Friday, May 13, 2005
Squad Wiped Out
Terrible News:
I guess it's not important enough for the big Media networks to cover, because people are more interested in the Runaway Bride epidemic. Perhaps Bush will hold a press conference to declare a "War on Runaway Brides" to get our mind off Iraq and makes us all feel better.
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Among the four Marines killed and 10 wounded when an explosive device erupted under their Amtrac on Wednesday were the last battle-ready members of a squad that four days earlier had battled foreign fighters holed up in a house in the town of Ubaydi. In that fight, two squad members were killed and five were wounded.
In 96 hours of fighting and ambushes in far western Iraq, the squad had ceased to be.
Every member of the squad -- one of three that make up the 1st Platoon of Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment -- had been killed or wounded, Marines here said. All told, the 1st Platoon -- which Hurley commands -- had sustained 60 percent casualties, demolishing it as a fighting force.
"They used to call it Lucky Lima," said Maj. Steve Lawson, commander of the company. "That turned around and bit us."
I guess it's not important enough for the big Media networks to cover, because people are more interested in the Runaway Bride epidemic. Perhaps Bush will hold a press conference to declare a "War on Runaway Brides" to get our mind off Iraq and makes us all feel better.
