموال اليهود وشركات السلاح هم فقط استخدموك وامثاللك كدمية كان يجب ان تختر لنفسك الجانب الصحيح نلت جزائك العادل كمحتل
Thank you for what you went through
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Blessed your heart ❤🇺🇸 I was in Baghdad Iraq 05-06, 08 and it was pure carnage, a slaughter, ied’s, vbied’s everywhere. As soon as I stepped foot there the unit getting replaced had so many casualties and lost a lot of soldiers due to daily mortar attacks on base, ied’s and vbied’s on patrol and convoys. It was brutal on them. Their faces were unforgivable. You could see the pain and horror on their faces. I spoke with a couple of them and listened how frustrated, angry, traumatized, and sad they are about loosing so many friends. They told me words of advice and warned me of the dangers of camp Striker. I made it out alive twice 🙌🏼🙌🏼Thanks to Jesus ✝️
@vmb4667 what about all the innocent people u killed
7:30 guy definitely says “Como estas bitches” lol
It's all about being a gentleman gotta say hello to these hoes
Heard that lol
epic lad
Legend
I was coming to the comments for that haha. We were crazy over there. I was only 19 when I was in Iraq.
We love you guys dearly. Please know that, especially the vets that are having bad or negative thoughts. Whether you worked in the mail room or were on the tip of the spear. You took the oath.
"Open the fucking gate!" Dont even have to look. You just know those are friendlys lol
U gay?
Intrested u qweear u out here qwearin lolr@@livefromthezetatube1171
@@livefromthezetatube1171ur brown lol
@@SATCHEL-1 u wot?
@@SATCHEL-1brown and gay. 😂😂😂😂😂
I have noticed one thing about the Army guys and that's they do not boast but quietly do their job.
“Show them dignity and respect”
7:30 Random marine: “como estas bitches” lol
Lol.
Thank you all for who have served! You all are badasses and Warriors! Always will back you guys best as possible, all the support!
warriors against what? innocent people who live in the place that US want to exploit
What a waste of people and money all based on lies.
You failed.
Are you new to governments, mate?
@@timglenn579 No, just know that governments waste lives and money for positioning themselves in power plays. Disgusting and evil.
@@mikehawk120 how
@@planetcaravan2925 that was a private comment, if you desire to interject, you need to submit an ID 10 Tango help ticket.
They really fleeced the American people on that one. Rip to all the people who died for corporations and politicians greed.
Read the oded yinon plan. The 32 page pdf is on google.
And George Dubbya will never be held accountable.
Kind of depressing to look back on this. Same type of frustration in Afghanistan as well.
I wish I was part of this army. The army now sucks leadership is trash and selfish everything is political the training sucks the only thing that has improved over the years is the gear everything else has been a complete downgrade and I blame all the stupid college kids who are given commissions like it’s hotcakes
Can confirm it was a good fucking time to be active duty back then
We had plenty of turds that got let in for the surge. This era was when the downfall picked up steam. By 2010 I was out because it was awful
Or lower standards to get in due to poor recruiting numbers.
@@Trucking4lyfe-pr6riyessir it sure was!!!!
The boomers who created this mess will still blame you
Sucha waste of life money and resources. These soldiers didnt fight fir freedom. They fought for the profits and agendas of men in suits.
Damn, damn, damn…The days last forever and the years fly by.
Stop dying for politicians!
We don’t die for them we die for the people next to us and our country we don’t care about the politicians
@@delgleizefam3999yeah but politicians send us into pointless things. I was a Canadian infantry Soldier and fought in Afghanistan several tours. It was all for a literal nothing. The government's in the west, on the left and the right, are completely in bed with each other. They proved it over the planned pandemic
your country? dying for your country in Iraq? It doesn't make sense
@@naski05 uhh yea it does ur just to stupid to know they started it we ended it
I remember getting to whacked in Baquba. It was a dangerous shit hole. Very hostile. Lucky to survive it. The roadside craters were bigger and bigger and more numerous as you drove up the road. Also went from edge of road to craters in top surface. They were obviously learning as they went along. Scrap vehicles by side of road were numerous as well.
...and where did it get us? Thousands of dead, thousands of wounded, trillions of dollars wasted and they're right back to where they were when we got there! (Brown University, Providence, R.I. 8 Trillion dollars, 900 000 deaths, 20 years)
Way to go U.S.
I fully agree with you,however, it's all about keeping people employed in the Industry of death 😅
@@nivenrowe59
I'm all for a strong defense; but not if it means using men and women as cannon fodders. And most of our wars have been just that. The Military Industrial Complex; according to the latest reliable sources it is they that run our nation! And have been since Eisenhower. So, I think we're in for the long haul.
I agree but you can’t really blame us vets. We weren’t the ones that started or asked for the war. We were lied to just like the rest of the public.
@@user-rq3sw8sj5n
I never said it was the vets fault! My only hope is that the present generation have learned from it.
Our government needs to change. The way things are looking it won’t change anytime soon. I gotta feeling the current leaders and president are gonna drag us further into the Ukraine war especially since things aren’t going the way they thought. I wouldn’t be surprised if they eventually send American boots on the ground there. I know the are already talking about sending a patriot missle battalion, a battalion to train the Ukrainians in Ukraine and a battalion to help guard the embassy and those troops. Al these politicians need to look at war as a very last resort and only to do necessary in situations like WW2 or 9/11. All this nation building crap that we hv been doing needs to end. Our government needs to worry about fixing our problems here like our drug epidemic, the homeless problem, and the crime problem instead of being the world police.
I was at Warhorse many times. And a smaller FOB Gabe nearby in 2005
Did you take out many rag heads?
25th ID got attached to 1-12 Cav in 07
I was there 2003-04 when we were just a few Hummvees set up in a perimeter that was the start of FOB Warhorse. Shortly after leaving BIAP.
Cop Cobra up the road in Jalula 2008 here - warhorse was the only PX we ever got to see
@@Trucking4lyfe-pr6ri I definitely remember Gabe. Cobra is escaping me but I'm old now! We were mostly in between COP XRay and COP Adam
Holy shit!! This was the division I fell under when I was with the 82nd south of Sahdr city, Doura Market, and Abu Rashid triangle.
What was it like? I'm gonna join the Marines next year after I graduate
@maggot.4348 Back in early 2000s awesome, now probably super lame, weak and woke in all honesty man.
@StandorFall13 Oh, does the Marines do k-9? I wanna be around dogs, and after service, I wanna become a vet, so if I do k-9, I'll have at least a bit of experience with dogs
@maggot.4348 I was in the Army not the Marines, but I belive the Four Main branches have K9 handlers. Marines being part of the Navy so I belive they do.
@maggot.4348 Try to get an MOS(Job) toward that. Base security, MP, etc.
Honestly how things are right now you might just get needs of the Marine Core
I am still trying to figure out how the Army landed on that horrible “Universal camouflage pattern”
Money, a WHOLE lot of money.
It actually worked very well in Iraq. As well as mountains in Afghanistan, snowy Arctic, Rocky desert and Rocky forest. It was a big change from the traditional m81 woodland pattern, so there's divisions amongst new privates who signed up for the futuristic ucp camo look and old grunts who loved woodland camo, which it ended up being the trend for people to just hate on ucp camo(although it does kinda look bright when brand new). this camo is really underrated.
When they switched to the current camouflage pattern, it was admitted that the ACUs hadn't been field tested.
@@gamehengeful Acu was field tested in iraq 04, But wasn't field tested as in Nevada or somewhere. The field test was successful and got good feedback. You were misinformed
@@eaglet6703 Better to use tan ACU uniforms in the desert than green ones, im talking about BDUs and OCPs. Like you kinda said, as long as the ACUs were fracky or frackie and not brand new they were pretty good camo. The most hated U.S. Army uniform (ACU) is my favorite uniform.
It should be well understood that us soldiers were sometimes kidnapped, murdered and filled with IEDs and just like the narrator said, you cant continue a mission without detonating the IED. Its happened more than once
Reporter: "What did Iraq have to do with 911?"
dubya Bush: "Nothing."
I was all based on a lie... from "that fateful day" until the bs withdrawal from Afg. This hasn't been America for quite some time...
Wth u talking about
They were harbouring al quida and Talaban and Sadam Hussein was frickin terrorist himself gassing his own people that's why we were in Iraq. Don't say it was a waste because my brother was there and my cousin's were there.
Tell me you never served without actually telling me🙄🖕
@@NevadaBuckaroo '82 - '88 11Bravo. E-5 upon honorable discharge. Wanna see my DD-214?
There is no evidence that Iraq has a relationship with Al-Qaeda because the regime in Iraq is secular and there are very large ideological differences between Al-Qaeda and the regime in Iraq at that time.@@michaelrollins806
Dont let the insurgents find out where to buy watermarkers
Seems like a lifetime ago. Feels like it never happened. Still feels surreal.
Thank you for your service
Btrp 6/9 CAV FOB Normandy 2006-2008 also spent time patrolling out of the Diyala Media Center.
Where was FOB Normandy? I was at Warhorse and Paliwoda, 3/8 Cav.
@@bodieburtt31 it was right outside of Muqdadiah. Was an AI base that we shared.
@@bodieburtt31 between your unit and ours, we accounted for a lot of the names on the 1st Cav memorial between 06-08.
@@RedbeardRunner right on, i will never forget Baqubah and the Surge. Hardcore. Glad we made it brother. Lost a good friend in Muqdadiah, he was doing route clearance got hit by an EFP. Purple Hearts and PTSD 4 life.
@@bodieburtt31and Americans at home were never in any danger from anyone in Iraq
1:51 with the soundtrack to gladiator…
I was at warhorse in 2007 1Cav 3rd brigade that wall at the beginning isnt even half of what we lost by the time we left. If i had to guess looking at the amount of names and some that i saw were missing this was recorded 6 to 8 months into what was a 15 month tour
thank you for your service man, that shit had to be fucking hot n sandy as hell, hope you’re doing alright these days
@RobDaDon_ it was rough but I survived thank you I'm doing OK these days like everyone else I'm just trying to make every day count
Because of the surge, about 28,000 American troops were recalled in 2007, some from the IRR, and others from retirement. I was one of those. At the time, I hadn't seen active duty for 13 years, so it was like being a recruit again. A lot had changed such as the terminology, not to mention my MOS, 73C. Many of us were overweight, out of shape, and had to be retrained by drill sergeants for four weeks at Ft. Jackson. It was quite an interesting experience.
Air borne division grounded as hell
Holy shit!!!! We were there 2003-04 at the Diyala Police Station. Our relief got attacked the day after we left!!!!
I was going to ask the same thing bro..
have we been forgotten?
As a linguist we went through the same thing as US soldiers but never heard someone tell me thank for your service lol.
MAY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST PROTECT US ❤
Amen 🙏🏼
I got in country in July and was back there sweeping cashes in September
Write a number on their hands and asked them not to wash it off for 3 days ? Okkkkk
they wipe their asses with their bare hands... hygiene isn't a muslim's strong suit... so they won't be washing their hands anytime soon
If the cameras weren't present, I am wondering if his speech wouldn't be the same.
150 thousands can’t control just half of country
This is the year I enlisted. Went to iraq in 10 when we were pulling out. It was very calm that year
This is why we’ll always be in wars and struggles…we’re too worried about treating people fairly…there is no fair in war
"treating people fairly" 🤣you know nothing about how the US really treat people. and you'll always be in wars because you always start them.
What?? I mean they were never treated fairly..
You’re perfect material for being a pawn. yall are the same ones who cry on those soldier commercials asking for help to buy a fake leg bahaha😂
Poppas was my division commander when I was in the 101st.
What for ??????? ???????
Humility for women and civilians...never forget.
I guess the CSM didn’t get the movie deal he was hoping for by showboating like he has an important role in operations.
CSM in any unit is very important. The enlisted will listen and obey a CSM before the Commander
Who?
Bro I was laughing imagining whatever other shit he was saying that didn't make it to the final cut.
@victordcabral he's talking about the briefing and how CSM was trying to sound super important there.
I was at Fob Rustamiyah, Fob Hammer and COP Sallie 07-08. I’m 100% T&P from those experiences. I’ll probably also end up with lung cancer from the brick factories and disgusting tannery in that area.
50 celsius and all that gear on them damn.. i dont know how they manage that without collapsing.
At the 7:30 mark "como estas bitches" 😂😂😂
All these solders dead for nothing! What did we Win? Nothing.! Why were we ever even there ? Can anyone tell me what are soldiers died for?
Nothing
it's a crying shame the people that lost there lives there for what, when was the last war you won again,
why would you ask him how many people he's lost to an IED?
Because he's a reporter and asking questions is what they do.
I know I felt the pain on that one
@@brunkfunk340 bro had the audacity to tell me he's a reporter lol. Obviously not seeing the real reason
I know man it was a really cool response I chose to ignore. We get he’s a reporter but did you have to make him relive those horrific moments again while driving through a potential IED area!?
@@brunkfunk340 The soldier wants the American public to know
What a lovely piece of propaganda.
These goofball officers are now Generals.
lmao
some in the White House
No kidding. Poppas was the 101st CG at campbell 2017-2018. Every speech he gave was just as bullshit and filled with hot air as the one in the video.
R.I.P to our fallen brothers. Thank you to those of you still with us.
Happy Easter
I was a pog, got out and my transition was hard. I want to know how the fuck these guys did it, because they get out the same as any other soldier…. They don’t get more money or more resources.
Amazing - can anyone tell me why the American soldier at 11:10 is wearing tan instead of UCP like the other soldiers? I've never seen this before, genuinely curious!
I did 3 tours in Iraq. What he's wearing is a nomex flight suit. It's a one piece suit that's fire proof. Some units authorized soldiers to wear these on missions. You could be less burned by an explosion. Because they don't melt to your skin. Also standard issued gloves were nomex. The nomex suit is also more comfortable to wear under body armor.
@@WearevotingTRUMP thanks for your service boss 👍🏼
Bring our sons to there land. Protect our nation. It’s why we tell them to sign on the line. Let us decide when we have to send them away. Not the latter
The toughest vehicle ever made, an orange and white Iraqi taxi. No matter what make or model haha
So who really the bad guys bcuz now we’re all confused
My question was, why be in Iraq? We have or had no fuqqing business being there.
Because W.M.D's man..the CIA had good intel there were weapons of mass destruction there,,wonder what ever came of that lol
Maybe for freedom
@@user-Xoxoopefreedom??????????????? For whom?
Free Oil and no limbs
العراق 💪
all that killing for there recources. so sad we do this to each other .
Thank You so much for all the hard work you’re doing overseas serving our great country 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
8:32 imagine someone from a foreign country whom is a soldier for said country comes to your house and asks you “why do you have a weapon/gun(s) here?” 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
It's a shame. No one will ever actually know. Not your family, not the friends you thought you had. Your a changed man now, and no one will ever understand. They all stayed the same, you changed brother and so did I. We are now alone, haunted by memories our you can never articulate properly. I tried, God knows i tried. I'm still here but I don't do social media, maybe we'll meet up on the other side. To the fuckin top
Ruck sacks are heavy... vet of the gulf war.
Camp Stryker iraq 2005-2006 route clearance with 648th engineers 48th brigade back again in 2008-2009
No. Hell on earth is when I come home drunk on a weeknight. She has no mercy. 😢
Good times. Wished we had more relaxed ROE.
I have been all over Iraq so crazy
Same here- 2 tours and a shitload of cities and towns
I'm curious what the atmosphere was like at that time?
@@user-Xoxoope هو حار ترى سواء قبل او هسة نفس الشي
Also RIP to those who did nothing but go to work on a Tuesday morning. In turn getting us sent to these damn places.
damn those dudes are all sunburnt to hell
We still had good fighting young men in the 2000 era in the USA, guys who were proud to fight and who were not afraid to step up. I honestly do not think the current young men of the 2020's have the strength or mentality to do what these men did. Not saying all, speaking generally. The average American man 18-24yr old back from 1990-2012 or so was able to if required. Its scary how weak people have become in such a short time.
Unfortunately, most people wouldn't sign up anymore because of the lost trust.
Depends. Mostly people don't want to join today because no one wants to die or see their friends die in a pointless war, which is what Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam have all been.
If there was another war like WW2, people would sign up
@@burnssy112 I understand what you mean, but you have to admit this generation doesnt have it, they are totally lost and cant seem to grasp life like everyone before them. I WANT them to succeed and be great, please dont misunderstand me, I care about them. They are just wimps.
2020 Kids are not this tough. They could not do this job.
😂 com es estas bitches haha......
what is the difference? I guarantee if you still give the american people a WORTHWHILE cause to fight for we will fight for it. We are growing increasingly done and tired with whats going on inside borders thats all, we will not fight for a government thats fighting ALL OF US.
It’ is was totally Rong Decision of U S
It was a WRONG decision to skip English class.
Dudes allowed to have one rifle or pistol etc for his home. Errbody has em over there
pretty im,pressed the SgtMGR was there... we might have crossed paths sir.. albeit Sgt worked guard gat at arecent,,, Deseret storm over
I was at Warhorse in 07 and I remember Col Poppas!!
That’s general Poppas crazy I just randomly see him in this video 🦅
After all the money training and American deaths. We seen what happend at Iraq. And Afghanistan. Whaaaaaaaaaat. The hell did we do there
Surge fail !!!!
Oh there’s our sons and daughters. Protecting us. Far far far away. From scary monsters under our bed. Ok.
There was nothing in Iraq even your former murderer president bush knows
Yeah everyone knows terrorists aren't in Iraq 🙄
I think this is the operation that lead up to operation turkey bowl, LTC Poppas let us run loose for a few days.....❤goodtimes❤
Goddamn our government for even being involved in Iraq either time we sent our forces there.
😢 The sad thing is while our soldiers are over there struggling the elites in America are enjoying ice cream and private jets!
Lts carbine was pointed at his terp the whole time hes talking. lmao
Peripheral nervous system concerns due to pituitary failures (paradoxical)
All these people saying we should have been there, it was for oil....a coward always has an excuse, remember that. Saddam and his regime inficted hell on the people of Iraq. And it was the right thing to do for those people and our allys in the region. This is the period of the surge. A 12-month deployment turned to 15-month deployment. And by this time in the war, some soldiers had already 3 or 4 deployments, then got stop-loss, where the government won't let you out at the end of your contract. Why, because less than 1% of Americans serve the country in all the military branches and less around 1% of that is infantry. What ticks off most veterans is the lack of appreciation. Kneeling for the flag at major events, what the Kardashians are doing, or who's dating justin bieber. As a veteran, i will NEVER encourage my children to serve in such a way.
Fighting wars for politicians and for the military industrial complex. waste of lives, money and time
Poppas : a company man !
well the americans and other soldiers shouldnt have been in their country in the first place
Document of a army literally going to the wrong county for war Jesus f Christ smh
Are they still in Iraq?
Nope
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I was in Balad from 06-08 with the 3/8 Cav but was sent to 2/7 when i got back, which a lot of these guys are.
This seemed incomplete.
The Lt Col with the weak inspirational speech checking the box on his way to full bird, the Sgt Maj with the high and tight and no combat experience "motivating" the NCO...who half assed get up and salute the man... The US Army circa 2007 was embarrassing.
Not much has changed...
He is a four star now
Captain caveman and flintstones .
0:13 song?
Sandstorm-Darude
@@kledus420smith8 20 year old joke
Man, fuck -- and I cannot say this enough, fuck COL Southerland. 1st Cav came in unprepared, ignored the advice from units who had been on the ground doing recon and collecting intel for months. His troops, although some were very experienced and tough, largely undisciplined. His failures to prepare, train, listen, and plan based on existing intel got a LOT of his troops killed, and a lot of ours as well. His reaction to the shock of sudden casualties was not to get out and get aggressive in pursuing the enemy and keeping them on their feet, instead he retreated all units but a few combat outposts to FOB Warhorse and de facto gave up the battlespace. And while those units pulled back and gave AQ free reign throughout Baqubah, us attached units from other brigades took over more and more 1st Cav AO until our own AO was 3x the size it should have been.
I can forgive a lot of things, but I cannot forgive negligence.
What a well spoken popus.
Arabs are proud people. If i see, like the american soldier (9.00 min) take place on the couch without invitation, ordered the owner of the house to sit down in front of a camera or his family, nobody had to wonder about so much resistance. The man is loosing his face. If the soldiers had more education about the arabic culture, their job where more easy and the deathtoll on both sides where so much lower. But the inventors of the lie about iraqi chemical weapons had no interest in the people in the land or their own soldiers, they send them half around the globe to secure the oil and gas for western companies and private profit. Some americans die and some get more rich, the classical division of work.
You been there?
Im from diayla 😊😊😊