As Sergeant Keith E. Fiscus walked up and greeted me by my call sign, he said, “Hey Pickle, I want to go to Baghdad to help my corporal with his promotion board to sergeant, do you mind if we switch shifts?”
That was one of the last conversations I had with Keith.
Shortly after trading shifts and a mission I was destined to take, his Humvee— was struck by a large, deeply buried improvised explosive device (IED). The explosion was so powerful it launched the Humvee into the air throwing it 50 feet from the blast site.
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