A Marine remembers his time in Iraq
Ten years ago this week, the Iraq war started. I remember picking up our light-armored vehicles from Port Doha in Kuwait as the war kicked off. Our company of Marines unloaded the “pigs” — as we called them — and packed them up as fast as possible so we could catch up to our command unit, the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. Our company was about 24 hours behind 1st LAR, but we caught up quickly. For the next seven months, however, we fought and we endured boredom.
I remember Gen. James Mattis, then the commander of the 1st Marine Division, always calling us his “fine young men” when he flew in to visit forward troops in remote locations.… Seguir leyendo »