[ARealMothersSonForever]

Abizaid is doing the right thing here. Kudos to the President and Congress for authorizing and funding this in Anbar. Good news. And I am normally NOT a fan of Abizaid.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Another angle on the Anbar activities.

[TexKat]

Troops who threw themselves on grenades could get Medal of Honor

[sine_nomine]

We need to fight to win, not manage another "face-saving" surrender.

[vpintheak]

My Brother is with the 15th MEU. Pray for them all.

[stylin19a]

Lt. Richard Jahelka said he joined the Marines five months ago ready to fight in Iraq

is this possible ?
He'd be a 2nd Lt. probably, but joined 5 months ago ?
OCS used to be 10 weeks, then another 6 months of additional training.
Any newer Corps Marines shed some light on this ?

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

looky

[Humidston]

Today I spent all day baking cookies to be shipped to the troops. My modest "thank you" seems so insufficient...

[mathurine]

Get some, Marines; get as many as you can as quickly as you can. And thanks. Wish I were 50 years younger and right there with you, instead of the oldest Marine present at the Marine Corps Birthday celebration.

[river rat]

Ramadi is a city full of "bad people"?
We're still sending our Grunts in there?
I guess we're still stuck on STUPID...

If Ramadi is so bad -- LEVEL THE DAMNED PLACE.
Reduce it to a single level of rubble, THEN send the troops in to kill the remaining Jihadists... Make an example of the damned place.

If we MUST be nice -- encircle the city, and offer an exit through check points for women, children and elderly men..
But ONLY if we must be nice....

We didn't offer those options to the Germans or Japanese.
Why are we more resistant to killing Muslims than protecting our own young men from death?

Force Protection and Enemy Destruction -- the key to survival and victory...

Semper Fi

[Zack Nguyen]

He was rushed to Germany for surgery that was able to prevent paralysis.

Thank God.