The right wrong decision...

"OK, well this is my experience with apparently making the "wrong" decision that I felt and still feel was the right decision. Let me explain...

Earlier today before we went out on patrol, just prior to the time that we were going to start getting the trucks ready and everything to roll out, I decided to step out and have a smoke. My buddy joined me along with the other team leader from my new squad. We were just chilling and smoking and chatting like usual when we hear "Thud, thud, thud" quietly off in the distance. I remeber it catching my attention but no for more than a split second and we continued back into our conversation. Just then we hear a loud explosion. I remember thinking that it sounded close. Theres so many IEDs that go off in the area and mortars we get hit with, not to mention the sound of our own outgoing fire, that its sometimes hard to tell which it is. But it didnt sound "normal" if you will."
On the Loose in Iraq