sgtdub

17 January 2007, The Day After.
Well, today is a better day to tell you about yesterday. At around 9 am a subject attempted to drive a VBIED (vehicle-borne improvised explosive device) into our camp and blow it up. Due to safety measures in place, good training by all personnel at the front gate, and good luck, he was unable to detonate the bomb prior to being restricted, removed and secured. We are thankful and grateful that those involved were able to prevent this action. I was in the area at the time that this occurred and was able to get to safety. With the subject now secured, we had to deal with the vehicle in the gate area. This required EOD to come and attempt to identify and remove the threat. After a couple of hours I found myself outside the wire with EOD when the vehicle detonated. I do listen to the little voices in my head, and when there appeared to be a small chance an explosion would occur based on the actions by EOD, I took cover inside one of their vehicles. This was a good decision because we became that small chance. The explosion was large enough to blow out windows in buildings up to 200 meters away.
I know, a lame excuse for not posting yesterday and missing ab lab, but I use what I have. Today was spent working on yesterday's events and attempting to get things back to normal as quickly as possible. No one on post was injured during the events and only minor injuries to local Afghans occurred due to flying glass. We responded quickly to those and assisted them.
Well, just got a phone call and it's back to the grind stone. Be safe and have a good day.