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To: Kathy in Alaska

Amphibious armored vehicles from the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, drive behind an escort Thursday as they arrive to receive supplies for Marines fighting in downtown Fallujah.

Fallujah is the latest city to open up a "Duck Tour" service for out-of-towners.

 

Lance Cpl. Garrett Anderson rests his eyes Thursday after two exhausting days conducting house-to-house searches in Fallujah, Iraq.

Darn, I think that I left the oven on in that last house.

Marines escort suspected insurgents captured in Fallujah during pitched street battles in the city’s neighborhoods on Friday.

Come on Haji, Take the Pepsi Challenge in here, and if you get it right  you win a one year supply of diet soda.

A Marine maintains security on a driveway as leathernecks from the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, search a house in Fallujah, Iraq, on Thursday.

After a long day at the office, some of the Troops like to sit around and have a nice fireside chat.

A Marine from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, makes his way down a street in Fallujah, Iraq, on Thursday.

A few of the Troops were astonished at the size of the Asian mosquitoes, and other insects in the region.

Iraqi soldiers take off their boots before searching a mosque in the western part of Fallujah on Saturday. 

Unfortunately the ruck-sacks do not have room for bowling shoes, so the Troops had to pay the rental fee before entering the Arcade.

  

Marines from 1st Division take up positions overlooking the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, on Saturday.

Hey Sarge, from way up here all of the insurgents look like ants.

Lance Cpl. Nathan Horton, left, and Gunnery Sgt. Doug Berry escort a pair of Iraqi detainees during operations in Fallujah, Iraq.

Recent events have suddenly cleared up the mystery of the linen shortages which the local hospitals and hotels have been experiencing.

 

A Marine with Charlie Company, 1st Marine Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, conducts mop-up duty at a house in Fallujah, Iraq.

Sweeping, vacuuming, and dusting were designated to be the responsibility of Alpha and Bravo Companies.

Iraqis walk through the Abu Ghraib section of Baghdad on Saturday as a U.S. tank blocks vehicle traffic through the area. Some roads were sealed after overnight clashes between U.S. forces and insurgents nearby.

After the roads were properly sealed, another crew came along and began the line painting.

 

A U.S. soldier guards the scene of a collision between an armored vehicle and two civilian vehicles in Baghdad on Saturday. 

Some of the Troops have yet to master the "art" of parallel parking!

A B-25 Mitchell bomber flies over Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., during a D-Day re-enactment at the Aviation Nation air show in Las Vegas on Saturday.

 The newest casinos in Las Vegas have free air shows as an enticement for visitors.

 

Streamers explode into the air to celebrate the christening of the destroyer USS Bainbridge at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, on Saturday. The warship is the 25th Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer to be built by the firm, and the fifth Navy ship to be named for Commodore William Bainbridge, according to officials.

The latest state of the art Destroyers are protected by an outer layer of silly string which is the newest innovation.

U.S. Marines hold up their weapons as they cross Falluja bridge before entering the centre of the war-torn city November 16, 2004.

Hey Iraqi insurgents, maybe you wouldn't have the Marines in your face if you were not so busy decorating your bridge with our civilians.

 

US soldiers from the 3rd Battalion 21st regiment of the Stryker Brigade on patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Even though there are a lot of risks being in the military stationed in hostile areas some of the Troops are still willing to take risks and have not cut back on their smoking habits.

139 posted on 11/16/2004 8:48:47 AM PST by Radix (Will the last person out please turn off the Tag Lines?)
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To: Radix

Radix, do you think this gal's name is

Sandy?

 


151 posted on 11/16/2004 9:20:21 AM PST by tomkow6 (.......................they're coming BACKKKKKKKKKK!......to Camp Run-A-Muk.............)
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To: Radix
Sweeping, vacuuming, and dusting were designated to be the responsibility of Alpha and Bravo Companies.

ROFL - this was my fave of the day!

211 posted on 11/16/2004 1:21:57 PM PST by StarCMC (It's God's job to forgive Bin Laden; it's our job to arrange the meeting.)
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To: Radix; MS.BEHAVIN

Our Ms.B was there in Bainbridge on Saturday -- putting up some of that silly string. ;)


232 posted on 11/16/2004 2:33:29 PM PST by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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