Posted on 11/08/2004 8:39:55 AM PST by epluribus_2
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - More than 4,000 U.S. Marines and Army troops punched their way into northeastern Fallujah on Monday, kicking off a massive assault dubbed Operation Phantom Fury that seeks to put an end to half a year of insurgent control of the Sunni Muslim city.
The prelude to the assault on the Askari neighborhood was a crushing air and artillery bombardment of the city that rose to a crescendo by Monday evening, with U.S. strike jets dropping bombs around the clock and big guns pounding the city every few minutes with high-explosive shells.
Meanwhile, insurgents in Baghdad and nearby Ramadi tried to keep up the pressure on the coalition forces with new attacks, including one on a Catholic church in the capital.
Earlier Monday U.S. troops had fought their way into the city's western outskirts, seizing two bridges over the Euphrates River and helping Iraqi soldiers take the city's main hospital in the first stage of a major assault on the insurgent stronghold.
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they finished laying the pipe, but the concrete walkway looks like a loser...
now the guy in the trench is pulling the old "help me out trick" and is going to yank in the other guy with the Lance Armstrong bracelet...crazy terrorists!....
Meanwhile, the guy in the back is singing, "Sunrise, Sunset...Sunrise, Sunset...."
ROTFL!!
thanks, I get nervous waiting for news of the attack...waiting for Scarborough and Gen. Franks...
Somebody said Tommy Franks on Scarborough Country...MSNBC...now.
Thanks....just saw that too..
you mean that powerful letter of rightous indignation (and rightfully so) wrote by Cee-gar man's wife? yes.. that was when i realized that beautiful grinning Marine had been wounded.. (i'm pretty new here). her letter was awesome..
have you heard how they are doing? Cee-gar man still has some vision correct? it would break my heart to think of him blind...
by the way... i just bought some cigars for a Marine in the 1/3rd there in Fallujah... keep him in prayer.. Jordan. .. another cigar man. sending enough to share.
Mark
night bump
by the way... i just bought some cigars for a Marine in the 1/3rd there in Fallujah... keep him in prayer.. Jordan. .. another cigar man. sending enough to share.
The 1/3rd is out of where?
Alright, I want the story on Cigar Guy. I always thought he was just a military man caught on camera. I had no idea that he was a Freeper, nor that you knew his life experiences.
All I know, is that I put his pic as my screen saver all during the war to lift my spirits.
that's great to know! i'm sure they will be fine.. God bless them. thanks for the update..
what do you mean "out of where"? .. i know he did basic in Ca, and then was in Hawaii for some time on a ocean rescue training.. they went to Japan for a while and then to Iraq a little over a month ago... his AP is 96607.. does that help?
i really don't know anything ,, except for the letter posted here that was wrote by his wife.. i believe she posted it herself.. about her husband's image being used in that fraud "documentry" (which i have never seen).. it was reading that thread that i learned about Cee-gar man. i searched for the thread for you but cannot find it .. sorry.
maybe someone else can shed more light on it for you..
placing bookmark on thread
Do you know if Jordan is based at Camp Pendleton?
i sent you a private on that..
Wow - awesome pics!
thanks for the link!
Sorry to burst your bubble- but a friend of mine forwarded me a (non-classified) report from the folks that build them. An RPG round in the right spot will penetrate the flank armor and set the hydraulics on fire. Also, a good ol' Molotov cocktail on the engine deck can set it on fire. Also, 25mm depleted uranium rounds (like from a BTR's or BMP's autocannon) will likewise penetrate the flank or rear turret armor at close range. I would guess that a sabot round from an ex-Soviet Rapier 100mm antitank gun could also do the trick. The Abrams is the best tank in the world, but any tank is a tradeoff between speed, armor protection and firepower. The Abrams will do almost sixty miles an hour flat out and fire accurately while doing it. IMHO we need a slower, cheaper, much heavier armored tank for urban warfare.
yes, I remember that .. Sometimes it was so intense,hundreds of posts came up in minutes.. other times there were nights/days of lull & we would ramble about belly girl, minarets, cooking whips; ceegar guy; sad Daschle;hot reporters; old Broad Beam; Is Hussein dead/alive? etc.
The various pressers were the best with Tommy Franks slapping down the idiots that were there
I saved many of the threads from situation room but I think there are other ways to find them. For any that missed them here is one..(you can find move via links at beginning in this one)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/888599/posts
Thanks Jim. she is a cutie & brought much conversation & laughs.. me, I prefer Ceegar Cuy !!!
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