Marines Who Stormed Fallujah Back in Iraq (3rd tour)

[Barrett808]

Marines Who Stormed Fallujah Back in Iraq
Marines Who Stormed Fallujah Return to Iraq Less Than a Year Later, This Time to Troubled Anbar
By ANTONIO CASTANEDA Associated Press Writer

HADITHA, Iraq Oct 9, 2005 — They stormed the insurgent-ridden city of Fallujah, returned home, and now are back in Iraq's most troubled province all in 10 months time.

Some prefer this hectic pace. "I didn't join the Marine Corps just to stand around," said Lance Cpl. Giovanni Perez of Los Angeles.

But for others, the demands of the overstretched U.S. military are just too much, regardless of the bonuses being dangled before them to re-enlist.

"I get out of the Marine Corps in seven months and I can't wait," Cpl. Daniel Trigg of Olympia, Wash., said while guarding a mosque where a large cache of insurgent weapons was being removed.

Trigg is on his third tour in Iraq in three years. His last tour had him in the southern city of Najaf, where U.S. troops fought fierce battles with Shiite Muslim militiamen last year.

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1198354&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Wasn't Rumsfeld scoffing at talk of a 3rd tour of duty, just a few months ago?

[whatever4]

1. Yes, I remember seeing that, he did nm

[roguevalley]

2. three tours. god almighty. why not just step on a mine and get it over?

[Mnemosyne]

3. I'm sorry, but that was cruel and totally unnecessary. n/t

[gulfcoastliberal]

4. Kind of like a 3rd tour in Iraq. Totallly unnecessary & cruel!

NT!

[Mnemosyne]

5. We do agree on that one! n/t

[roguevalley]

8. apparently irony or something is lost on you.

[shanti]

6. what a goddamn shame....

:-(

[Ksec]

7. I hear the marines are gung ho to be going back.

If thats the case who am I to argue with them. Its their lives.

[MADem]

9. Not the ones I know, to be honest with you

Most of them do not like this combo warrior-policeman/occupier role at all. Regardless how they feel about the war, the ones I know say the execution is really problematic--not enough equipment, not enough personnel, and a shifting mission that looks a lot like a quagmire.