China Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Afghanistan Firefight Heard On Voice Mail OTIS, Ore. -- An Oregon couple received a frightening phone call from their son in Afghanistan when he inadvertently called home during battle. Stephen Phillips and other soldiers in his Army MP company were battling insurgents when his phone was pressed against his Humvee. It redialed and called his parents in the small Oregon town of Otis. Sandie Petee, Phillips' mother, and her husband, Jeff Petee, weren't home at the time of the call. They returned home to find a three-minute voice mail on their answering machine. "His friend died a year ago in Iraq and I'm thinking, 'Oh my God, this may be the last time I hear my son's voice on the phone,'" Petee said. They heard shooting, swearing and shouted pleas for more ammunition on the phone call from their son. "They were pinned down and apparently his barrel was overheating," said Jeff Petee. "It's something a parent really doesn't want to hear. It's a heck of a message to get from your son in Afghanistan." The three-minute call ended abruptly. "You could hear him saying stuff like, he needs more ammo, or he needs another barrel," said John Petee, Phillips' brother. "At the end, you could hear a guy saying 'Incoming! RPG!' And then it cut off." Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjTj Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Can you hear me now? Cool story ... I wonder what his phone bill will look like for that call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfitzo53 Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Wow, what a way to end the message. Glad his parents know the truth know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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