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250 insurgents vs. 30 Marines: gotta love those odds
Posted by civil truth on November 26th, 2008
News out of Afghanistans tells of a band of insurgents who picked the wrong convoy to ambush.
Marine Makes Insurgents Pay the Price
“The day started out with a 10-kilometer patrol with elements mounted and dismounted, so by the time we got to Shewan, we were pretty beat,” said a designated marksman who requested to remain unidentified. “Our vehicles came under a barrage of enemy RPGs (rocket propelled grenades) and machine gun fire…The vicious attack that left the humvee destroyed and several of the Marines pinned down in the kill zone sparked an intense eight-hour battle as the platoon desperately fought to recover their comrades.
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…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 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.”
The take-home message:
“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.”
Go read the whole story
Washington, is anyone listening?
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November 26th, 2008 at 7:06 am
that is some fine work
November 26th, 2008 at 9:22 am
The USMC… sending insurgents to spend time with their 72 virgin goats in hell…
November 26th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Add about 500 more bad guys and they might have a ghost of a chance. Emphasis on “might”.