Photos - US Marines use LCUs to evacuate Americans from Lebanon

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[COEXERJ145]

We should only be bringing non-Muslims back, citizen or not!

Pretty bigoted statement you just made.

[CindyDawg]

And the Sailors watching over them:')

[ladyjane]

You don't know why she is wearing a chador. She may have had to travel through an area where kidnapping was a threat.

[3catsanadog]

Love these pic's! God bless our troops and American citizens!

[jazusamo]

Thanks for the great post.

[FreedomPoster]

I would have expected to see LCACs used instead of LCUs, for greater speed and capacity.

Whatever works, though.

Nice pics, thanks for the post.

[CindyDawg]

I bet that was awesome floating into the mother ship. How does that work?

[usmcobra]

They never had Navy Corpsman that looked that good when I was in the Marines.

[rawhide]

Hey, there is a 91 year old in there , with the kids, trying to figure that thing out too:')

Good eye, I missed that.

[rawhide]

A Lebanese special forces policeman, carrying an American citizen with an injured foot, boards an LCU (Landing Craft Utility) at a beach in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 21, 2006, as American Navy sailors help others to be taken to the USS Trenton, which will evacuate 2,000 Americans to Cyprus. The United States prepared to ship about 5,000 Americans from Beirut Friday to nearly complete the evacuation of its citizens from Lebanon as the international exodus reached a peak. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

God bless this Lebanese special forces policeman.

[M0sby]

This is an AMAZING THREAD!
THANK YOU FOR POSTING IT!
I have a question about this

"A Lebanese soldier carries a baby on board an LCU (Landing Craft Utility) from a beach in Beirut, Lebanon. Around 1,200 people are to be taken by LCU to the USS Nashville, and transported to Cyprus, Thursday July 20, 2006. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)"

 

 

 

That's an amazing picture...

Can anyone tell me what the baby is IN?

[CindyDawg]

It must be really hard, leaving their families and friends behind.

[R. Scott]

I bet that was awesome floating into the mother ship. How does that work?

The “mother ship” – at one time an LSD – floods ballast tanks and the aft end sinks several feet lower. The stern gate is then opened and the LCU floats in.

[rawhide]

Thanks so much for posting these pictures, dennisw. They are great. Makes me proud to be an American!

[rawhide]

Looks like a bassinet to me?

[CindyDawg]

My son would laugh at me. He's on one of these. Amazing , some of the stuff we have.

[R. Scott]

I was impressed with them too – but being Army, we only went into the LSDs on training exercises. Anywhere we went we sailed on our own, this was from Hampton Roads to as far north as Maine and as far South as Puerto Rico and the Gulf Coast of Central America.

[Shooter 2.5]

I'll raise you one that's loaded.

[opbuzz]

Good pics, too bad the captions suck so bad.

They can't tell a Marine from a sailor, and don't realize that there is no such thing as a Navy "medic".

[JimRed]

Pretty bigoted statement you just made.

Bigoted? You'd better believe it! They have brought it upon themselves by their behavior, particularly their refusal to stand up and call for an end to terrorism.

I will never trust a Muslim because their "holy" book requires them to lie for the advancement of Islam.

All non-citizen Muslims should have been deported starting 9/12/01, and all mosques should have been under 24 hour surveillance ever since then.

That sort of bigotry is merely self preservation.