Fatigue, a mistake in directions, and weapons that may not have been cleaned properly are all cited in the U.S. Army inquiry into the attack on the 507th Maintenance Company from Ft. Bliss. The 15 page report has not officially been released, but family members have provided copies of the report to the media.

The report does not blame anyone for the ambush that left 11 dead, including nine members of the 507th. Six members of the 507th were taken prisoner, and five others were wounded in the March 23rd attack in An Nasiriyah, Iraq.

The report indicates Captain Troy Kent King misunderstood the convoy's assigned route, and when he asked for directions he was at a checkpoint that was not fully operational. The confusion ended up with 31 soldiers of the 507th and two soldiers from the Army's Third Infantry division going into Nasiriyah. Many of them were exhausted - one of those soldiers previously telling KFOX that he had not slept in the three days since the war started.

As KFOX has reported in the past, Captain King realized that the 507th was not on the correct route and tried to backtrack. Vehicles were breaking down and one ran out of gas. As Master Sgt. Robert Dowdy began urging the convoy to speed up, the 507th came under a "torrent of fire," according to the report. When soldiers tried to fire back, many of them experienced jammed weapons, likely caused by weapons that may not have been cleaned properly during the three days of driving through the Iraqi desert.

Capt. King, in a humvee, and other vehicles at the front of the column were able to escape back across the Euprhates River and seek help from a Marine unit. A second group of 507th soldiers - Staff Sgt. Tarik Jackson, Sgt. Matthew Rose, Sgt. Curtis Campbell, Corporal Damien Luten, Corporal Francis Carista, and Private James Grubb - were able to hold off their attackers until the Marines arrived.

In other areas, 11 soldiers were killed, including nine members of the 507th. Six 507th soldiers in the same general area became prisoners of war. One of those, Pfc. Patrick Miller, killed as many as nine Iraqi combatants according to the report. Miller was awarded the Silver Star, the nation's third highest honor for a combat soldier.