On a hot day in March 2005, Army E-4 Specialist John Dorris rode security through the war-torn streets of Baghdad, protecting a convoy whose reverse-osmosis water purification units (ROWPU) and re-supply cargo were always vulnerable to attack.As the lumbering vehicles approached an overpass, they ran headlong into a bottleneck created by insurgents who had blocked an off-ramp with a broken down tractor-trailer. As the convoy slowed, a sudden and fierce assault with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and AK-47s burst out, seemingly from every side.Even as they returned fire, our soldiers mustered the training and discipline to block opposing traffic — clearing
A Soldier's Story: Delivering Water in War and Peace
Army veteran John Dorris once protected water convoys in Iraq — now he's a treatment plant operator near Denver
Apr 10, 2017 | by Melanie K. Goetz |
