14 Marines Killed Today From Ohio Battalion

NBC 4 Columbus ^ | August 3, 2005

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BROOK PARK, Ohio -- A military spokesman said that 14 Marines wh owere killed in Iraq Wednesday were members of the same Ohio-based battalion that lost six members on Monday.

Gunnery Sgt. Brad Lauer said the Marines were members of the Third Battalion, 25th Marines based in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park.

The military said the Marines were traveling in an amphibious assault vehicle that was hit by a roadside bomb near Haditha, 140 miles northwest of Baghdad. An Iraqi translator also was killed and another Marine was wounded.

Lauer said the victims names' have not been released. It's unclear how many of them are from Ohio. The battalion has units in Brook Park; Columbus; Akron; Moundsville, West Virginia and Buffalo, N.Y.

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Are you thinking of Matt Maupin? I'm not sure what unit he is from, but his hometown is Batavia, Ohio. He's the only soldier listed as MIA.

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That is beautiful.

Amen.

[RexBeach]

I agree completely. We must continue the good fight against these monsters who blow up women and children, willingly, to reach they sickening ends. They won't win. We won't let them.

[auto power]

(sigh)....damn. RIP

[Txsleuth]

No, I have been hearing on the radio today that supposedly the terrorists claim that they have captured a Marine in the last few days, and will be posting his picture on the internet soon....

[omniscient]

Why is it so hard not to notice a bunch of guys digging a hole next to a highway at night and planting very large and heavy explosives ! ?

Add this to other great mysteries:

Why can't they fix loose shuttle foam?

Why can't they stop illegal immigration through Mexico by simply building a wall and guarding it?

Why are Palestinian terrorists exempt from the War on Terror?

[Kenton]

Brookpark is Kucinich's district I think. I just can't wait for him to try to make political fodder out of this...

[Txsleuth]

I just saw a blurb on the ticker at the bottom of Fox News, that said that the Pentagon is saying that they do not have notification of any Marines that are missing.....

Supposedly, the Marine was captured in a firefight in Western Iraq the other day.

So, I guess it is still sort of up in the air...

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I'm sure there is something on FR, but I found this on a Google search:

Pentagon denies U.S. Marine captured in Iraq

http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-08-03T142416Z_01_N03697315_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-MARINES-CAPTURE-DC.XML

[Pathfinder]

We were heartbroken with this morning's news.

[Teplukin]

The fact that this happened proves to me that the Marines are getting sloppy . They need to improve their force protection techniques. These level of casualty hurts President Bush, who of course, the Marines have sworn to serve unconditionally

[GloriaJane]

"The fact that this happened proves to me that the Marines are getting sloppy . They need to improve their force protection techniques. These level of casualty hurts President Bush, who of course, the Marines have sworn to serve unconditionally"

The fact that this happened and that six other's were killed yesterday proves to me that newsweek, other's in the msn and some of our senators, durbin for one, are (in my mind) responsible for the upswing in attacks and therefore responsible for these deaths.

My prayers are with the families.

[Right to be Wrong]

Bush must take responsibility for all fallen soldiers because rather than waging a war as he committed US he is playing politics. He is so naive that he believes that his yesterdays enemy are his today truly friends. It almost looks like US is using books from the failed Vietnam war as guidance for the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars. Bush knows who the real enemies are, who is financing them, who is providing facilities to train them. They are so loud, you don't need CIA nor FBI nor billions of dollars to find them."We are here" they keep screaming so the whole world could hear them, and yet Bush keeps on sending his soldiers, sons and daughters of USA, in the line of fire. The only insurgency that I can think of, are his friends stabbing him in his back. Wake up Mr. Bush and take a firm stand for your country, for your countryman. The world is watching you, and what is learning is not so good. US is larger and bigger than your ranch in Texas.
I am joining millions of Americans in prayers for the soldiers, for their wives, children mothers and Fathers, for their friends whose lives will be altered for ever. God bless you all.

[RichardW]

I think that maybe we ought to consider the fact that we didn't have enough troops in Iraq after the war. Perhaps Shinseki was right after all. Now we have a tiger by the tail and can't let go.

If this doesn't get better before long it will very likely affect both the 2006 and 2008 elections if history is any guide. Bring back the draft and watch things really get nasty. I don't see any way around it. Am I wrong?

[mmercier]

Shaped charges are more technologically advanced than the simple devices that are usually "improvised" in ones kitchen. The IED's previously used incorporated old artillery shells and various recovered munitions.

Apparently, the device that took out the 14 Marines was not of the same grade.

Shaped charges are commercially available, usually used for demolition. Iran has been feeding sophisticated munitions technology into the food chain leading to Iraq, some of these munitions are apparently being deployed.

The last briefing I saw about an hour ago indicates that we are aware that the enemy is using new tactics and new munitions.

We can not do anything about Iran or Syria except count our casualties. As long as half our government is rat and all of the msm is rat, we have no other option.

Viet Nam was the lefts greatest victory; Iraq will be even bigger.

[madfgurtbn]

Why is it so hard not to notice a bunch of guys digging a hole next to a highway at night and planting very large and heavy explosives ! ?

There are 39,000 police officers in New York City and something like 150,000 coalition troops in Iraq, which is roughly the same size as California.

You do the math.

[Teplukin]

Yes, the important thing is that President Bush not be blamed. Of course he will be blamed, with libs saying that it was his decision to liberate Iraq. This was actually Clinton's decision! President Bush had nothing to do with it!

[Txsleuth]

When I heard about the 6 snipers, yesterday, and that the theory is that they were ambushed by what they thought were Iraqi soldiers, tells me that, like I have heard many times...it is really, really hard to tell the good guys from the bad....

I THINK, I am not sure though, that I heard that some terrorists were seen wearing Marine uniforms? I'm gonna check...

These last two incidents 6 yesterday, 12 today, happened in the same area....why haven't a couple of bombs been dropped to wipe out that whole area?

[ThreeTracks]

The fact that this happened proves to me that the Marines are getting sloppy . They need to improve their force protection techniques.

Sloppy? YOU try spotting buried explosives from inside a moving armored vehicle!

These level of casualty hurts President Bush

Gee, the poor guy. Did it ever occur to you that "these level of casulty" also hurt the Marines involved?

- ThreeTracks

[colorado tanker]

Just d@#n. A bad day for the good guys.