Posted on 10/12/2007 7:21:02 PM PDT by DeusExMachina05
Family, friends, and Fellow Marines,
As promised, here is my first "update" from this tour in Iraq. I will try and get one of these out about every month. I hope this finds you all doing well. It has been a very fast moving month and a half as we moved the 1,000+ Marines from 1/7 and literally tons of equipment and material half way around the world through Kuwait and eventually into Iraq. We have inventoried and signed for well over a hundred pieces of rolling stock, thousands of pieces of electronic equipment and computers, joined a few hundred more reinforcements to 1/7 (making us now "Task Force 1/7") and then we put everyone in their new positions, spreading us out over 500 square kilometers. Needless to say, the Marines of the First Team have been busy!
Here is the million dollar question I have been asked repeatedly since I have arrived, "How is it compared to the last time you were in Iraq?"
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Thank you for posting this article. I am so grateful for our military, and I pray for their safety and success.
Harry Reid, shame on you!! This war is NOT lost. We are winning; we will win.
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