You are the company commander of an elite unit and you are part of an elite battalion. You have been in Iraq for eleven months now. You love command and you love your boss. He has charisma and is the best leader you have ever seen. Everybody respects him not only because of his two time BZ selections but because of his "take no prisoners warrior ethos."
Halfway through our deployment, Corps headquarters issued a directive requiring units to forward all detainees to the nearest Detainee Internment Facility (DIF) within 24 hours of the time of detainment. Prior to the directive being issued we could hold detainees for 72 hours.
I was a new sniper-qualified scout serving in an armored battalion on operations in Iraq; I had just pinned on Specialist rank. Another scout and I were paired up and given pretty good missions to provide over-head cover for our company in a pretty dangerous part of western Baghdad.