The War in Iraq, despite what the media and democrats would lead you to believe, is nearly over and we have won (despite the best efforts of the media to lose it and the democrats to surrender to our enemies).
However, the war in Afghanistan rages on and there are still a lot of battles being fought.
Like this group of 30 United States Marines who were ambushed by 250 insurgents in the Bala Baluk district.
If 30 against 250 sounds like an unfair fight — you’re right. It was unfair. For the insurgents:
“The biggest thing to take from that day is what Marines can accomplish when they’re given the opportunity to fight,” the sniper said. “A small group of Marines met a numerically superior force and embarrassed them in their own backyard. The insurgents told the townspeople that they were stronger than the Americans, and that day we showed them they were wrong.”
During the battle, the designated marksman single handedly thwarted a company-sized enemy RPG and machinegun ambush by reportedly killing 20 enemy fighters with his devastatingly accurate precision fire. He selflessly exposed himself time and again to intense enemy fire during a critical point in the eight-hour battle for Shewan in order to kill any enemy combatants who attempted to engage or maneuver on the Marines in the kill zone. What made his actions even more impressive was the fact that he didn’t miss any shots, despite the enemies’ rounds impacting within a foot of his fighting position.
I’m telling you — don’t mess with the Marines. They will kill you. With near perfect precision and deadly accuracy.
“I didn’t realize how many bad guys there were until we had broken through the enemies’ lines and forced them to retreat. It was roughly 250 insurgents against 30 of us,” the corporal said. “It was a good day for the Marine Corps. We killed a lot of bad guys, and none of our guys were seriously injured.”
And it was a good day for America. Unless you’re a military-hating Libtard rooting for America to lose the War on Terror.
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Good hunting, Marines!
Since the inception of the Squad Designated Marksman program in the Army, and in the USMC, the lethality of the smallest units have been enhanced.
In the USMC, the DMR is a modified M-14, based on 1940′s technology, as it is a select fire, magazine fed variant of the venerable M-1 Garand rifle, of WWII fame.
Here is an article on the history of the M-14 to the DMR.
For the average citizen, and for the mufsideen or other bad guys, it’s important to know, that all Marines are marksmen. The motivation of a traditional “Devil Dog” cannot be questioned.
While you guys sit over here and breath your own exhaust, some conservatives are taking issue with such folly:
[Editor --- Sigh. Education? You do know that the sad state of our country's educational system is a direct result of liberal policies, labor unions, and...well, Liberalism? You do understand that right? And there is nothing wrong with our nation's health care system. It's the best in the entire world. Now, we do have a problem with the insurance industry, but that is not the same thing. And universal, single payer health care will do nothing but make getting health care worse harder for everybody.]
Pat can’t resist trying to tinkle on any thread in praise of our wonderful military.
Pat, what you need is porn, and lots of it.
GOT WAR PORN?
It’s H.E. fun.
fugh pat, pats a fuk……….with that said,
WAY TO GO MARINES!!!! Thank you again for all that you do. God bless and keep kicking major ass.
again, fugh pat, pats a fuk.
There’s almost no serious analysis of health care reform, urban planning, education, and many other issues that regularly crop up on the best lefty blogs
does anyone get what point this idiot is trying to make? How does he have so much time to spend trolling when has has A BIG IMPORTANT LIFE?
ya’ll splain it to me, Ise jess to dum to git it.
It starts with guzinta.. head guz into rear, knot guz inta knot, tymez 2. use knot dum, use jest dunt get guzinta. am sur pat, iz rel impotant. cuz pat spens alot of tyme on the wwwinternets.
Thanks TLP, it is all clearer now.
I just could not figure out why patty was making some obtuse point as to why we do not spend more time on conservative blogs discussing the merits of income redistribution and government intervention. He, she or it, whatever pat is, used a cut and paste from a leftist blog to make some point.
Artruen,
It’s that, and also that he is compelled to derail or tinkle on any military threads posted here.
He wishes us all to be as maladaptive and insecure as he.
Editor – here you simply amplify Joyner’s point about rehashing the arguments of the 1980s election, all while the rest of the electorate yawns while they pas you by. It’s Example A of why the GOP has been banished to Hatfield and McCoy country for the next 2 generations.
He, she or it, whatever pat is, used a cut and paste from a leftist blog to make some point.
See Artie, unlike you and the other jumping beans who comment here, I frequent many blogs and sites that contain opinions I strongly disagree with. How else would I know what you wingntuts were up to? And what’s the point of posting comments in the choir room anyway, does that make you feel more like the big guy you wish you were?
Perhaps you could see a bit more clearly if you weren’t constantly enshrouded by the fog created by you and your fellow wingnuts’methane emissions.
thanks for stopping by to breathe my wingnut methane pat. try back about 9pm~chili for dinner tonight!
Adam,
Oooh…aromatic!
He should stop by for sure, as I will be having stewed cabbage for dinner.
What’s funny is, lil Pat thinks he’s a big boy, and the only one to visit other blogs. LOL!
Well done by my fellow Marine grunts and the aviators who supported them. That’s why they call it a MAGTF.
The questions that have to be asked are how were they ambushed by a force of this size, why are the Taliban resurgent, and why are we still fighting a holding action (at best) in Afghanistan SEVEN years after we “won” the war?
Think maybe we had the wrong “focus of effort?”
Started a diversionary “sideshow” instead of focusing on “the main effort?”
Wonder what my fellow Marine General Jim Jones thinks?
Straight from the leftard playlist.
The little sheetheads are resurgent because NATO took control of the operations there.
I know…I know, there is no blame Bush in that reality, so the left has to ignore this point.
last time the nato or other fae grup put thier 2 cents in they called it somallia legio patria nostra
Dear Sir,
Where can I find an account of the battle in the NYT’s, WSJ, etcJames Lewelling
Let the Hodjis hit the floor
I found your blog via Mangle, the random link generator.
The War in Iraq, despite what the media and democrats would lead you to believe, is nearly over and we have won
Define “won.” Have you read about the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement?
No Western nation has ever “won” in either Iraq or Afghanistan, and the US will be no exception to that rule. There’s a reason the Pentagon had no battle plans for Afghanistan back in ’01, and it’s this: you don’t invade Afghanistan!
All we’ve done in both of those countries is to demonstrate the capability to destroy on a massive scale. The amount of suffering that we have caused in those places over what would have obtained absent our presence is, plainly and simply, beyond words.
Between now and the day you die, you either will or will not come to understand that.
all this prattel is for not if we know who they are then use the sta/hog/pig/dmr to del with them and tell them we did it and if they wish to negociate fine if not then you are now a T.O