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We treated the vanquished men with respect at every encounter, gave them food and water
and told them to march south…and damn sure be waving those white flags aggressively.

Captain Rock Pollard and two other LAV-25s from 2nd Platoon were
dismounting scouts and had weapons drawn on the first group of enemy
prisoners. Vehicle Commanders in the turrets were manning the 7.62 pintle
mount machine guns. The scouts were spreading the enemy prisoners out
and telling them to get on the ground face down. One of the Kuwaiti
interpreters was present and asking questions, interrogating several of the
prisoners…obviously the officers of the now in custody troops.

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GySgt Steven Dell said, “Let’s go over there, Witch….I want to be
over there with the Skipper. Let’s try to find out what’s being said. Let’s see if
these prisoners know something we need to know.” And with that, I hit the
gas. We pulled up about 25 yards from the Captain. I put the vehicle in park,
grabbed my M16A2 and I knew that Gunny had his Beretta 9mm pistol.
Together we jumped from the vehicle and ran over to listen to the
conversation between the interpreter and the detainees. The prisoners were
talking wildly and more than one at a time. Finally, the Kuwaiti
interpreter/officer that was working with us told them all to be quiet and
speak only one at a time, and only when spoken to. His questions in Arabic
were being answered in of course a language that we could not