Specialist Patrick Bledsoe heard an explosion echoing through the distance, and he was afraid. This was two days after the cease-fire, so probably the explosion was the sound of soldiers blowing up another dead Iraqi tank somewhere nearby. Still, Bledsoe went off to sit in the desert by himself for awhile, and when he came back, no one asked him; why he'd gone. They didn't have to. "A certain part of you just dies," said ILT Keith Garwick. "Somebody trying to kill you so desperately, for so many hours, and coming so close. We just couldn't understand it. I still don't understand it. Those guys were insane. They wouldn't stop," Garwick said of the Iraqi Army's Republican Guard, which hurtled wave after wave of tanks at him. Ghost Troop's gunners would blow up the oncoming vehicles, only to watch the enemy soldiers jump out and start firing automatic rifles uselessly at the American armored vehicles. "They kept dying and dying and dying," said 25-year-old Garwick, a West Point graduate and cavalry platoon leader from Fresno, Calif. "They never quit... they never quit."
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机译：专家Patrick Bredsoe听到了爆炸在远处回荡，他害怕。这是停火后两天，所以爆炸可能是士兵的声音吹掉了另一个死者附近的伊拉克坦克。尽管如此，Bledsoe还坐在沙漠中一段时间，当他回来时，没有人问他;为什么他会走了。他们没有必要。 “你的某部分只是死亡，”Ilt Keith Garwick说。 “有人试图如此拼命地杀死你，这么多小时，而且这么近。我们无法理解它。我仍然不明白。那些家伙很疯狂。他们不会停止，”Garwick说伊拉克军队的共和党守卫，在他的坦克浪潮后受伤了波浪。 Ghost Troop的枪手将炸毁迎面而来的车辆，只观看敌人士兵跳出，并在美国装甲车辆中无可用地开始射击自动步枪。 “他们一直濒临死亡和死亡，”弗雷斯诺·弗雷斯诺的西点毕业生和骑兵排骑兵队长，“他们从不辞职......他们从不戒烟。”
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