“Are the Marines even allowed to put ammo in their rifles?”
Better yet: How much ammo do the Marines have? Can they sustain a firefight for 10 min? 20 min? Any one air dropping more ammo?
Or is the whole thing just made up?
Why would ISIS waste time, men etc in taking the base, other than for the propaganda value, when they can simply bypass them on the way to Baghdad?
This is a large air base. Getting stuff in and out is really not an issue. They will get the 300 marines out of there before they over run.