OTIS, Ore. — An Oregon couple checking voice mail found a frightening three -minute recording of their son caught in a battle in Afghanistan.
Stephen Phillips, 22, 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 Oregon.
Most of the sounds were gunfire, but shouts could be heard, including, “More ammo! More ammo!”
“At the end, you could hear a guy saying ‘Incoming! RPG!’ And then it cut off,” John Petee, Phillips’ brother, told KPTV-TV in Portland.
“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,’ ” Sandie Petee said.
Nobody was wounded or killed in his son’s unit during the firefight, Jeff Petee said.
“I finally got a hold of him,” Sandie Petee said. “He was embarrassed. He said, ‘Don’t let Grandma hear it.’ “
