Major battle in Baghdad, says CNN--perhaps 23 Marines casulaties

CNN TV | 4/10/2003 | Scott Nelson

[Coop]

Thanks for the link. I indeed erred in not considering 4th MARDIV.

[IGOTMINE]

No sweat, Bro. I didn't see it was you with the original post.

The 23rd Marines are HQ'ed out of California, but have units spread all over the west and midwest. Colonel Barnes, a former Command and Staff College instructor and a MOOSE of a man, is their CO. He is high on my list of "guys I would not mess with in a dark alley."

[Kadric]

While the embedded reporters are a good idea, I believe next time around they need to teach basic english and military terminology.

[Kadric]

While the embedded reporters are a good idea, I believe next time around they need to teach basic english and military terminology.

[george wythe]

23 casualties does not mean 23 dead.

Casualty = Dead + Injured

[Liberal Classic]

Yes, It is (or was, when I was a member in the 1970's) a Reserve infantry Battalion, with units in Houston and Corpus Christi, Texas. Don't know if they were activated and deployed to Iraq.

That's my reserve unit, too. I do know that some reserve Marine units are there now. I do not know if all battalions are there at the moment, but I know 2nd Battalion is there since I've seen them on the news. I think that 1st and 3rd are on standby at 29 Stumps. I think one Bn from the 24th Regiment is in Kuwait now, also.

Semper Fi

[MarketR]

The best we can hope for is to control their bestial tendencies by means of force -- we will never be able to teach them to be civilized people.

Watching the Iraqi mobs roaming the streets of Baghdad reminded me of the final, climactic scene of the movie, "The Island of Dr. Moreau" -- a spectacle of primal behavior unleashed.

This has got to be the most ignorant thing I've read on this board in the past few days.

Seems to me I've seen this behavior before...every year when the losing city of the World Series decides it's better to destroy your home than to live with the loss of a GAME!

For that matter, it seems to happen every time any major sporting event concludes. Beastial tendancies indeed!

[MattGarrett]

Screw this protect the Mosque crap. Let's go in and be done with it.

[MarketR]

Why...Where are they going to go.

I say just surround the place and let them sit and stew long and hard about all the ways they may be killed in the next few days as they run out of water and food.

I think we should get the speakers going and let them know we'll be turning them over to the Shia...hehehehe

[FRgal4u]

yea, we can't shoot back to the mosque...no god..

too bad that we can't use tear gas or other non-lethal gas attacks in a firefight...otherwise, throw in a few tear gas canisters and smoke them out...shoot them like a wild turkey shoot as soon as they get out...

hell, if things are getting bad enough, and we can't use tear gas, maybe we can shoot a few hornet's nests into the mosque...see how long they can hide in there...lol..

[OldFriend]

casualty versus fatality..........one has to listen carefully, but the media cares not to clarify.

[pickemuphere]

While the embedded reporters are a good idea, I believe next time around they need to teach basic english and military terminology.

Why do we need embedded reporters teaching basic English and military terminology?

[OldFriend]

They are surrounded, how do you suggest we get them to stop shooting at us?

[US_MilitaryRules]

LA Times just called for a heck of a deal on a subscription, I said they were to to biased and the guy didn't even call me on it. They usally try 5 times to get you to say yes. He must be getting a lot of this. HAHAHHAHAH

[MarketR]

how do you suggest we get them to stop shooting at us?

First, the only way they're going to stop shooting at our boys is if they're dead.

The Marines have been conducting walking patrols, in force. They stumbled into a "hornets nest" of fire from this mosque and clearly took some casualties. Now, you wouldn't just storm in and take more..you lay back and keep the place under constant surveilance. Bring up your snipers and pick them off one by one until they decide they are going to give up, or pull a Butch Cassidy.

Personnally, I'm hoping they try the latter. In those few seconds before they die, they won't believe the wall of hot metal darkening the sky coming at them.

[CHICAGOFARMER]

nothing pisses me off more that some ass who posts a headline to be first and the information is inaccurate.

23 marines dead.

Get real man confirm your info before you post.