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FORWARD OPERATING BASE HIT, Iraq (Jan. 2, 2006) -- Sticking out the roof of the Humvee, with only his goggles and a scarf to protect his face from the biting Iraqi winter wind, Lance Cpl. Daniel G. Junker scans the road ahead and its shoulders. From his vantage point in the gunner’s ring, half-hidden behind armor plates and his M240G medium machine gun, Junker serves as the forward-looking set of eyes for the small patrol of green and tan Humvees motoring down the crater-strewn, two-lane highway. Having left Forward Operating Base Hit, the home of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HIT, Iraq (Jan. 1, 2006) -- The old axiom that the Marines are ‘first in’ often brings to mind the image of infantrymen charging a fire-swept beach or leaping from a hovering helicopter into the thick of battle. However, as the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) began to set up shop in the vicinity of Hit, Iraq, the first MEU Marines to arrive did so carrying communications gear in addition to their weapons. Functioning under an umbrella of security provided by both the MEU’s combat forces and those of the unit they were replacing, the...

Good Old Times By Donnel Jones, October 28, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms The 22nd Socialist International Congress met today in Sao Paulo Brazil. The event was noted for being a non-event with attendance counted in no-shows. It appears the Party has suffered a hangover. I respectfully request all readers right now to sit still and observe a moment of silence. There now. Feel better? We can all breathe easily, confident that we have entered the Twilight Zone and are none the worse for it. But Brazil? Remember, the tropics love their socialism. The horrid North, with its penchant for individual responsibility,...