I MEF MARINE KILLED IN AL ANBAR PROVINCE # 1350

[saigon68]

January 6, 2005
Release Number: 05-01-08C




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050108.txt

I MEF MARINE KILLED IN AL ANBAR PROVINCE

CAMP FALLUJAH -- A Marine assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action on Jan. 6, while conducting security and stability operations in the Al Anbar Province.

The name of the deceased is being withheld pending next of kin notification.

I asualties Confirms as # 1350 http://icasualties.org/oif/

[DS1]

1. Sounds like foot patrol if no roadside bomb was mentioned

"security and stability" indeed

*sigh*

[saigon68]

2. NO THEY ARE KICKING ASS WITH HUGE MOAIEDs

THE MOTHER OF ALL IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES.

We told them weeks ago that ARMOR on a HUMVEE was useless against this type of device and what happens----

The overpressure of 3000 pounds of C-4 will turn everyone inside a BRADLEY OR HUMVEE INTO JELLO.

[DS1]

3. You'd best be behind about 3 feet of Abrams armor to survive

some of those blasts.

The shit I'm seeing on TV makes the stuff the Russians were driving over in the Balkans look like overzealous party favors.

Still, this guy was probably killed by a boobytrap.

[Erika]

4. I now have 2 Marine nephews

in Iraq. Gung ho kids who thought this was the way to go. It may be.

With Bush's cut in Pell grants and new jobs being low-pay jobs, more kids will be suckered into W's war.

The elites won't send their kids.

[Just Me]

5. But for the coup by the neoCONimperialists,this wouldn't have happened.n/t

[Hobarticus]

6. At what point will the bodycount in Iraq surpass that of 9/11?

I'm not gloating over our tragic losses, but fer chrissakes, is that what it'll take to make America WTFU?

[YolandaMartinez]

7. It's bad enough to lose them in Iraq...

Why does it have to happen in Rhode Island too? :(

[Erika]

8. I check one site each day

It's www.icasualties.org.