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The Navy takes a bridge close to the town of Al-Hillah
AFP via Bablefish translation ^
| April 1, 2003
Posted on 04/01/2003 9:16:55 AM PST by HAL9000
Units of Navy American took Tuesday a bridge on a channel in the south of the town of Al-Hillah (80 km in the south of Baghdad), afterwards of violent one combat carried out with the support of bombers B-52, indicated American officers on the spot. According to the director of the hospital of Al-Hillah, 33 civil, whose children, were killed and 310 others wounded in a bombardment américano-British Tuesday morning on the city.
The troops of the First task force of Navy (1MEF) received a support of artillery and of two heavy bombers B-52 during the engagements, a journalist of the AFP present paid with the American troops.
"At the beginning, there was a strong resistance. But completed we them (Iraqi combatants). We continue to advance in accordance with the plan ", declared the commander Cal Worth.
Tens of tanks and transport of troops armoured moved towards this channel.
An American officer of the information declared that about fifty Iraqis had been made prisoners and of the groups of prisoners were seen crossing a bridge on the channel under the monitoring of Navy.
According to this officer, from 300 to 400 Iraqi, military combatants of the regular army and members of the honest militia to president Saddam Hussein, took part in the engagements.
"the majority of the Iraqi combatants fled when the Navy retorted with artillery", it declared.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alhillah; hillah; iraq; marines; saddamhussein; semperfi
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:16:55 AM PST
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
The Navy?
To: denydenydeny
Man that Babelfish has trouble, doesn't it? I first thought we musta sent a sub up the river or something. LOL
NO, Marines are a Navy outfit, according to Babel fish. I guess the program still has some wrinkles.
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:20:18 AM PST
by
wastoute
To: denydenydeny
Marines are (grudgingly) a subsidiary of the Department of the Navy, maybe it was them.
Al-Hillah, eh? Nice of the Iraqis to name a city after Hillary Clinton.
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:20:19 AM PST
by
xrp
To: denydenydeny
Well, technically a Marine Expeditionary Force is part of the Navy; although, neither the Marines nor the Navy likes to think about it.
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:21:11 AM PST
by
Mr. Lucky
To: HAL9000
Maybe some seals?
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:23:44 AM PST
by
Paradox
To: Mr. Lucky
To hear the Marines tell it, the Navy is simply a transportation unit for their use and benefit . . .
I don't have a dog in THAT particular fight. My family are all Regular Army or dogface citizen-soldiers. The last (and only) Navy man was Uncle Henry, who was with Dewey at Manila Bay.
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:24:05 AM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
To: HAL9000
Navy? Boy, that Rummy has quite a bag of tricks......
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:25:54 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(If you can remain calm, you just don't have all the facts.)
Marines operate under the Department of the Navy. If I am correct, the Marines also receive their budget via the Navy.
To: xrp
WE ain't never been happy about it.
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:25:59 AM PST
by
dwilli
To: HAL9000
"the Navy retorted with artillery"
How haughty of them. The Iraqi's pouted.
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:30:36 AM PST
by
Lee Heggy
(I can't believe I forgot to have children!)
To: HAL9000
Cool, did the Navy send a destroyer up the Tigris? Take out a bridge or three with the 5 inchers?
Maybe it was the USMC, technically part of the Navy, but really only dependent on them for transportation, and maybe a little adult supervision now and again.
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:36:25 AM PST
by
jjm2111
To: denydenydeny
Navy = Marines in Babelfishese.
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:37:36 AM PST
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
The Marines are apparantly the Navy's Army.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. ;) If the Navy needs an army, they get an Army.
(steely)
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:40:58 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Semper Fi)
To: xrp
"Marines are (grudgingly) a subsidiary of the Department of the Navy, maybe it was them."
Marines are part of the Department of the Navy - the BEST part.
Semper Fi ...
To: wastoute
Well, guess what's the French term for 'Navy' ;^)
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:47:34 AM PST
by
BMCDA
To: BMCDA
You got me, what?
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:48:28 AM PST
by
wastoute
To: HAL9000
These Babelfish French translations are wonderful!
"But completed we them."...We finished them off.
"...members of the honest militia to Saddam Hussein..."...Well, they're French...;^)
To: xrp
Marines are (grudgingly) a subsidiary of the Department of the Navy, maybe it was them.A bumper sticker for sale at a local gun show read,
"The Marines are a department of the Navy...the men's department"
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posted on
04/01/2003 9:56:02 AM PST
by
Myrddin
To: HAL9000
Fairwinds and Following Seas, GO NAVY!!!
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