 Distance about 400 meters offset from us that second compound is the one that the snipers are saying they were shooting Okay, we went on as a basically a security patrol Basically when we got out there though we looked for a good position to set up in and as we were moving to find a position That we wanted to set up in we end up getting hit by an improvised explosive device Following hitting the improvised suppose device we end up dismounting do normal sweeps for for possible secondaries The vehicles were moved forward a little bit of where the actual IED was we started taking small arms fire and Sniper fire from our east and southeast sides We end up having another patrol come down south from us they started sweeping from the south to the southeast side of us Clearing all the other compounds as we were holding the cordon off on the IED Once you do finally got out there is already past dark We had to switch to our to our thermals and not using the night vision goggles and everything just to make sure that we were Still maintain that good security on our vehicles in the cordon as they As you do got in everything they end up checking out the IED spot Find out it was only a partial blast and that it was a end up being an 80 pound explosive And maybe only 15 pounds that end up exploding They end up detonating what was left of it and at that point we We linked up with the quick reaction force and up making a way back to camp other night