Cut to the Chase: Why the SEALS will Hang....PAYBACK

Limbaugh has a recent caller-a Naval Intell officer interesting take on the SEALS and the FAT LIP incident due on DEC 7,Monday. The Senior Higher as well as civilian Higher has been bought and sold. Plucked Peaches.


RUSH: So let me cut to the chase here. So what I think I hear you saying is the blowback that you mentioned is, this is payback for the SEALs violating the ROE on this captain of the Maersk; and this is the chain of command reasserting itself, letting everybody know who's boss and what's going to happen to you if you don't follow orders?

CALLER: That is my rather experienced opinion -- and, frankly, the opinion of others. I am very close to the special operations community here in North Carolina, and, you know, that opinion is surfacing. These people are very vindictive -- and you have to understand, Mr. Limbaugh, you're very pro-military, and you always say wonderful things about our people in service, and we greatly appreciate it. But I do have to say this, and I'd like to make this one point. I've had two sons, by the way. My two eldest sons have done multiple tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. The military of today is not the military that fought World War II. It is not even the military that fought the first Gulf War. It is a military that has been thoroughly politicized. It is a military that is suffering the fallout of Patricia Schroeder's ridiculous, politically correct policies that still have great power and sway in the military. And I'm just going to have to tell you: I do not mean to impugn the junior personnel in the military, the line troops, the junior officers. I'm not talking about these people. These people are doing a fine job. They're outstanding people. But the senior ranking, the civilian and senior ranking military personnel are thoroughly indoctrinated and on board with this politically correct agenda that's in the military.

RUSH: Yeah. I'll tell you the most recent example of it. A glaring example was General Casey, more concerned about the "diversity" in his Army than the loss of life at Fort Hood.

CALLER: General Casey, sir, and Wesley Clark are not the exceptions in the upper echelons. They are the rule. Those are the kinds of men that are running the show and they will throw the junior personnel under the bus to save themselves every time. And that is my opinion. Again, I don't mean to impugn any of the junior people.

Saddle Up the Pogie Bait Train for Bravo LAR

Cassandra, The Goddess of Blogs and her organization, Honor Their Service, is saddling up the Pogie Bait Train with all Christmas Goodies including 150 stuffed stockings and snacks to Bravo 4th LAR today through the Operation Santa program at Marine Corps Family Foundation.

Oh lordy, to rewind the tape and be 20 again! Honor Their Service is a bonafide 501 (c) 3 IRS tax exempt outfit--in case you are looking for extra karmic points or if you just want to bask under the smile of Happy Marines enjoying their goodies, hayaku, over to their site and drop some coins in their basket. You'll be glad you did.

Huysman

Capt. Brian P. Huysman, C.O. Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment 09/04/09.
USMC Sgt. Freddy G. Cantu

War Pigs at Udairi Range, Kuwait

LAR, 26th MEU, live fire range 05/02/07 (2LAR?)
USMC Photo Sgt. Freddy G. Cantu

Gates Appalled

Caroline Glick has another participant for the Time to Retire Parade:

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday he was appalled at news leaks about the investigation into last week's deadly shootings at Fort Hood.

"Frankly if I found out with high confidence anybody who's leaking on the Department of Defense, who that was, that would probably be a career-ender," he told reporters traveling with him to Wisconsin. "Everybody ought to shut up."

Amazing, simply amazing. A jihadist in the US military massacres 13 people after saying for years that infidels should be killed and etc., and no one threw him out of the army. And what gets the Defense Secretary's goat is that the public is learning how the army's political correctness enabled this massacre.

Denning

Sgt. Aaron Denning, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment
USMC photo LCpl. Phillip Elgie

Bingo, IED Detector

Bingo, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment
USMC photo Lance Cpl. Phillip Elgie

Greensage

Sgt. Greensage, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment

USMC photo Lance Cpl. Phillip Elgie

On Your Six Bravo 4thLAR: Bulldog Detachment , Ladies of Harley and Williamnsport Chapter 1544

The Bulldog Detachment of the Marine Corps League in Hagerstown and the Ladies of Harley with Williamsport Chapter 1544 will be holding a holiday care package drive for Bravo Company, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. The Company is in Afghanistan and includes members from Washington County.

The Bulldog Detachment is accepting monetary contributions to buy items and pay for shipping packages; and donated items for the packages.

Items include hygiene items, hand warmers, food, candy, playing cards, table games, magazines and books. The items will be packed on Dec. 2.

Checks may be made payable to The Bulldog Detachment Inc. MCL, with “care package drive” on the memo line.

They may be mailed to David M. Danfelt, Bulldog Detachment, Marine Corps League, 137 W. Potomac St., Williamsport, MD 21795. To donate, call Danfelt at 301-223-7380.

Mercado

Sgt. Raphi Mercado, India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment

Fire Base Fiddler's Green---USMC photo Sgt. Christopher R. Rye

Styborski

Sgt. Hugh Styborski, Jump Platoon, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment

USMC photo Sgt. Freddy G. Cantu

Gratuitous TGD War Pig Porn

3/11 Corpsman

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Sills
photo by Sgt. Christopher R. Rye

Higher

Lt. Col. James C. Lewis, right, commanding officer, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, with Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, right, commanding general of Marine Expeditionary Brigade -
USMC Photo Sgt. Christopher R. Rye Fire Base Fiddler's Green

Hacker Wars

Strategy Page

China makes no secret of the fact that they intend to rely heavily on Information War in any future conflict. This is reinforced by the extent to which China has been using Internet based espionage to steal military secrets. China is also spending more, than any other nation, to develop ways to control Internet use.While the details of Chinese military plans are secret, the general strategy isn't. The weapons, equipment and techniques the military uses, as well as discussions in professional journals, makes it clear how the Chinese plan to fight the United States in the next war.

That's how many Chinese military experts describe it. The U.S. is the principal foe, and some kind of conflict is inevitable. All that may seem strange to Americans, but for most Chinese, it's just the way it is.

China plans to disrupt the American military, not destroy it.

China takes for granted that they will be on the defensive, and forced to deal mainly with American air and naval forces. Methods discussed include attacks via the Internet (hacking and such) and electronic warfare (jamming and deceptions). China has been very active in controlling its domestic Internet users, and an increasing number of hacker attacks on U.S. military targets are being traced back to China. There, the government denies everything. Yet their professional journals talk about all the opportunities in this area. There are similar discussions of electronic warfare opportunities. In addition, the professional journals are full of exhortations to develop insights into the details of how the American armed forces operates, and adapt Chinese tactics to take care of any U.S. weaknesses.

Fat Lip for Terrorist Equals Assault Charges for Navy SEALS

On what planet does this make sense? Navy SEALS captured Ahmed Hashim Abed alive. Now he is accusing them of giving him a fat lip and obliging NAVY higher presses criminal charges. Pathetic. Harpies of the Shores. Red Tape Garrison Warriors. Fall in line all ye little diversity sheep. Join your Army brethren who could not stop doing the nudge-nudge-wink-wink dance long enough to pull the pin on Major Nidal Malik Hasan.

FOX NEWS

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.

The three, all members of the Navy's elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral's mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.

Black

Sgt. Jason Black, Jump Platoon, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment 8/20/2009

USMC photo SSgt. William Greeson

Bravo

Cpl. Gilberto Bravo, Jump Platoon, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 08/20/2009.
USMC photo SSgt. William Greeson

Obama to WTF! Surrender Afghanistan?

via The MEMRI BLOG:
Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement's foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul. According to the source, the U.S. has offered the Taliban control of the Kandahar, Helmand, Oruzgan, Kunar and Nuristan provinces in return for a halt to the Taliban missile attacks on U.S. bases.

Source: Al-Watan (Saudi Arabia), November 22, 2009

Part 1 Vid Alpha 4LAR in Afghanistan

Alpha meets new neighbors, provides medical care to a burned baby girl and make plans for future endeavors. Part 1 of 3. Video by Cpl. Jennifer Calaway Date Taken: 11.18.2009

Part 2 Vid Alpha 4LAR in Afghanistan

A Co., 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, touring settlement one. Marines meet new neighbors, provide medical care to a burned baby girl and make plans for future endeavors. Also includes interviews with Capt. Edward Burns (US), A Co., 4th LAR, MEB-A Commander
• Lance Cpl. James Hunter (US), HUMVEE Operator

Alpha 4LAR In Country-part 3

Tour of settlement Number One and interviews with farmers
Video by Cpl. Jennifer Calaway
Date Taken: 11.18.2009
Posted: 11.18.2009 02:28

DNI Going Dark Monday 23rd--Get Your Boyd On

William S. Lind
18 November 2009

In response to the killing of 13 American soldiers at Ft. Hood by an Islamic U. S. Army major, a number of senior officials have expressed their fear, not of Islam, but of a possible threat to “diversity.” “Diversity” is one of the many false gods of “Political Correctness.” But what exactly is Political Correctness?

Political Correctness is cultural Marxism, Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. Its history goes back not to the 1960s but to World War I. Before 1914, Marxist theory said that if a major war broke out in Europe, the workers of every country would join together in a revolution to overthrow capitalism and replace it with international socialism. But when war came, that did not happen. What had gone wrong?

Two Marxist theorists, Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary, independently came up with the same answer. They said that Western culture and the Christian religion had so “blinded” the working class to its true (Marxist) class interests that Communism was impossible in the West until traditional culture and Christianity were destroyed. When Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bela Kun Bolshevik government in Hungary in 1919, one of his first acts was introducing sex education into the Hungarian schools. He knew that destroying traditional sexual morals would be a major step toward destroying Western culture itself.

Lukacs became a major influence on a Marxist think tank established in 1923 at Frankfurt University in Germany, the Institute for Social Research, commonly known as the Frankfurt School. When Max Horkheimer took over as director of the Frankfurt School in 1930, he set about in earnest to do Lukacs’ bidding by translating Marxism from economic into cultural terms. Other Frankfurt School members devoted to this intellectually difficult task were Theodor Adorno, Eric Fromm, Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse. Theirs was not the Marxism of the Soviet Union – Moscow considered them heretics – but it was Marxism nonetheless.

The Frankfurt School’s key to success was crossing Marx with Freud. They argued that just as under capitalism everyone lived in a state of economic oppression, so under Western culture people lived under psychological repression. From psychology they also drew the technique of psychological conditioning. Want to “normalize” homosexuality? Just show television program after television program where the only normal-seeming white male is homosexual.

In 1933 the Frankfurt School moved from Germany to New York City. There, its products included “critical theory,” which demands constant, destructive criticism of every traditional social institution, starting with the family. It also created a series of “studies in prejudice,” culminating in Adorno’s immensely influential book, The Authoritarian Personality, which argued that anyone who defends traditional culture is a “fascist” and also mentally ill. That is why anyone who now dares defy “PC” gets sent to “sensitivity training,” which is psychological conditioning designed to produce submission.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Herbert Marcuse translated the abstruse work of the other Frankfurt School thinkers into books college students could understand, such as Eros and Civilization, which became the Bible of the New Left in the 1960s. Marcuse injected the Frankfurt School’s cultural Marxism into the baby boom generation, to the point where it is now that generation’s ideology. We know it as “multiculturalism,” “diversity” or just Political Correctness.

That is the dirty little secret of Political Correctness, folks: it is a form of Marxism. If the average American knew that, I suspect Political Correctness would be in serious trouble.

The Ft. Hood killings raise an interesting question: why would Marxists of any variety come to the support of Islam? After all, if the Islamics took over, they would cut Marxists’ throats even before they cut the throats of Christians and Jews. The answer is that cultural Marxism will ally with any force that helps it to achieve its goals, destroying Western culture and Christianity.

Obviously, there is far more to the history of the Frankfurt School and its creation of Political Correctness than I can cover in a short column. This is just a bare-bones outline. For those who want to learn more (and I hope you do), you can find a short book on the subject, which I edited, on the website of the Free Congress Foundation. Free Congress also produced a short video documentary history of the Frankfurt School, which I’m told is available on Youtube (look under Frankfurt School or under my name). The video is especially valuable because we interviewed the principal American expert on the Frankfurt School, Martin Jay, who was then the chairman of the History Department at Berkeley (and obviously no conservative). He spills the beans.

Most people in the U. S. military hate Political Correctness, but they don’t know how to fight it. The way to fight it is to find out what it really is, and make sure all your friends find out too. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism, which is to say intellectual Soylent Green. Here more than in anything else, knowledge is a weapon!

William S. Lind, expressing his own personal opinion, is Director for the Center for Cultural Conservatism for the Free Congress Foundation.

Claire Berlinski:On Getting Raped

Claire Berlinski noted American author, freelance writer and blogger of Learning to Fight, gets fact checked today on using the term "Clock Automatics" by her entourage. Of course, Jack Burton can not resist a pile on to add: In you danger, girl? You want a Marine's best friend--a Model 1911 A-1 Cal. 45.

Show Me the Data Part 2

Here, as far as I'm concerned, is the most significant finding of all:

Women who used knives or guns in self-defense were raped less than 1% of the time. Defensive use of edged or projectile weapons reduced the rate of injury to statistical insignificance (Kleck and Sayles, 1990).

In other words, resist, with everything you've got.

And your weapon of choice is not Chi power, but a Glock automatic.

ON Your Six, America.

Cpl. Christopher Mullins with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment

USMC photo Staff Sgt. William Greeson

Road Recon

Sgt. Herman, Combat Logistic Battalion 8, Nawa, 09/06/09
USMC photo StaffSgt William Greeson

Lock and Load

Lance Cpl. Eric Fisher, One Five, 08/29/09, Patrol Base Jaker.
USMC photo SSgt William Greeson

Guutenfelder Collection of Photos

David Guttenfelder, Denver Post, photos of Marines from the 2nd MEB, 2/3 and One Five

Sarah and America

Sarah Palin: Going Rogue Tour!

Sarah Palin's Notes

Going Rogue Tour!

Yesterday at 10:12pm

The first three stops on the Going Rogue book tour have been exhilarating!

I am humbled by the outpouring of support and have so enjoyed meeting and hearing from such great Americans in Michigan and Indiana. Our next three stops will keep us in the Heartland, and we hope that you can make it to one of our events in Cincinnati or Columbus, Ohio; or Washington, Pennsylvania.

Enjoy the pictures and go rogue with us!

- Sarah Palin

Gov. Sarah Palin greets a crowd of people outside of a suburban Grand Rapids, MI, shopping mall, Wednesday, November 18, 2009, prior to kicking off the first stop of the "Going Rogue" book tour. Photo by Shealah Craighead. Copyright SarahPAC.

Gov. Sarah Palin talks with a soldier who waited in line to have his book signed at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Grand Rapids, MI, Wednesday, November 18, 2009. This is the first stop on Palin's "Going Rogue" book tour. Photo by Shealah Craighead. Copyright SarahPAC.

Gov. Sarah Palin shakes hands with a family who waited in line to have their books signed at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Grand Rapids, MI, Wednesday, November 18, 2009. This is the first stop on Palin's "Going Rogue" book tour. Photo by Shealah Craighead. Copyright SarahPAC.

Gov. Sarah Palin signs a book and talks with a woman who waited in line to have her book signed at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Grand Rapids, MI, Wednesday, November 18, 2009. This is the first stop on Palin's "Going Rogue" book tour. Photo by Shealah Craighead. Copyright SarahPAC.

Gov. Sarah Palin at the Fort Wayne, IN, book signing, Thursday, November 19, 2009. Photo by Shealah Craighead. Copyright SarahPAC.

Gov. Sarah Palin at the Fort Wayne, IN, book signing, Thursday, November 19, 2009. Photo by Shealah Craighead. Copyright SarahPAC.

Gov. Sarah Palin at the Fort Wayne, IN, book signing, Thursday, November 19, 2009. Photo by Shealah Craighead. Copyright SarahPAC.

After 4 hours of signing books during the third "Going Rogue" book signing event, Gov. Sarah Palin greets a crowd waiting outside of Borders bookstore Thursday, November 19, 2009, in Noblesville, IN. Photo by Shealah Craighead. Copyright SarahPAC.

Gov. Sarah Palin talks with a woman who's looks resemble that of Gov. Sarah Palin at Borders bookstore during the third "Going Rogue" book signing event Thursday, November 19, 2009, in Noblesville, IN. Photo by Shealah Craighead. Copyright SarahPAC.

Gov. Sarah Palin shakes hands with a young woman who waited in line to have her "Going Rogue" book signed at Borders bookstore Thursday, November 19, 2009, in Noblesville, IN. Photo by Shealah Craighead. Copyright SarahPAC.

A bird's eye view of Gov. Sarah Palin talking with Americans and signing her book "Going Rogue" at Borders bookstore during the third "Going Rogue" book signing event Thursday, November 19, 2009, in Noblesville, IN. Photo by Shealah Craighead. Copyright SarahPAC.

Gov. Sarah Palin talks with a family who waited in line to have their "Going Rogue" book signed at Borders bookstore Thursday, November 19, 2009, in Noblesville, IN. Photo by Shealah Craighead. Copyright SarahPAC.

Written 19 hours ago

To Princeton AKA Paper Tigers-the WHITE FEATHER

Via Diana West

A planned Wednesday talk by controversial Egyptian-American activist Nonie Darwish was cancelled Tuesday evening when both of the event’s sponsors, Tigers for Israel (TFI) and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, withdrew their sponsorship, citing her criticism of Islam.

Darwish, a writer and the founder of Arabs for Israel and Former Muslims United, was scheduled to give a talk Wednesday afternoon titled “Sharia Law and Perspectives on Israel.” TFI officers rescinded their invitation, however, explaining that they had not been fully aware of Darwish’s views when they invited her to speak.

"Views" which don't pass muster.

Though TFI had been planning Darwish’s visit for nearly three weeks and advertised it with posters across campus, TFI president Addie Lerner ’11 said that her organization, which is affiliated with the Center for Jewish Life (CJL), did not wish to be seen as endorsing Darwish by sponsoring her lecture.

Since when does sponsoring a lecture equal endorsement? This isn't the reason for the hasty and rude disinvitation. It isn't that the "Tigers" don't endorse Darwish's views. Her views are verboten.

“We didn’t know in the beginning that [Darwish’s] views were not at all in line with what we believe,” Lerner explained.

And thus beyond the pale.

After TFI co-vice president Rafael Grinberg ’12 proposed inviting Darwish to campus, Lerner said she read “the first couple of paragraphs” of Darwish’s entry on Wikipedia before extending the invitation. She added that she did minimal research on Darwish largely because she trusted Grinberg and the nonpartisan media watchdog group Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) to vet Darwish.

“I accept complete responsibility for the fact that I did not vet her fully,” Lerner said. “I am very sorry if people thought we agreed with [Darwish’s views].”

On her blog, Darwish — formerly Muslim and now Christian — has called Islam “the greatest lie in human history” and criticized Muslim law for encouraging “vigilante street justice to bring about Islamic submission.”

Sounds interesting. Maybe Darwish should have been asked to explain why her experience growing up the privileged daughter of a shahid, a high-ranking Egyptian military official and close associate of Nasser's who was assassinated by Israeli commandos when Darwish was a child, led her to these conclusions.

“It was clear that she was very critical of radical Islam in the contemporary Arab world,” TFI co-vice president Jeffrey Mensch ’11 said in an e-mail. “However, we did not realize the extent to which she denounces not just radical Islam, but all of Islam.”

Gee, I guess that means she denounces religious supremacism, repression of conscience, censorship, sexual inequality, capital punishment for the "crime" of "leaving Islam, polygamy, ethnic cleansing, etc. No wonder there's no place for her at Princeton.

Whig-Clio president Ben Weisman ’11 said the society withdrew its sponsorship and did not permit the event to take place in Whig Hall as planned because of the withdrawal. “Our decision to co-host the event was based on our belief that by extending an offer to speak to Ms. Darwish, members of TFI deemed her views a legitimate element of the mainstream discourse and in part agreed with her incendiary opinions,” Weisman said in an e-mail. “By rescinding their offer, TFI indicated their understanding that Darwish’s views have no place in the campus community, essentially rendering irrelevant our attempt at opening them up for debate.”

THANKS FOR NOTHING PRINCETON....WAY TO DEFEND AMERICA....THE CONSTITUTION...................A. HOLES

New Years Day 2005 War Pig

3rd LAR War Pig checking out the streets of Ar Rutbah, Iraq on New Years Day 01/01/2005
USMC photo LCPL RICHARD A. HILARIO

War Pigs on Tinian

Marines from 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) Battalion, Twentynine Stumps, on the Island of Tinian in a WAR PIG AKA Light Armored Vehicle-25 (LAV-25), 3/29/1999.
USMC photo LCPL PENNY SURDUKAN

Slow. Whats going on? Out of film?

The DI web site has remained static, aka no new pixs, since the Marine Corps birthday. Why? Don't know. Honestly, I don't know anymore than you about what the whohaw is going on. You think they ran out of film,for crikeysakes, give a break already. Really. I been culling the remains for shots I may have missed or overlooked the first view. I prefer faces and names. Pix w/generic "Marines of the blah, blah" are not selected as they are off your search engine radars. Not much use to you when you are typing in the search engine the name of your son, daughter, lover. OK. What ever. The good news is that boredom pays off. Sorta. I discovered the "Still Photo Collections"
In the collections, I found War Pig pixs. OOOHRAH! Some of, hell who am I kidding, most of them are 10 years old--most are four to five years past the sell by date. But HEY! Who loves you, baby. Bring it on. We will post these oldies but goodies until the boys at Helmand Province Combat Camera figure out how to hit the SEND button. Not complaining. Just, you know, the SITREP. While we wait for new pixs. From Helmand Province. May be one of the combat camera correspondents will make it up to Bravo 4th LAR. What? It could happen.

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Greta Perry Valour-IT

1500 Voters Show Up in Frezzing Weather to Meet Sarah

Michigan was the first stop for the Palin Going Rouge Book Bus Tour. Already, you can sense the time is 2012 by the way the liberal left media is reacting. The Dish, for example, has a case of the OMG we have nothing to sayitus:

"This is only the second time in its nearly ten-year history that the Dish has gone silent. The reason now is the same as the reason then. When dealing with a delusional fantasist like Sarah Palin, it takes time to absorb and make sense of the various competing narratives that she tells about her life."

Vamp city. What ever.

You know the mainstream and sidestream media is going to go ape caca over the presence of Sarah. So What. What else is new? Lady Palin is a force of conservatism. Deal with it.

Wait One

Sgt. Sean Baumgartner, Combined Anti-Armor Team 2, One Five, 10/29/09 Helmand.
USMC Photo LCpl. James Purschwitz

Shields Up

Sgt. Michael Kirk, Combined Anti-Armor Team, One Five, 10/26/09 Helmand.
USMC photo Cpl Artur Shvartsberg

Mark 2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun

Cpl. Tim Necker, Combined Anti Armor Team 1, One Five, Helmand, 10/29/09.
USMC photo Cpl. Artur Shvartsberg

Chillin' with the Children

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Christopher Kamm, Three Eleven,

USMC photo Sgt. Christopher R. Rye

Passing out the pogie bait

U.S. Navy Lt. Manuel Querido

USMC photo Sgt. Christopher R. Rye

Injured Afghan boy

Marines and sailors with India ,Three Four rush an injured Afghan boy for medical treatment at Forward Operating Base Golestan Nov. 1, 2009
USMC photo Lance Cpl. Chad J. Pulliam

Adjust the M777A2 lightweight howitzer

Cpl. Thomas Rains Gun 1, November Battery, Five Fourteen, FOB Payne 10/29/09.

USMC photo Sgt. Christopher R. Rye

On Watch

Cpl. Savarino, Combined Anti-Armor Team, One Five 10/31/09 Nawa.
USMC photo Cpl Artur Shvartsberg

Cpl Ringo and Child

Lance Cpl. William Child, Combined Anti-Armor Team 2,
One Five, 10/29/2009 Helmand.
USMC Photo LCpl. James Purschwitz