You get one chance to drop your guard and then you pay the price of being dead or wounded. Capt Sean Sims and two Army soldiers walked "casually" nto an "apparently abandoned house...and was confronted with a room full of armed men" In the hail of fire the two soldiers retreated but the body of Capt. Sims lay on the kitchen floor. ' "Staff Sgt. Colin Fitts, a combat-hardened NCO, called his men together.
"The CO is dead," he rasped, "and I'll tell you why. They were just a gaggle walking into some house. They weren't clearing the building properly before going in.
"We were doing that, and that's why we're living. Do not let your guard down here, or you'll be the next one dead." '
'The CO is dead,' troops are told - The Washington Times: World - November 15, 2004
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