Defend America Photo Essay ~ Fallujah

Defend America ^ | April 16, 2004

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Lance Cpl. Richard A. Maria, a truck driver with Combat Service Support Company 

113,  guards his cargo - ammunition being rushed to support Operation Vigilant Resolve

in Fallujah, Iraq - while his supply convoy halts momentarily April 6, 2004.

 

Later that night, the convoy was ambushed by insurgents.

 

 

Warriors at work.

        ~  ~

[blackie]

Great pix ~ Bump!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[F14 Pilot]

PING!

[MEG33]

God bless them.

[Diogenesis]

TWO IMPORTANT BUMPS THIS AM

1. Ragtime Cowgirl has a great Iraq War photoessay. You Gotta See IT.

also
2. Ripley, take a seat in back, with "Destruction of Evidence" by .. Jamie Gorelick.

"Destruction of Evidence" , 2002 by Jamie Gorelick, Stephen Marzen, Lawrence Solum, Aspen Publishers
Amazon.com's Price: $170.00 --- FR thread here

[Clara Lou]

If I were that Marine walking along the top of the berm, I think I'd look at this picture and decide never to do it again. He makes a perfect target silhouetted against the sky.

[A.A. Cunningham]

You want him to low crawl back and forth along the top of that berm? You don't know much about SMEAC, tactics or following orders.

[68skylark]

I thought the same thing when I saw that picture. If it were me, I'd try to find a way to get off that crest.

[68skylark]

Really good pictures -- we can always count on great posts from you.

[McGavin999]

OH NO, their mail truck burned?

[Clara Lou]

You want him to low crawl back and forth along the top of that berm? You don't know much about SMEAC, tactics or following orders.
I'm not there, and I'm not in the military doing his job. I just know that I wouldn't be walking along the top of that berm if there were any other way I could do the job. Would a C. O. actually order a man/woamn to expose himself like that?

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the essay, RC. Nice to see Our troops in action.

[DoughtyOne]

Go guys! My thoughts are with you.

[Shooter 2.5]

I really want to tell our guys to keep their heads down. I just cringe when I see a soldier or Marine sticking his body up so far.

I don't want to be an Armchair Ranger but what happened to air support with each convoy?

[Happy2BMe]

> > Warriors at work . .

And YOU are one of them - keep up the grat work - promotion is coming.

:~)

[Happy2BMe]

Come look - ping.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Would a C. O. actually order a man/woamn to expose himself like that?

Depending on the surrounding terrain and the tactical situation, yes.

[A.A. Cunningham]

I learned day 1 during my training with the Marines that you never stand atop a ridge.

Unless you were billeted with 4th Battalion on Parris Island, I don't believe you.