What It’s Like To Survive A Deadly Rocket Attack

Military Times: What it’s like to survive a deadly rocket attack and the Iranian missile barrage in Iraq

The lights went out and darkness set in.

“Second rocket, third rocket came I thought 'This is it, we are getting rocketed.” a U.S. source told Military Times, describing the deadly Dec. 27 rocket attack against an Iraqi military base in Kirkuk that killed an American contractor and wounded four U.S. troops.

Nearly 30 rockets would rain down on the Kirkuk base that houses Iraqi troops, American commandos and U.S. contractors. Army Gen. Mark Milley, the Joint Chiefs chairman, would later go on to describe the Iran-sponsored attack as an intent to “kill American soldiers sailors, airmen and Marines…. 31 rockets aren’t designed as a warning shot.”

“When there was that silence after the rockets, the personnel around me got together to run towards the bunkers. That’s when we saw the armory was on fire,” the U.S. source told Military Times, recounting the Kirkuk attack.

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WNU Editor: My father was a soldier in the Soviet army during the Second World War. Because he was studying math in university, he was quickly made an officer who was responsible for directing artillery fire against the enemy. He experienced return fire on numerous occasions, and in his opinion words cannot describe the fear and horror on what it is like to be put in such a situation. I never forget one story that he told me. He was the only survivor from a barrage, and it was from friendly fire. It was a Katyusha rocket attack that wiped out everyone with the exception of him. As he told me. The only thing that you can do when you see a wave of rockets approaching your position is to look for a hole and hope that you will not be ripped to pieces.