Posted on 04/03/2003 7:55:26 AM PST by Valin
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:38:47 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
CAMP VIPER, IRAQ -- Before they left Kuwait in March, Marines in Lance Cpl. Gerald Jennex's unit made a sign that indirectly taunts their peers back home: "Spring Break 2003 -- Baghdad."
Their officers made them take the sign off the troop transport. There have been no beaches, bikinis or beers on the route to Baghdad. Instead, Jennex shot and killed an Iraqi. It may have been a woman or an Iraqi fighter dressed as a woman. He doesn't know, and that bothers him. The troops doing the shooting and taking the fire in this war are about the same age as the carefree crowd that cuts it up during March and April on the sands of Florida or Texas. Jennex, who turned 21 in March, is the average age of the U.S. combatants on the front lines, said Navy Cmdr. Dennis Reeves, a neuropsychologist at Camp Pendleton, the Marine base in California.
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Why, I wonder.
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