Nearly two decades before the latest war with Iran, an explosively formed penetrator tore through a U.S.Army vehicle on a Baghdad road, killing Staff Sgt.
William Brooks and leaving Sgt.(Ret.) Robert Bartlett with injuries so severe that he says he "died three times."The weapon was part of a broader Iranian campaign that armed and trained proxy forces to target American troops in Iraq, according to federal court findings.
In cases involving hundreds of U.S.victims, judges found that Iran manufactured or supplied the weapons used in the attacks and that the assailants were trained or directed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps."It cut me in half from my temple down through my jaw, and then took my gunner’s legs off, and then took the top of my truck commander’s head off," Bartlett told Fox News Digital.
"I would end up dying three times and spent four years at the old Walter Reed receiving surgeries, reconstruction and rebuilding."ARMY IDS 2 VICTIMS KILLED IN JORDAN AIR BASE ATTACK; TRUMP: IRAN WILL PAY 'MANY TIMES OVER'The vehicle driven by Sgt.(Ret.) Robert Bartlett after it was struck by an explosive device on Route Pluto in Baghdad on May 3, 2005.
Staff Sgt.William Brooks was killed, while Bartlett and two other soldiers were wounded.
(Fox News)Bartlett was driving an armored Humvee on Route Pluto in Baghdad, May 3, 2005, when an explosively formed penetrator tore through the vehicle.Staff Sgt.
William Brooks was killed, while Bartlett and two other soldiers were wounded.Bartlett suffered massive facial trauma.The Army casualty report described Bartlett as "very seriously injured," with massive facial and dental trauma.
He was the vehicle’s driver during the route-security mission when an explosive detonated from its right side.Bartlett said the weapon was an Iranian-supplied explosively formed penetrator linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ campaign to arm militias attacking American forces in Iraq."When you’re blown up, you do...