Stranded Marines Fight To Last Bullets

London Times ^ | April 16, 2004 | James Hider

[Meldrim]

...and the reason the tanks showed up is that now it is George Bush's Marine Corps and not Bill Clinton's army...

[bandleader]

MEGA DITTOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bandleader]

Tell That To Slick Willy!He refused to beef-up the armament for those guys he sent to Mogadishu to capture one of bin Laden's A**HOLES!!!!!!!!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Way to go Marines.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Amazing account of our awesome Marines in action. Blurry screen alert!

In the midst of the firefight, with the armoured vehicle’s munitions blowing up, an ambulance pulled up. The Marines thought they were being rescued. Instead, 15 men with RPGs jumped out and started firing.

The Americans were almost out of bullets. An Iraqi round hit a kitchen pipe and gas started whistling out as RPGs slammed into the building.

A guerrilla burst through the gate with an RPG and was shot dead. Another tried to follow and was wounded.

“Then the men started shouting that they could hear tanks..."

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Related:

http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040414202633.pngrttm6.html

 

WAR.WIRE

US marine officer recounts dramatic rescue in Fallujah

 

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) Apr 14, 2004

A US marine officer described Wednesday how his troops battled into the heart of Fallujah and killed some 20 insurgents to save a group of fellow soldiers.

"We definitely stumbled into a wasp's nest," Captain Jason Smith of the First Battalion-Fifth Marine's Bravo company said of the four-hour rescue launched around 4:00 pm (1200 GMT) Tuesday.

"There's definitely a lot more organized resistance out there," he said, adding that he believed his troops had killed some 20 fighters.

Smith described how two Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV) had tried to flush out snipers just beyond their lines in southeastern Fallujah, a Sunni Muslim bastion where a shaky five-day-old truce was extended for 48 hours Wednesday despite US air strikes and heavy clashes.

However, the mission went awry when the insurgents hit the AAVs with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), Smith said.

Desperate to escape the onslaught, one of the AAVs sped deep into the city's hostile southwestern area -- further than any marine platoon had ventured.

Between 50 and 100 insurgents starting firing RPGs and small arms at the errant AAV, whose engine burst into flames.

The 20 men inside the US vehicle took shelter in a house and set up defensive positions with M-16 assault rifles and SAW and GOLF machineguns, Smith said.

Rebels fired RPGs and lobbed hand grenades inside the house and the marines frantically threw them back out, Smith said.

The stricken AAV sent up a column of grey smoke into the sky, which the rescue team -- about 30 marines in six armoured humvees from a quick reaction force and four tanks -- used to locate its position.

Around 700 Iraqis, and more than 80 US soldiers, have been killed in fighting in Iraq over the past nine days, mostly in and around Fallujah.

All rights reserved. Copyright 2003 Agence France-

[PLOM...NOT!]

And I'm reading this from the London Times and not an American newspaper because...????

[Aeronaut]

Geez I get a rush reading this. I am so proud of those Marines. The rags don't have a chance.

[sean327]

Your reading this from a Brit paper because our so called American papers are selling the "New Viet Nam" line, and this would blow their adgenda completely out of the water.

[MeekOneGOP]

[NYCop]

[valkyrieanne]

Fallujah.
delenda.
est.

[JeeperFreeper]

Dear K: The Washington Post article today (by Pamela Constable) makes it clear these Marines( the stranded and rescuers were 1/5). Alpha, my son's co., had the react platoon that went to the house. The Old Corps,those Marines of Belleau Wood, Iwo Jima, Chosin, and RVN(Sorry, K, you are now Old Corps thanks to Father Time, the bastard) would be proud of these Marines. The Corps still makes Marines like they used to. Semper Fi

[kellynla]

Glad to hear that the "Fighting Fifth" is still taking care of business. :-]

The "Fighting Fifth" Marines, the most decorated infantry regiment in the United State Marine Corps!

God bless your son and all those fine men and women in the armed services who are fighting for freedom.

Semper Fi,
Kelly
"The Old Guard"...but always prepared to "adapt, improvise and overcome!"

[Rose in RoseBear]

Pingpingping!

[Dead Corpse]

Lump in the throat Semper Fi Bump.

[Turbo Pig]

These are brave Marines that survived the onslaught of Islamofacist savages outnumbering them.

Actually, I read it the other way around. Poor dumb jihadis; they didn't bring enough people to the fight. Quite a few of them should give thanks that the tanks showed up and scared them away, or they would have died at the hands of these 15.

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[shield]

Great Post....

[rightandproudofit]

Exactly! Spread the word. John Kerry is a NTAC, No Talent Ass Clown!

[SAMWolf]

With all the firepower we can bring to bear, these situations shoiuld not be happening. Do a Dresen on Falluja.