Milam Byers

So there was a lot of,

a lot of other groups sneaking in over the Syrian border that they were dealing with.

They weren't just dealing with Iraqi like terrorist cells and stuff.

There was a lot of things going on.

And so they were about to move their kind of base of operations to the hottest place in the world, which was Fallujah.

So Josh was leading the convoy where they were going to scout out for the day and basically find out where the unit was gonna take up camp.

So they're traveling a highway, and because IEDs, which is an improvised explosive device, had not really been used much yet, they would later become probably like the biggest part of that war, roadside bombs.

All they had seen up until that point was like,

cheap, trashy, ineffective, like homemade bombs.

So they're traveling and they had just left where they were kind of based outside of Mosul and they're going like 70, 75 miles an hour in a Humvee and IED goes off.

And

I would later find out that the guys that were still back at the base, Jesse, his escort being one of them, they could feel that explosion two miles away.

That's how big it was.

And they had not seen that in that war yet.

So it was new, a new tactic.

And,

Later find out that there was a trigger man that was kind of off the road with a cell phone that triggered the bomb.

We would also learn, because it was written about in a magazine that someone sent us, a well-known publication, that he had a price on his head.

Josh did.

They knew that it was a targeted kill.