All Lt. Col. Tim Halbur remembers is waking up to smoke surrounding him after the March 1 attack in Kuwait that killed six soldiers and injured nine more.
Halbur, 44, of Ankeny, was one of four Iowans injured in the Iranian drone attack at the Shuaiba Port, just one day after the Iran war began.
“When I woke up, it was just so dark — all the smoke and the soot and everything,” Halbur said in a phone interview with the Des Moines Register. He spoke to the Register on Tuesday, April 21, from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he is being treated…