Holy cow look at the muscles on those soldiers!
Posted on 11/08/2004 8:39:55 AM PST by epluribus_2
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - More than 4,000 U.S. Marines and Army troops punched their way into northeastern Fallujah on Monday, kicking off a massive assault dubbed Operation Phantom Fury that seeks to put an end to half a year of insurgent control of the Sunni Muslim city.
The prelude to the assault on the Askari neighborhood was a crushing air and artillery bombardment of the city that rose to a crescendo by Monday evening, with U.S. strike jets dropping bombs around the clock and big guns pounding the city every few minutes with high-explosive shells.
Meanwhile, insurgents in Baghdad and nearby Ramadi tried to keep up the pressure on the coalition forces with new attacks, including one on a Catholic church in the capital.
Earlier Monday U.S. troops had fought their way into the city's western outskirts, seizing two bridges over the Euphrates River and helping Iraqi soldiers take the city's main hospital in the first stage of a major assault on the insurgent stronghold.
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Stone Fury?
Holy cow look at the muscles on those soldiers!
Unrestricted ROE - all out warfare.
Amen
"does it bug anyone that this is happening in broad daylight??? is that protocol for house to house now?'
Er, Ummm, once you start it's a bit hard to stop just because the sun came up.
Also, a lot of what I've seen so far was taped yesterday/last night (here) when the troops were forming up and/or probing and shaping what was to come. Likely that we are using darkness right now to advantage.
I believe a C-130 is a cargo plane...
Operation Roach Motel.
The bad guys have checked in-but they won't be checking out.
Excellent!
Allwai is a good man ~ Bump!
Wow. Sonuvagun... THAT's going to get some cleaning done. About time.
whoa!
I like the way you think. I hope this is the most unfair damned fight our guys have ever waged and won.
A lot of secong guessing going on in the reports from the embeds.They are only at one site in the battle.Last report had our forces at 20,000 coalition troops.
They probably operate in platoon strength with the one embed.
It is getting dark now and it will be hard to tell what is going on until morning.
We fight better in the dark than the enemy.
Sent an EMail to a local Boston TV station about the 2PM briefing. Just got a note backs sying they were going to carry it. WHDH Channel 7.
I love those pictures.
Go troops, and get one for everyone we've lost over there.
May you have total victory over this evil!
Remember Geraldo's dirt maps?
Speaking of Jerry, I don't see his byline or face anywhere; oh drat!
I believe he meant AC-130. Spectre gunship. Bad mofo.
Iraq prayer ping!
I believe a C-130 is a cargo plane...I'm sure he's talking about an AC-130.
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