Dave (center) on bridge in Fallujah
Dave (center) in Fallujah
Dave with “V”
Posted on 11/24/2004 8:21:40 AM PST by RepCath
Dear Dad -
Just came out of the city and I honestly do not know where to start. I am afraid that whatever I send you will not do sufficient honor to the men who fought and took Fallujah.
Shortly before the attack, Task Force Fallujah was built. It consisted of Regimental Combat Team 1 built around 1st Marine Regiment and Regimental Combat Team 7 built around 7th Marine Regiment. Each Regiment consisted of two Marine Rifle Battalions reinforced and one Army mechanized infantry battalion.
Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT-1) consisted of 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (3rd LAR), 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines (3/5); 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (3/1)and 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry (2/7). RCT-7 was slightly less weighted but still a formidable force. Cutting a swath around the city was an Army Brigade known as Blackjack. The Marine RCT's were to assault the city while Blackjack kept the enemy off of the backs of the assault force.
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Some new pictures of Dave from Fallujah.
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Dave (center) in Fallujah
Dave with “V”
great post! May God bless our troops.
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It is impossible to express the gratitude that I feel to these men and women and their families. It is completely humbling to contemplate the sacrafices our Armed Foreces make daily so my family can enjoy our everyday lives.
May God Bless each and every one of them...
Members of the new Iraqi army carrying Iraqi flags at the Al-Nuimiyah base in Kut, Iraq 
A British soldier on patrol in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. US-led forces swept hotspots in a 'triangle of death' in a push to reclaim rebel enclaves ahead of key January polls 
US Marines provide security while others conduct a search operation on known terrorists insurgents' houses in al-Qaim, near the Syria border, western Iraq
Thanks for pictures. I hadn't seen those.
Thanks for the ping! I hope these guys have a Happy Thanksgiving. and I'm thankful they are fighting for us!
Happy Thanksgiving Ping!
The complete report on that linked page of the Fallujah actions give further evidence of why these terrorists must be treated with ZERO "humanitarian" considerations. Where is the mainstream media on the blatant war crimes being committed by these terrorists? I think the use of a white surrender flag as a lure to attack from is grounds to be wiped out, regardless of your "condition".
Booby trapping wounded combatants is also a tactic that makes me sick. Yet our troops are suppose to continue to follow a "Politically Correct" war plan....
It's hard to believe it's been a year since the President made his surprise visit to Baghdad International.
Who makes those tan flattop M-4s the troops are using? Colt? Bushmaster?
That's complete bullcrap. You may be too obtuse to understand what the mission objectives are.
What Power Point presentation?
Thank you
I wish he'd do it again. I wasn't here last Thanksgiving.
We know it would be too dangerous for him, though. We never know about high ranking government people coming here ahead of time for that very reason.
Donald Rumsfeld delayed a bunch of us at an airfield in Baghdad last May and again when we arrived in Kuwait.
I thought that was kind of cool.
Amazing images. The powerpoint did not "play" for me but I did see all of the pictures. It seems that the media is holding back.
It's tremendous to see our guys take this bridge. The U.S. military - at a time of their choosing - has the last word.
Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi (4th from the left) visits members of the new Iraqi army at Al-Nomanyaa base in Iraq 
will end with a couple of stories of individual heroism that you may not have heard yet. I was told about both of these incidents shortly after they occurred. No doubt some of the facts will change slightly but I am confident that the meat is correct.
The first is a Marine from 3/5. His name is Corporal Yeager (Chuck Yeager's grandson). As the Marines cleared and apartment building, they got to the top floor and the point man kicked in the door. As he did so, an enemy grenade and a burst of gunfire came out. The explosion and enemy fire took off the point man's leg. He was then immediately shot in the arm as he lay in the doorway. Corporal Yeager tossed a grenade in the room and ran into the doorway and into the enemy fire in order to pull his buddy back to cover. As he was dragging the wounded Marine to cover, his own grenade came back through the doorway. Without pausing, he reached down and threw the grenade back through the door while he heaved his buddy to safety. The grenade went off inside the room and Cpl Yeager threw another in. He immediately entered the room following the second explosion. He gunned down three enemy all within three feet of where he stood and then let fly a third grenade as he backed out of the room to complete the evacuation of the wounded Marine. You have to understand that a grenade goes off within 5 seconds of having the pin pulled. Marines usually let them "cook off" for a second or two before tossing them in. Therefore, this entire episode took place in less than 30 seconds.
The second example comes from 3/1. Cpl Mitchell is a squad leader. He was wounded as his squad was clearing a house when some enemy threw pineapple grenades down on top of them. As he was getting triaged, the doctor told him that he had been shot through the arm. Cpl Mitchell told the doctor that he had actually been shot "a couple of days ago" and had given himself self aide on the wound. When the doctor got on him about not coming off the line, he firmly told the doctor that he was a squad leader and did not have time to get treated as his men were still fighting. There are a number of Marines who have been wounded multiple times but refuse to leave their fellow Marines.
Words fail me.
What do you say to and about men like these?
You never know where he might pop up this year. The impression I got was he really got as much of a boost out of his trip last year as the troops there did.
Bagram or Kandahar Air Base in Afghanistan?
worked good for me
thanks
"What do you say to and about men like these?" Humble thank yous, and God bless and keep these Warriors. Let the world learn that these are the cream of America. The rest of us are the skim milk.
Great pix ~ Bump!
Real live heros.
Check PP show post # 19 ........comments ?
Keeper !
Thanks for the ping WD !
Goodness, Anonymous, where are you getting all these photographs?
A US Marine takes position in the restive city of Fallujah, 50 kms west of Baghdad 
US soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) stand guard on the roof of a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul 
U.S. Army soldiers look for insurgents after taking small arms fire in Mosul, Iraq Wednesday, November 24, 2004. The U.S. military said five more bodies were found Wednesday in northern Mosul, bringing the total to 20 bodies found in the past week. Previously, U.S. troops had found the bodies of ten Iraqi regular army soldiers. Five other bodies have still not been identified 
U.S. Army soldiers hold flags during a ceremony marking the end the U.S. military's peacekeeping participation in Bosniain Eagle Base in northern Bosnia, November 24, 2004 . TThe U.S. military on Wednesday ended a 9-year peacekeeping role in Bosnia but kept on a small contingent to hunt down top war crimes suspects Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic
Our current Marines honor their centuries of tradition and bravery!
What are you talking about? Exactly what part of my post is "bullcrap"? The part where I said that I am sickened by the terrorists boobytrapping bodies and wounded?
Or that part that our troops are still basically held to a standard of PC - we still give aid to wounded enemy fighters, our guys are not suppose to shoot combatants who are indicating a surrender (even though they have shot at our guys from behind a white surrender flag).
Please clarify your reply.
Yet our troops are suppose to continue to follow a "Politically Correct" war plan....
What's "Politically Correct" about it?
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