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I was in the fight. I was at Barwana on 3 August 2005. I was two vehicles back from the AAV that blew up. I felt the heat of the blast on my face. I saw the bodies of the two insurgents my weapons platoon killed as they seized the Barwana Bridge. I directed the F-18 to drop a 500lbs bomb on a house across the Euphrates that killed 5 insurgents. I saw the video from my tank section of them killing 8 insurgents across the Euphrates in Haqlaniyah from Barwana with their M2.50Cal Machinegun. I talked with the Operations Officer of 3/2 on how many insurgents they killed. Conservatively it was 40 total between 3/25 and 3/2. You honestly do not think for one minute that the insurgents are super-human and invincible, do you? They bleed and die like anyone else and we are pretty good at killing them. |
I was in the fight. I was at Barwana on 3 August 2005. I was two vehicles back from the AAV that blew up. I felt the heat of the blast on my face. I saw the bodies of the two insurgents my weapons platoon killed as they seized the Barwana Bridge. I directed the F-18 to drop a 500lbs bomb on a house across the Euphrates that killed 5 insurgents. I saw the video from my tank section of them killing 8 insurgents across the Euphrates in Haqlaniyah from Barwana with their M2.50Cal Machinegun. I talked with the Operations Officer of 3/2 on how many insurgents they killed. Conservatively it was 40 total between 3/25 and 3/2. You honestly do not think for one minute that the insurgents are super-human and invincible, do you? They bleed and die like anyone else and we are pretty good at killing them. |
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I don't understand how a twenty-man skirmish/ambush lasted two days... [[User:Sherurcij|Sherurcij]] <sup>([[User_talk:Sherurcij|Speaker for the Dead]]) </sup> 07:53, 11 December 2006 (UTC) |
I don't understand how a twenty-man skirmish/ambush lasted two days... [[User:Sherurcij|Sherurcij]] <sup>([[User_talk:Sherurcij|Speaker for the Dead]]) </sup> 07:53, 11 December 2006 (UTC) |
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I was in the fight. I was at Barwana on 3 August 2005. I was two vehicles back from the AAV that blew up. I felt the heat of the blast on my face. I saw the bodies of the two insurgents my weapons platoon killed as they seized the Barwana Bridge. I directed the F-18 to drop a 500lbs bomb on a house across the Euphrates that killed 5 insurgents. I saw the video from my tank section of them killing 8 insurgents across the Euphrates in Haqlaniyah from Barwana with their M2.50Cal Machinegun. I talked with the Operations Officer of 3/2 on how many insurgents they killed. Conservatively it was 40 total between 3/25 and 3/2. You honestly do not think for one minute that the insurgents are super-human and invincible, do you? They bleed and die like anyone else and we are pretty good at killing them.
Where do you get your information? New York Times, MSNBC? None of those guys were with us. I was the commanding officer of Lima Company, 3/25 and I know. Just because it is not in the media, does not mean it did not happen. Eyewitness testimony should count. No offense but, I honestly do not remember any of the authors of this article who rejected my edits as being in Barwana, Iraq unless they were insurgents we missed.
Oh, one final thing, if you want to talk the Battle of Hadithah here are the real dates: March 2003 - Present. What is reported in this article is not factual. I lost the AAV, my 14 Marines, and my terp Neal in Barwana on 3 August 2005. We had just commenced Operation Quick Strike (3-11 August 2005). We were never in Hadithah and what did happen in Hadithah was part of Quick Strike.
Tinian6 (User_talk:Tinian6) 13:32, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
I don't understand how a twenty-man skirmish/ambush lasted two days... Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 07:53, 11 December 2006 (UTC)