Troops Get Pep Talk as Battle for Marjah Gets Underway in Afghanistan
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Hmmm?
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11. good for you
12. I don't ask for it and majority of Marines don't either... they bleed for it. And they know that plenty of American civilians respect them for it. No need for a foreigner to understand.
13. huh?
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9. okay?
10. I don't think any Marine would care if you respect them or not. I know what i did there. You don't. I physically saw with my own eyes schools being built there that finally allowed little girls their education. Tell me something that you helped do that was more significant in your life?
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7. we have set a base for the village and only the people can decide what to do with it.
8. If 15 civilians died per 20 Taliban then half of the 80,000 people in Marjah would be dead. Again pulling numbers from your ass.
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5. 17 Marines in my unit during our 6 months there. Times that number by 10 and you probably have a rough estimate of the number of insurgent fighters that were killed.
6. Again, were you personally there to see the fight? Did you know how strict our roe was. How we almost always got denied air support because there was a damn building in a 100 meter radius? The Taliban did not care. They would launch their rpgs at any direction no matter what the potential damage could result in
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1. Your opinion is not worth while since you havent visited Marjah
2. In the 6 months our unit has been in Marjah there have been four civilian deaths in Marjah due to NATO forces... times that number by atleast 5 and you got the civilian deaths caused by the Taliban.
3. What?
4. No, The civilian population fears change. They were used to a set life even if they knew it was harsh on them. Propaganda from the Taliban makes them fear change.
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its as if your respect means any weight to a U.S. Marine
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@aviomaster and btw afghanis have been fighting along with the chechens in there homeland for yrs and are the biggest outside supporters of a chechen islamic caliphate in the caucasus. So uh...........yeah.
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@aviomaster why? They're just as imperialist as any western nation. If they do its only to use afghans as cannon fodder no different then during the soviet era.
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SEMPER FI!!
Get some Marines! Kill all those fuckers!!!!!!!!
Patty1917 2 years ago 7
good luck to 3/6. 2/6 and 1/8 will be right behind u soon
DHAZ14 2 years ago 4