Marine gunnery sergeant revolutionized tank warfare but lost his right eye in battle (Gunny Pop)

Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise ^ | 11/20/09 | Andrew Lubin

[pissant]

As his M1 Abrams tank, nicknamed Bonecrusher, rolled through Fallujah, Iraq, Gunnery Sgt. Nick Popaditch thought about the trail of dead insurgents left in its wake: “Fight and you die. Run and you die. Hide and you die. Hey, this works for me.”

Popaditch, or “Gunny Pop” as his Marines called him, commanded a tank platoon during the first Battle of Fallujah in April 2004. Fighting only a week after four American contractors from Blackwater USA were captured, killed and their bodies hung from a bridge, Bonecrusher and Popaditch’s other tank were working with Marine infantry in clearing insurgents out of the city’s northwest outskirts.

Popaditch thought that day’s fight might be different. Usually the enemy shot a few rocket-propelled grenades and ran; this morning Popaditch heard a higher-than-usual volume of AK-47 fire, along with the deeper bursts of a Russian-made machine gun launching rocket-propelled grenades. Maybe this meant the Marines would be engaging a larger force.

To read more, go to http://www.americanvalor.net/heroes/392

[pissant]

His America is that of George Washington, John Paul Jones, Tecumseh Sherman, Teddy Roosevelt, John Wayne and George Patton. Not the phony, red, effeminate one being foisted on us by the likes of Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Dr. Spock, and Bill Ayers.

[pissant]

BIG BUMP. And thanks!!

[STARWISE]

Go, Nick~~~!! We'll never forget ya ....

[MEG33]

Thanks pissant!

[pissant]

But we will be contributing mightily as we can to his VICTORY in 2010!!!!!

[Candor7]

I am looking forward to the face off.

[pissant]

My pleasure.

[GOP_Lady]

Wow. Thanks, Dolly!

People like CIGAR GUY are true heroes.

[jazusamo]

Gunny Pop is going to chew up Filner and spit him out! :-)

Thanks for the ping, Dolly.

[MEG33]

Been revisiting your great thread, Dolly..Wonderful ...

[potlatch]

Thank you Dolly.

[donnalee]

I saw him Red Eye a few months ago, we need more like him in Congress!
Video of Nick Popaditch on Fox News

[Semper Mark]

Gunny Pop ping.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

BTTT

[MestaMachine]

Bill Russell, Desert Storm veteran, former Army lieutenant colonel and Army reservist who survived the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, (“I am a Conservative,” he says in his defining campaign statement. “I believe in the sovereignty and security of this one nation, under God. I believe the primary role of government is to provide for the common defense and a legal framework to protect families and individual liberty. … I believe that no one owes me anything just because I live and breathe.”) in PA running against Murtha.

Col West (”If you’re a bad guy, don’t ever get between me and the safety and the lives of the American people,” West says of the incident. “As a commander, your moral responsibility is to take care of your troops.”) in FLA running against Klein.

Gunny Pop in CA.
We need so many more like them.
Yes, we do!!!

[444Flyer]

“Congressman Popaditch” looking forward to that in print.

[bitt]

proud ping!

[Sarajevo]

along with the deeper bursts of a Russian-made machine gun launching rocket-propelled grenades

Nothing against the Gunny, but modern journalism sux. Now, where can I get one of those rocket launching machine-guns..........

[Einherjar]

Where is California 51 ? Can i move there in time to vote for The Gunny ?

this is another one of those Jarheads that i would follow in the assault on the gates of hell with a bucket of gas in each hand .

E.
Cpl. U.S.M.C.
1967-1970

[freema]

Ping!