Route Clearance and Counterbattery in Iraq

The Spear by John Amble

Jan 16, 202600:55:35News & Politics

JJ Pinter graduated from West Point and was commissioned as a field artillery officer. A few short years after 9/11, JJ found himself in Iraq, leading route clearance missions and performing counterbattery fire against p...

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