Posted on 12/15/2009 7:57:27 PM PST by pissant
As his M1 Abrams tank, nicknamed Bonecrusher, rolled through Fallujah, Iraq, Gunnery Sgt. Nick Popaditch thought about the trail of dead insurgents left in its wake: Fight and you die. Run and you die. Hide and you die. Hey, this works for me.
Popaditch, or Gunny Pop as his Marines called him, commanded a tank platoon during the first Battle of Fallujah in April 2004. Fighting only a week after four American contractors from Blackwater USA were captured, killed and their bodies hung from a bridge, Bonecrusher and Popaditchs other tank were working with Marine infantry in clearing insurgents out of the citys northwest outskirts.
Popaditch thought that days fight might be different. Usually the enemy shot a few rocket-propelled grenades and ran; this morning Popaditch heard a higher-than-usual volume of AK-47 fire, along with the deeper bursts of a Russian-made machine gun launching rocket-propelled grenades. Maybe this meant the Marines would be engaging a larger force.
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IMO - everyone on this thread that is hopeful Nick will beat out the ugly opposition, needs to dig down in the pockets and send what money they can to help his campaign. Forget sending money to GOP. Send it directly to the candidate of your choice. I send to Duncan Hunter (CA) and Allen West (FL) and Collins Bailey (MD).
“IMO - everyone on this thread that is hopeful Nick will beat out the ugly opposition, needs to dig down in the pockets and send what money they can to help his campaign. Forget sending money to GOP.”
Excellent idea. Let’s get Popaditch to Washington.
Pom Pom’s will be out in force for Gunny Pop!
I think the writer is trying to describe a Russian or Chinese semiautomatic grenade launcher.
Bump to that, bitt!
I agree!!
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