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 Lost Fallujah (rant)
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01/04/14 07:20 PM
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Luke27
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Well I always knew it was just a matter of time. I read today that the city of Fallujah, Iraq has fallen to jihad joe. I served there in 07-08 and it's sickening. All the lives lost, injuries sustained,time spent away from families. I know it doesn't take those things away, but it does hurt. I feel politicians pulled us out before our mission was complete. I'd love nothing more then to go put some rounds down range and wreck shop on those [censored]. Hopefully something gets done about this. sorry, just a random rant. world news youtube
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/04/14 08:46 PM
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Well I always knew it was just a matter of time. I read today that the city of Fallujah, Iraq has fallen to jihad joe. I served there in 07-08 and it's sickening. All the lives lost, injuries sustained,time spent away from families. I know it doesn't take those things away, but it does hurt. I feel politicians pulled us out before our mission was complete. I'd love nothing more then to go put some rounds down range and wreck shop on those [censored]. Hopefully something gets done about this. sorry, just a random rant. world news youtube Well this sure sounds familiar, first time I heard it was just over 40 years ago.
Yes! A Weatherby does kill them deader.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/04/14 10:53 PM
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I hear you, man. I was with 4BDE 10MTN that took Sadr City in the summer of 08. I saw too many people killed and really aren't that happy about being wounded either. However, I knew as soon as the war started that a few Joes being there for a few years wasn't going to put a stop to 10,000 years of conflict. May they all kill each other without our help.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/04/14 11:01 PM
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Lukebraun33
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Yup I feel you too. I was with 1st BDE 1st CAV when we took Sadr City the first time in 04-05. Just to find out it was lost less than 6 months after we left.
Life is not about where you finish it's about the adventure along the way.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Lukebraun33]
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01/06/14 02:18 AM
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Yup I feel you too. I was with 1st BDE 1st CAV when we took Sadr City the first time in 04-05. Just to find out it was lost less than 6 months after we left. Yup, I was in Sadr in 04-05 when we did the big push.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/06/14 03:45 AM
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you guys that were there, I am sorry the way this played out.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/06/14 03:54 AM
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Lukebraun33
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Nice. I was in Cco 2-5 CAV running ops straight out of the dirty bird Fob war eagle.
Life is not about where you finish it's about the adventure along the way.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/06/14 04:18 AM
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NORML as can be
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I wouldn't piss on their heads if they were on fire. It's there fight now, Time for them to Man up and grow a pair and use the equipment we left along with all the training they got and make a stand or die. What a waist of time and Lives this gaggle has been.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/06/14 08:49 PM
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amcalister
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Lukebraun, I was 1-12 Cav. at Dirty Bird!!! Only infantry guys in our battalion. I was in the mortar platoon. Those were the good times. We need to get together and shoot the crap and do some huntin and fishin!!!
Last edited by amcalister; 01/06/14 08:51 PM.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/06/14 09:58 PM
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Yesterday is dead and gone, you can't bring it back. Like HWY_MAM its been said before. I live and enjoy today, each and everyone of em. Remember that the politicians are the ones that start wars, then they send our young men and women to fight it for them. Not their young ones just ours. I'm sure none of them care much about anything but getting back in office. Sory your feeling bad about it.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/06/14 10:50 PM
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Lukebraun33
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For sure amcalister sure do miss the days at war eagle. Those were the best and worst of times. Shoot me a pm I'm just south of Austin.
Life is not about where you finish it's about the adventure along the way.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/06/14 11:03 PM
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op I hear ya, agree out to soon, I was there 04-05, saw this coming from the beginning.
i am cancelling my subscription, i am tired of your issues!
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: luv2brode]
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01/07/14 12:16 AM
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Somewhere out there, or up there, Chris Kyle is angrily turning in his grave....
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple.....and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/07/14 02:13 AM
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I hate to see it happen. I, like many others, have put too much of my life into Iraq/Afghanistan and time away from family. I don't think it's going to get any better in Iraq and I don't think we have the political resolve to fix it in Afghanistan.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/07/14 04:35 AM
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I wasn't too far away from Sadr in 04-05. I was at Fob Falcon. Good 'ol Sadr city was just a few IED's away from there though!!
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/07/14 04:46 AM
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Lukebraun33
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Haha. Yeah. If you were outside of Sadr City you were only a few ieds away. If you were inside the city going out you were just a few ieds and a couple ambushes away. Lol
Life is not about where you finish it's about the adventure along the way.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/10/14 07:13 AM
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1FowlHntR
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Lukebraun33, AMcalister, We should start our OWN thread about 04-05 in Baghdad!!!
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/11/14 01:50 AM
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My cuz is a Marine and helped liberate Fallujah back in 2003-04. I know he lost friends. Thank you to all those who have served, past, present, future.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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01/16/14 04:11 AM
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Retired Army here. Salute to all who have served. What a shame. Don't believe they will stop fighting ever over there.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: HWY_MAN]
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02/04/14 04:38 PM
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Well I always knew it was just a matter of time. I read today that the city of Fallujah, Iraq has fallen to jihad joe. I served there in 07-08 and it's sickening. All the lives lost, injuries sustained,time spent away from families. I know it doesn't take those things away, but it does hurt. I feel politicians pulled us out before our mission was complete. I'd love nothing more then to go put some rounds down range and wreck shop on those [censored]. Hopefully something gets done about this. sorry, just a random rant. world news youtube Well this sure sounds familiar, first time I heard it was just over 40 years ago. Sounds like Cambodia all over again. Operation Fishhook May 1970. And now they are living here.
Shoot ... Reload ... Shoot ... Call 911
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: amcalister]
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02/04/14 04:47 PM
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Lukebraun, I was 1-12 Cav. at Dirty Bird!!! Only infantry guys in our battalion. I was in the mortar platoon. Those were the good times. We need to get together and shoot the crap and do some huntin and fishin!!! I was with the 1/12th Cav in Viet Nam at Xuan Loc in 1970. They were air assault then. Then they gave the whole country back to the Communist.
Shoot ... Reload ... Shoot ... Call 911
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Xman]
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02/05/14 01:47 AM
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amcalister
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Lukebraun, I was 1-12 Cav. at Dirty Bird!!! Only infantry guys in our battalion. I was in the mortar platoon. Those were the good times. We need to get together and shoot the crap and do some huntin and fishin!!! I was with the 1/12th Cav in Viet Nam at Xuan Loc in 1970. They were air assault then. Then they gave the whole country back to the Communist. I went through air assault school but didn't do me much good down there at Hood.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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02/05/14 02:26 PM
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Pull our troops out of the middle east and turn it into glass.I worked over there for a few years and the radicals will never change and will continue to fight each other as they have for centuries. Thank every one for their service and protect the ones still there.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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02/06/14 07:59 PM
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Same old story, and I lost my youth back in 66-69 in the Vietnam jungle.
Too bad the politicians and a lot of Americans have such short memories.
I really believe we would have less of this if running for higher political office or even the President required that you served in the armed forces.
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Once i learned that i didn't "NEED" to kill something, and that if i did kill something all the fun stopped and work began, i was a much better hunter.
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Re: Lost Fallujah (rant)
[Re: Luke27]
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02/06/14 11:10 PM
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I was at Habbinyah across from TQ air base on the Euphrates in Al Anbar. Fister (FO) type with 1/110th Inf 28th division. 05-06. It was on route Michigan between Fallujah and Ramadi. We relieved the 2nd ID and got relieved by 3/5 Marines I think it was.
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