Chark

This week there has been action in the bowl to the south of Shank called Chark.  There is a US outpost there and they have started to patrol the city area on foot.  A few days ago one of our day AWTs was flying in support of the ground element, when the ground guys started taking fire.  The AH-64's followed some of the "bad guys" across the river to a urban area where they thought they had refuge.  As the AH-64's circled, the bad guys on the ground still had possession of their weapons and seemed to move tactically looking at the helicopters as if they were trying to get in a position to fire.  The AH-64's got clearance to  fire at the group of insurgents and launched a F/A Hellfire (Blast Fragmentation) missile and put it right between two structures where the bad guys were. The end result was 4 enemy killed and 2 wounded.  Hopefully that will be a lesson to those guys that we can find, follow, and engage them, even when they think they are protected by the urban area.