"We'll put a Boot up your Ass--It's the American Way": Marines from Bravo One Five Looking for Mr. Thuggie

LCpl. Neal R. Basset
Sgt. Joe Salinas
PFC. Alan J. Maria LCpl.Steven R. Seeley
Cpl. Nicholas L. Gentry


Major General William Webster Jr, commander of the Army's 3rd Division, said in Baghdad that thug operations are "mostly blunted".
I like that, heh, mostly blunted. He should have said: Thuggies are Sucking Hard Wind. Keep them thuggies rolling. Move them out. Roll them out. Head them out. Keep them thuggies moving--- the steam roller of Democracy is paving a new road right up your tuckas.

These are some of the men from from my old alma mater Bravo One Five that made Operation Lighting a huge success that had thugs scrambling for cover away from 2,500 check points, 500 midnight house raids, and netted 1700 "suspected" thuggies. Cpl. Gentry,w/Air Ground Task Force Like many so many Marines, Gentry is also one who believes it is his duty to shoulder the burden of military service at a point in his life when he was also ready to reap the benefits of life in a free and democratic society.


Photos by Cpl. Ruben D. Maestre, (Gentry) Photo by Cpl. Tom Sloan