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Images from the Battle of Fallujah (lest we forget or take it for granted)
Yahoo News Photos ^ | 11/12/04

Posted on 11/12/2004 11:27:25 AM PST by Wolfstar

This thread honors the service and sacrifice of our Armed Forces, and reminds us of why we here at home can go about our daily business in peace. Street-to-street is the toughest type of warfare. Air cover is being flown by pilots from the USS John F. Kennedy, as well as the U.S. Air Force from bases in the area.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: army; battle; falluja; fallujah; georgewbush; iraq; marines; napalminthemorning; pictures; religionofpeace; terror; terrorists; tonyblair; uk; urbanwarfare; usa; wot
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To: WestCoastGal; patriciaruth

Thanks WCG, and good to hear from you. Am pinging Patriciaruth, who may want to post details here. Spread the word as far and wide as possible.


221 posted on 11/12/2004 5:27:53 PM PST by Wolfstar (Yippeeeee!!!! A great election victory AND a new puppy in the White House. Life is good.)
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To: OXENinFLA; yuleeyahoo; Chieftain; tutstar; SpookBrat; Cup a Joe; Dutchgirl; Iluvpopcrn
"Air cover is being flown by pilots from the USS John F. Kennedy, as well as the U.S. Air Force from bases in the area."

NEFL PING!

And a link to this nifty info thread posted by Iluvpopcrn: TreatAnySoldier.com -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1274600/posts

222 posted on 11/12/2004 5:30:04 PM PST by cyn (Prayers always for Terri Schiavo and her family.)
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To: PatriotGirl827
...anti-war leftie wackos were signing up and sending the soldiers pictures of dead babies...

Sheesh! Just when I think they can't sink any lower, they do something like this. Well, based on the results of this election, there's more of us than of them. We'll just have to continue to out-work them on behalf of the good guys.

223 posted on 11/12/2004 5:30:18 PM PST by Wolfstar (Yippeeeee!!!! A great election victory AND a new puppy in the White House. Life is good.)
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To: Wolfstar

I have already thought about this as well, and wished the same thing... that I had the bucks to do it.

So many people do not realize that anything good is going on in Iraq or Afghanistan because they only listen to or read the crappy MSM.

Do you think we could talk someone like Mel Gibson into it? He's got the bucks! :-)


224 posted on 11/12/2004 5:34:23 PM PST by PatriotGirl827 (God Bless America!)
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To: Wolfstar
The bare feet mean they are foreign fighters. The story goes, that the local terrorists don't trust the foreign terrorists (i.e. they think they will leave once they get fed and armed by the locals), so they make them trade in their shoes for weapons.

Makes them all the easier to pick-out as well.

225 posted on 11/12/2004 5:35:11 PM PST by freeasinbeer (If you're not liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you're not conservative by 40, you have no brain.)
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To: cyn

Aviation ordnancemen assigned to the "Jolly Rogers" of Fighter Squadron One Zero Three (VF-103) load Mk-83 general purpose bombs fitted with proximity-fuses onto an F-14B Tomcat aboard the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CV 67) on Monday in the Arabian Gulf. Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW-17) aircraft aboard the Kennedy are supporting ground troops in Fallujah, Iraq. (Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Joshua Karsten / U.S. Navy)

226 posted on 11/12/2004 5:35:29 PM PST by Wolfstar (Yippeeeee!!!! A great election victory AND a new puppy in the White House. Life is good.)
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To: PatriotGirl827

Mel Gibson has been rather cagey about his politics during through this election season. Even if we knew how to reach him personally, I don't know that he could be relied upon to do anything.


227 posted on 11/12/2004 5:37:54 PM PST by Wolfstar (Yippeeeee!!!! A great election victory AND a new puppy in the White House. Life is good.)
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To: freeasinbeer

I guess, unlike the old saying that there's honor among thieves, there's no honor among Allah's warriors, i.e., terrorists.


228 posted on 11/12/2004 5:40:51 PM PST by Wolfstar (Yippeeeee!!!! A great election victory AND a new puppy in the White House. Life is good.)
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To: AppyPappy

"WAIT! Don't open it. I saw this in "Police Academy"

Marines prepare to storm 621 Calahan Avenue, Fallujah.

229 posted on 11/12/2004 5:40:55 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Truth, Justice and the Texan Way)
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To: cyn

"Air cover is being flown by pilots from the USS John F. Kennedy, as well as the U.S. Air Force from bases in the area."

Thanks for reminding us that our Navy and Marine aviators are doing carrier ops each day from the Kennedy.

Just to give some not familiar with what this means.
The nuclear carrier USS J.F. Kennedy is moving about the northern area of the Arabian Sea, off the coast of Kuwait.
The aviators must launch of the carrier, then flying sub sonic, fly close to an hour to their ground targets in Fallujah, release their ordanance, then fly another hour back, land and then depending on how many airstrikes are in the cue for the day, may have to fly back north for a second go around. On their returns to the carrier they must land their jets on a "tiny postage stamp" that may be rolling and yawling to and fro........if they miss the arrestor cable to stop them, they must go into after burners and bolt from the carrier............and do a go around, now if they are getting low on fuel they must fly to a designated airspace to refuel so they can make it back to the carrier.
All in the days work of our proud and couragouse aviators.
We salute them all!


230 posted on 11/12/2004 5:41:31 PM PST by Marine_Uncle
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To: Wolfstar

As friends, pets improve with age, don't they? Didn't have a dog that lived that old, but did have a cat that made it to 22.


231 posted on 11/12/2004 5:45:16 PM PST by Lady Jag (YAHOOO!!! W2!!!)
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To: Marine_Uncle; Wolfstar

thanks for posting that info -- and prayers for all our men and women in the service.

GREAT thread, Wolfstar, thanks . . .


232 posted on 11/12/2004 6:08:47 PM PST by cyn (Prayers always for Terri Schiavo and her family.)
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To: OXENinFLA

Reviving these old pics of NBC drills will play right into the hands of the terrorists' propagandists that are laying false claims to us using chemical weapons in Falujah. They don't care about the actual dates....


233 posted on 11/12/2004 6:12:28 PM PST by No Longer Free State
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To: finnman69

ping - what a generation of heros.


234 posted on 11/12/2004 6:13:34 PM PST by mentor2k
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To: Wolfstar

In his autobiography, Reagan said that he wasn't allowed in combat because his eyesight was really bad. He wore contacts all his life.


235 posted on 11/12/2004 6:14:54 PM PST by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: Wolfstar; ohioWfan; mhking; My2Cents; SoCalPol; onyx
Looking for ping lists over here:

Ping list round up

236 posted on 11/12/2004 6:15:04 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Wolfstar
Great article here:

U.S. says Fallujah rebels cornered, in disarray

And from the Washington Post article:

As the new refugees recounted the events of recent days and weeks, a picture of the battle from the insurgents' side began to emerge. Witnesses described an insurgency fractured by distrust and rivalries between locals and foreigners, and visibly shaken by the thunderous U.S. assault.

But residents said strains between the local insurgents and the foreigners quickly turned into a deep schism under the intense pressure of the U.S.-led offensive.

Residents said everyone in the city, including the insurgents, was stunned by the firepower the Americans brought to the battle. Guerrillas counted 40 armored vehicles approaching their positions as night fell Monday.

237 posted on 11/12/2004 6:18:12 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: 7.62 x 51mm

That sir is a US Marine. (I believe, can't make out the unit patch) Baby faced Devil Dog!


238 posted on 11/12/2004 6:20:13 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (NSDQ)
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To: Wolfstar

What details do I want to post?

I took a couple packages to the post office today with 178 Power Bars and Marathon Snickers and mailed them to C co., 1-5 Infantry, as a relative of one of the soldiers heard they were at Fallujah.

I have no idea if care packages will be delivered to them there, but I gave it a shot. Won't get there for at least 10-14 days anyway. Hopefully things will be calmer by then.


239 posted on 11/12/2004 6:21:08 PM PST by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: Marine_Uncle; Jeff Head
USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67)

Jeff, this is OUR bathtub toy!

240 posted on 11/12/2004 6:22:55 PM PST by cyn (Prayers always for Terri Schiavo and her family.)
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