[Getsmart64]

"Entire Mrine divisions replaced the 101st and 82nd Airborne"


Correct me if I'm wrong....but it isn't "marine division(s)...but a marine division...as in singular...I wish there were more than one division in the area....

[BushMeister]

The 1st Marine division is in the fallujah area:

2-21-2004 The Marine Corps yesterday released the list of units for the 25,000 Marines and sailors who are going to Iraq for a March-to-September deployment.

About 20,000 of them will come from the 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton and the 3rd Marine Air Wing at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station. Others are from Camp Lejeune, N.C., and Marine Forces Reserve, New Orleans.

Defense experts said that the force is notable for the number of infantry and engineers and that each will counted on to help quell what appears to be a broadening insurgency.

The Marines will relieve the Army's 82nd Airborne Division in Anbar province in western Iraq

[victoryatallcosts]

The First Marine Division, Major General Jim Mattias commanding.

See, the problem with the demand for "more troops" is this: the "insurgents" will simply have more targets for suicide bombings. Minimal footprint is the solution against the Islamist.