The Importance of Overhead Cover in Baghdad

Eugene Sledge: "We went out to this base on the outskirts of Baghdad and sure enough, we started getting mortared" He says insurgents knew exactly what they were doing. If you have overhead cover, if you're inside of a strong building that's made of concrete, you're basically safe, he says. But even through one night where we took maybe, I don't know, maybe 10 more rounds in a night, it actually affected the guys a little bitOne night, one night. You could see it actually when we got back to our compound, we had a door on our tactical operations center. That was a old piece of plywood and somebody mounted a spring