Damn! That sounds like something Chesty would have said!!
CHIEF, you're up there watching all of this.
Don't it make you proud, old son??
Posted on 04/08/2003 6:41:21 PM PDT by antaresequity
By Lindsay Murdoch Herald Correspondent south of Baghdad
April 9 2003, 11:05 AM
Hundreds of Muslim fighters, many of them non-Iraqis, were putting up a stronger fight for Baghdad than Iraq's Republican Guard or the regular army, a top United States military officer said yesterday.
"They stand, they fight, sometimes they run when we engage them," Brigadier-General John Kelly said.
"But often they run into our machine guns and we shoot them down like the morons they are."
General Kelly, assistant commander of the about 20,000-strong 1st Marine Division, said US intelligence indicated that there might be anywhere between 500 and 5000 of the fighters, whom he described as terrorists.
"They appear willing to die. We are trying our best to help them out in that endeavour," he said.
General Kelly said a captured Syrian fighter who had his leg blown off had refused medical help. "They are arrogant. They are determined," he said.
The fighters were armed with AK47 rifles and hand-held rockets, he said.
"We are finding them more dangerous than the conventional Iraqi units."
General Kelly said pockets of the Republican Guard and Iraq's regular army were engaging thousands of US marines who had entered Baghdad from the north-east after seizing control of bridges across the Tigris River.
The resistance was unco-ordinated, he said.
"There's no shifting of forces ... there are no reinforcements ... there is no cohesion to the whole thing."
Any rational military command would have surrendered by now, he said.
"There can be no escape."
General Kelly said marines were about to seize buildings and land in Baghdad that were of strategic importance.
"Once we take ground we tend not to give it up."
Our soldiers sometimes err on the side of keeping themselves and their comrades alive.
The muslims do the opposite.
Damn! That sounds like something Chesty would have said!!
CHIEF, you're up there watching all of this.
Don't it make you proud, old son??
Those virgins must be awful cute to bring on this level of suicide.
The Middle East may have some time to have a little more common sense break out since we're winnowing out a generation of crazed terrorists!
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| Brigadier General John F. Kelly is currently serving as the Assistant Division Commander, 1st Marine Division, having assumed this assignment on 26 July 2002. Brigadier General Kelly enlisted in the Marine Corps in September 1970. Commissioned in 1976 after graduation from the University of Massachusetts, he served as a rifle and weapons platoon commander, company executive officer, assistant operations officer, and infantry company commander, in the 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, from July 1976 until February 1979 when transferred to sea duty. Duty afloat aboard the aircraft carriers Forrestal and Independence concluded in September 1980, at which time he transferred as a captain to the U.S. Army's Infantry Officer Advanced Course, Ft. Benning, Georgia. After graduation from Ft. Benning in June 1981, Brigadier General Kelly reported to the Officer Assignment Branch, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., for duty as an assignment monitor. Concluding this tour in June 1984, he was again sent to the 2d Marine Division and commanded a rifle and weapons company for two years, and, as a major, served a year as the battalion's operations officer. In June 1987 he moved to The Basic School, Quantico, Virginia, where he initially headed the Offensive Tactics Section, Tactics Group. He later assumed duties as the Director of the Infantry Officer Course, and held that position for over two years. In August 1990 he was reassigned to duty for a year as a student at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and a second year attending the School for Advanced Warfighting - both also at Quantico. Completing school, the next assignment was as Commanding Officer, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California. He held this command position from June 1992 through May 1994, and was then assigned as a student to the National War College in Washington D.C. Graduation from the War College took place in June of 1995 when he immediately assumed duty as the Commandant's Liaison Officer to the U.S. House of Representatives, Capitol Hill, a position he held until early summer 1999. Transferred to joint duty, he assumed responsibilities as the Special Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, in Mons, Belgium, until June 2001, when he was assigned to a third tour at Camp Lejeune this time as the Assistant Chief of Staff G-3, 2d Marine Division. Decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal with gold star, Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal with three gold stars, Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and Navy/Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal. (Updated March 11, 2003 HQMC) |
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Well, the reporter at Fox then got Rick Leventhal on the phone. He's embedded with the the 1st Marines in a LAR battalion. Leventahl turns to this MArine by the name of Cody and says, "Cody, what is it you guys are singing as we near Baghdad?"
Cody, a strapping young fellow looks at Leventhal with a slightly twisted grin and says, "Kill'em All by Metallica". LOL
At this late date, I am not too ashamed to admit that I should have waited for the Marine Recruiter to get back from lunch.
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