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July 11, 2004
2/4 Marines featured on FOX tonight
Carrie, mother of a future Marine and married to a currently deployed Marine notes that tonight's FOX broadcast of War Stories with Oliver North will feature 2/4 Marines from the 1 MEF:
During the first phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom, columns of Army and Marine armor raced toward Baghdad. But after the fall of Saddam's regime, the nature of combat changed. Foreign terrorists flooded into Iraq and allied themselves with former regime Baathist loyalists to instigate an insurgency. Out here, soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines refer to this phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom as "the second semester of war."In this gripping episode of “War Stories with Oliver North,” we go door to door in “Operation Sheik It Up.” On these dangerous foot patrols in Ar Ramadi, the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force or "1 Mef," tracks hidden weapons and terrorists. You’ll also hear from soldiers and Marines as to what they are doing to win the hearts and minds of a hostile population.
But as dangerous as all of these tasks are — and as challenging as they have become — the soldiers and Marines are up to the task of protecting Iraq’s fledgling democracy. This is their story, about those young Americans serving on the front lines, in the War on Terror.
Carrie comments:
A side note on 2/4. The Magnificent Bastards have had one helluva time in Ar Rammadi. April was a deadly month for them and I am sure that you'll recall the letter that Lt.Col Paul Kennedy and his XO wrote home to the wives and families.Echo Co., 2/4 has sustained the heaviest losses, I believe, in the entire 1st Marine Division. When CNN decided to run pictures of ambushed Marines last month, 3 of them were from this unit.
It's on at 8:00 p.m., EDT. Set your VCRs.
Posted by Deb at July 11, 2004 11:19 AM
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Carrie, My son is also a marine with this unit.I missed the show. Any chance of getting a tape of it?
Posted by: Anna Warner at July 12, 2004 03:54 AM
Carrie,
My son is also with the 2/4. I also misses it. Is there any way to view it?
Thank You,
Charayne Reed
Posted by: Charayne Reed at July 13, 2004 02:33 AM
MY NEPHEW PFC CHRISTOPHER D. MABRY, WAS KIA IN RAMADI ON 4-7-2004. WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM ANYONE WHO SERVED WITH HIM AND MAYBE HAD SOME PICTURES OF HIM. WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO GIVE ALL OUR LOVE AND PRAYERS TO OUR TROOPS STILL IN IRAQ. MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND KEEP YOU SAFE. THANK YOU, MRS. FRANKIE MABRY WOODALL 12577 HWY 80 WEST CCHUNKY, MISS. 39323
Posted by: MRS. FRANKIE MABRY WOODALL at September 27, 2004 07:32 PM