RCT-5’s Headquarters Company makes trip to Hades and back

"CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq 2006) --

It was the mission from hell for Hades.

This week Hades Mobile, the security detachment for Headquarters Company, Regimental Combat Team 5, moved heaven and earth to safely escorted a series of Army convoys bearing 201 concrete “ Texas ” barriers from Ramadi to Fallujah. “Texas barriers are the sturdiest stuff you will find out here,” said Sgt. Austin Moore, the assistant convoy commander and a 22-year-old saxophonist in the 1st Marine Division Band from Claxton Texas . “We know we’re going to protect people.”"
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