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To: ansel12
If you read the aricle he was fighting as infantry

He was hunting down guerrillas in a hostile urban area.

That's not same as an infantry engagement with uniformed troops on an open battlefield.

He was likely there because his special skills would prove useful in ferreting out high-value targets in that confusing and challenging environment.

Had he been killed by an IED while on a routine infantry patrol on the streets of Baghdad, your claims would make perfect sense to me.

But he was fighting in a very challenging situation where his special skills could well have made a very big difference.

21 posted on 08/31/2006 10:29:19 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: wideawake

"He was hunting down guerrillas in a hostile urban area."


That is what infantry do.


23 posted on 08/31/2006 10:39:56 AM PDT by ansel12 (Life is exquisite... of great beauty, keenly felt.)
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