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'Alone and Unafraid' plunges deep into Afghan heartland
Marine Corps News ^
| June 18, 2004
| Gunnery Sergeant Keith A. Milks
Posted on 06/18/2004 9:38:16 AM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4
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Trucks have a driver and passengers. Fighting vehicles have crews. With these guys in it, any vehicle is a fighting vehicle.
OO-rah, Sergeant Major
Battalion Landing Team 1st Bn., 6th Marines Sgt. Maj. Thomas Hall walks alongside a road in Afghanistan during recent combat operations. Hall and BLT 1/6 is part of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) deployed to central Afghanistan to support Operation Enduring Freedom.
To: Criminal Number 18F; af_vet_rr; ALOHA RONNIE; American in Israel; American Soldier; archy; ...
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posted on
06/18/2004 9:40:48 AM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Dubbed 'Alone and Unafraid' by its crew,...
To: Cannoneer No. 4; Ragtime Cowgirl; SAMWolf
Bump-Ping!!!
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posted on
06/18/2004 9:43:43 AM PDT
by
HiJinx
(The Left has never been constrained by the truth.)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
I was in the process - took an hour to find graphics. You beat me by less than 2 minutes:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1155987/posts
(Deleting). Let that be a lesson to me, lol.
Ping!
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posted on
06/18/2004 9:49:12 AM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
So did you find some good grapics?
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posted on
06/18/2004 10:04:13 AM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out)
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posted on
06/18/2004 10:27:06 AM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out)
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posted on
06/18/2004 10:33:55 AM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
True successors to the legend of "RAT PATROL" of the Sahara, WW II. And they did it with a Jeep and almost zero supplies against the elite Afrika Korps of General Rommel.
Was "The Rat Patrol" based in any fact, or was it entirely fictional?
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posted on
06/18/2004 10:39:45 AM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out)
To: alloysteel
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posted on
06/18/2004 11:00:53 AM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
With a Command Sargent Major leading - actually leading up front - Lance Corporal Jorge Granados and Sergeant Richard Martinez and any others with them will live up to the highest standards of the Corps.
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posted on
06/18/2004 12:23:49 PM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: alloysteel
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posted on
06/18/2004 12:54:47 PM PDT
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Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out)
To: alloysteel
Was "The Rat Patrol" based in any fact, or was it entirely fictional? The TV show was very loosely based on two British elements that operated in the Western Desert in WWII: The SAS (Special Air Service) and the LRDG (Long Range Desert Group). SAS evolved into Britain's special operation force and is still in use today, and still can conduct "mobility missions" over long expanses of desert. The jeeps and 30 cwt trucks have evolved into land rovers. There were no Americans involved during the war. The tactics of SAS and LRDG have been studied ever since by US special forces, which conducts similar mobility missions in customized HMMWVs.
What these Marines are doing is pretty courageous, but it's not quite the same thing, because they are the spearhead of a combat unit. The SAS/LRDG/SF operations historically have, and still do, go very far outside the fan of practical support. So they stress stealth.
No disrespect to the unit in this article is intended. I get the impression that stealth is secondary to these fine Marines. They are showing the flag and looking for a fight, and Allah will be small comfort to the bad guys that give it to them.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Re:
For more information on the 22d MEU (SOC)'s role in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, visit the unit's web site at www.22meu.usmc.mil. I recommend everybody do that. Good stuff there: www.22meu.usmc.mil.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Fortune favors the brave.
"Sergeant Major Thomas Hall, of Bardstown, Kentucky"
The SGM is from a dry county that makes some of the finest Bourbon extant.
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06/18/2004 6:08:21 PM PDT
by
Khurkris
(Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past, It whispers no this will be the last)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
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posted on
06/18/2004 7:27:20 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(hoplophobia is a mental aberration rather than a mere attitude)
To: FreedomPoster
That was the first grown up book I ever read. I was 11. I still remember parts of it.
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posted on
06/18/2004 7:32:20 PM PDT
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Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
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posted on
06/19/2004 3:25:43 AM PDT
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FreedomPoster
(hoplophobia is a mental aberration rather than a mere attitude)
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