Grim's Hall has some interesting snippets of news from Iraq:
[T]he Ramadi front is designed to take heat off Falluja.... [A Moblie Assault Platoon] was called to provide relief to ' X.' XXXX says that as they moved up, the rags were performing disciplined, as he calls it, "bounding fire and movement---they knew what they were doing---even when we knocked them back, they were 'bounding.'"
My son called yesterday afternoon to describe his day of training. His company was doing MOUT training in abandoned base housing, practicing urban fighting skills. He said the guys had watched video footage of fighting in Fallujah and Ramadi with great interest - some of the insurgents were actually sighting in and aiming their weapons, indicating that they'd received some training along the line.
Here's another excerpt:
Your husbands were awesome all night they stayed at the job of securing the streets and nobody challenged them as the hours wore on. They did not surrender an inch nor did flinch from the next potential threat. Previous to yesterday the terrorist thought that we were soft enough to challenge. As of tonight the message is loud and clear that the Marines will not be beaten. Today the enemy started all over again, although with far fewer numbers, only now the rest of the battalion joined the fight. Without elaborating too much, weapons company and Golf crushed their attackers with the vengeance of the righteous.
This e-mail, evidently written to the wives of Marines fighting in Ramadi, shows once again that there is no better trained fighting force in the world than the USMC. Oohrah!
Posted by Deb at April 18, 2004 02:14 PM | TrackBack