Marines battle insurgents in Haditha

Marine Corps Reservists from 1/23 supported by 4th Combat Engineer Battalion engage Insurgents in Haditha. Marines eliminate the insurgents but one vehicle is hit in the ensuing ambush by an RPG and 4 Marines from Charlie Company, 4th Combat Engineer Battalion based out of Baltimore, MD were killed in the vehicle.




The Marines who died honorably serving thier country were Cpl. Christopher Lee Weaver, 24, Virginia Tech Alum; Sgt. Jesse Strong, a Vermont man who was a student at Liberty University in Lynchburg; Cpl. Jonathan Bowling of Stuart; and Lance. Cpl. Karl Linn of Chesterfield. All four were Marine Corps Reservists from Virginia.


"Bullets make the blood flow-blood makes the grass grow, Semper Fi-Do or die, God loves the Corps"

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• iraq
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[lemurdue]

"Insurgents" are what invaders call freedom fighters. The French Resistance and American Indians were "insurgents" too, you know.

[arvydas0069]

@lemurdue Syrians flooding across the border into Al Qaim and moving onto Haditha to terrorize the Iraqi population into following strict Islamic Jihad and declaring a holy war against "the crusaders" is hardly the Sioux Indians vs. The Settlers. Retard. So no, I don't know because your reasoning is jack.

[srflaxu40]

haha nah. is that what they said?  *that may be the cover up, but he got ran over while sleeping in his sleeping bag on a night patrol...

[arvydas0069]

Oh yeah...it was like a week before you guys left too. Thats so horrible. We were like damn that's so horrible....little did we know we were about to get 48 of our own killed. We never had any clue were were about to be the Battalion facing the most combat over that period of time in Iraq. Learned pretty quickly though. My buddy I went tto high school with Brian P. Montgomery wa one of our snipers who were compromised in Barwana. I think that hit home the hardest. We named the highway after him.

[srflaxu40]

the .50 cal fire is my buddy Aston. he died from a freak-accident not too long after this firefight...

[arvydas0069]

truck backed over him after it came out of gear?

[GurnSi]

US post-invasion deaths in Iraq according to the lying Neocon-Nazis: c5000

Real total (including mercenaries and fly-outs of dying grunts to Germany etc): c7,000

Excess post-invasion Iraqi deaths (2006 figures per The Lancet survey, extrapolated to now): c900,000-1,000,000 PLUS ~2,000,000 wounded or refugees.

I know who my tears are for. The overwhelming majority of these Iraqis were non-combatants. They didn't volunteer.

Fucking Nazis....

[Tuigim]

Bullets make the blood flow-blood makes the grass grow?

This is how we win hearts and minds?

SICK

Get out of Iraq now. You have no right to be there.

Your government and your media lied to you.

Patriotism is propaganda.

1,000,000 Iraqis dead for American corporate profits!

[wvufanngarner]

@lemurdue Do you really think Hitler, the Jap's the wop's would have not tried to get into the west? you are a ratard.

[TheJoshclark0331]

I Cpl Clark was the 50 cal gunner on this mission. Aston was the mk 19 gunner. The big flash of light in this video is Aston shooting the transformer above me with the mk 19. I whited out my nvg's and I could not see a thing.

[lemurdue]

@pfcmelsoni

BS, you guys aren't protecting anything except the interests of the rich. There's not one instance in history where the American military has protected American freedom from outside forces.

[lemurdue]

@arvydas0069

Syria is a secular state and has been the refuge of Iraqi Christians who've had to flee their country thanks to the Islamist government that the US installed. Your accusation that "Syrians" are pouring across the border is a myth that was debunked six years ago. It's funny that Syria is a secular state of free religion while thanks to America and the UK, Iraq is now an Islamic state. Laughable.

[paintballallday90]

@GurnSi yess sirrr im a nazi because i serve my country

[CAallday209]

rip marines.

[lojihugyftdrse]

Maybe you have PTSD or are suffering from guilt.