One Marine: A Model Approach

[BabiMizzCherri]

I know Rakene personally....He is more than wonderful to his country. He is the nicest guy you will ever meet. Thanks again Roc for supporting your country!

[OakIslandBandit]

@BabiMizzCherri Tell Rakene,he made my day! Outstanding Marine!

[jakjaknix]

Almost everything that the mass media shows about the war is something negative.

[jakjaknix]

@truthlogic1 Seriously!!?!?? You can find plenty of videos portraying NATO troops falling victim to IED's. An

[aanathan0]

Now that Sgt. Is an extremely diciplined and polite soldier. This is a PROFESSIONAL soldier. The highest quality and a standard for fellow americans. Only good mothers and the ARMY can produce such a fine quality individual.

[sebass03]

@aanathan0 hes a marine a professional marine that the USMC trained

[aanathan0]

@sebass03 Marines included.

[AirCavRulz]

Michael , without heroes like you we would never see things like this.

Hoorah!

[LolCaramelz]

Rofl Iraq is weak shit.

[Vinny86100]

@LolCaramelz so weak it claimed the lives of thousands of american troops and hundreds of british troops!! think before you write ignorant comments

[kmklover]

@LolCaramelz I'd like to see you walk down that road for 10 minutes without shitting yourself

[ghost4085]

@LolCaramelz opk you walk around with bout 20 to 30 pounds of gear if ur lucky machine gunners carrie a 50 pound gun so u go do that i would but i cant im only 13 and ur weak man i hate u peple downing the only thing keeping us free

[LolCaramelz]

@ghost4085

How are these guys walking around In Iraw shooting at militia members keeping us free?

[sergiopiece]

semper fi to this leather neck outstanding leadrship skills

[ibonki9]

lee def has his shit together seems like a great leader

[jbailey41]

Blue Force Tracker in the Humvee

[GruntTGH]

Micheal you have done and continue to do amazing work.

[Czerniakowska]

To be frank, I couldn'tt see Sergeant Lee making it as a model. He'd need to lose a lot of weight and learn to walk in such a way as to show off to their best effect whatever clothes he was modelling. Maybe Ralph Lauren or Valentino could use him for the occasional charity lingerie and swimwear show, but I'm not even sure he'd be right for that. Couldn't he just stay with the military and give up his dream of catwalk fame?

[famouslystraped85]

m16a4

[degrotepeter]

thought they wear paintball guns over there

[famouslystraped85]

huhuhuh

[MrBillTroop73]

May God bless you all.

Thank you for protecting us.

Bill

[jetguy13]

"Whos payin you?" "They are" "Good point but c'mon" LOL. Your the best of the best in your field micheal, love your book, thank you.

[pcsbyte]

Eyes and Hands, Eyes And Hands. Then listen to anyone talk. Hands first then Eyes.

Eyes will tell you Allot.

[pcsbyte]

big time language barrier.

[XxXxDTxXxX]

i gotta admit that the yanks do have the kit see that SSGT's body armour jesus our brit BA is sh!t compared to that stuff, but

[ezykinster]

Marines are not called soldiers

[robotbeez]

what are they, then? Bakers?

[Ratpoo0]

They are Marines being called a soldier is a insult.

[phillyguy413]

We dont booby trap holes cause some kid,or family or anyone that has nothing to with a insurgency come by and hurt them.We do care about people..

[mullers88]

not really y place 2 judge but he seems like the leader you would want out there

[SamFreedom]

Why don't the US troops booby trap some of the holes? Make the insurgents think twice when they go back to use an old hole (like their wives).

[PJYost38]

Because then when they get blown up we get accused of murder. We can barely kill the enemy at all without the bleeding heart liberals having a cow. Imagine the press hearing about us booby-trapping holes. We would be worse than Hitler to them.

[SamFreedom]

Understood and agreed. They'd give us the worn out lunatic liberal logic, "If we do that, then it means we're no better than they are..." because they have no concept that REAL WAR is not like a pussy jr high school argument.

[greencell0]

@SamFreedom We would get in a shitton of trouble.

[SamFreedom]

@greencell0 Its called "Spec Ops", man, you know this... find THEIR weapons cache and boobytrap it so that it can't go off by kids playing on the pile or an old man's goat taking a shit on it. Then, if innocents die, its not because we booby-trapped it.. .its because the fuckers were caching explosives in civilian areas.

[SamFreedom]

@greencell0 thats ok, that's where you have a few good soldiers take the fall for it and free them several years down the road... look, they just freed the fucker who blew up the lockerbie flight over scotland... said it was due to compassion. Well, its time to fuck the rules

[ToddinMT]

Sdbolts11: I am. MY $50 and everybody else who donates to him on his site.

[danesaregreat]

The Rest of America should see How difficult this is. The ISF are getting trained to do the Job. They Will Remember who Trained them to Keep their country. With God's help Give Them Liberty and Freedom to pass on to the next Generation. I just Hope and that the "Dem's" do not Stop this from just a Dream to the real deal for Iraq. So many Americans thought this was Important to die for ...we must see this to the End and Give Iraq Liberty.

God Bless the Marines and SSG Lee.

[Texaspsue]

Michael...your stories and videos are so beautiful. Thank you!!

SSG Rankene Lee  is a Great American Hero and makes us proud!!!

[Texaspsue]

woops, I spelled the SSG's name wrong. Once again......

SSG Rakene Lee is a Great American Hero!

[keithtechmeier]

its SSGT

[panjshir07]

Great video Michael. I have heard many stories about the brave Iraqis working bomb disposal. They are truely Heros. Also great video of the Marine organizing the efforts, he is also a great Hero to us all.

Keep up the great work. I really liked the recent articles "Ghosts of Anbar" with quotes from the COIN Manual. I will be linking this video and the articles "One Marine" and "Ghosts of Anbar".

Best Wishes,

Ian Bach

ianbach dot com

[otterlives]

Great footage Michael! Thank you!

Our Armed Forces are outstanding and have done

so much to not only protect the U.S. and its interests but also are working to ensure a future for all Iraqis. God bless our Marines! SSG Rakene Lee is an American Hero! One of many.

It really suxs that the mainstream media will not show our troops as they really are! Thank you Michael Yon for giving our troops a voice in the media!

Stay as safe as possible over there.

[GlobalDefenseGroup]

Thank you so much for the excellent work you are doing.

By presenting the unvarnished truth about this war, you do a great service to America. You do this at no small risk to yourself, and it is deeply appreciated.

The professionalism shown by these soldiers under such stressful conditions does credit to themselves and the entire Coalition.

Kafir

Administrator, Global Defense Group

[NaughtyCat20]

thanks Micheal great job

[geyser]

Thanks for this...

[OptimusGonzoo]

well now all we need are a few hundred more Michael Yon's to film the hundreds of Marines like SSG Lee who do their duty every day to train the ISF. keep up the good work Michael

[gerry301]

You have no idea how well this plays. We need this type of reporting in the US.

[OldSchoolz86]

Nice work.

[xmanifestx]

Awesome!! HOOAH SSG Rakene Lee!... Kudo's to you Michael.

[sklanger]

SSG Rakene Lee - American hero.

[5carroll]

Great work, Michael! Even better work by SSG Lee. I'm glad both you guys are there doing the work you're doing.