To: Bill Davis FR
"non-live fire exercise..."This is why the Marines did not have ammo. It was a training exercise.
6 posted on
10/09/2002 7:04:44 AM PDT by
jbstrick
To: jbstrick
When you are in a potentially hostile area you need to have ammo. Everyone remembers that the guards at the Beirut marine barracks didn't have ammo either.
7 posted on
10/09/2002 7:08:14 AM PDT by
LarryM
To: jbstrick
haha...you must be one of the best of the desperates...the middle east is not a training exercise area...
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