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2005-07-22 Iraq-Jordan

StrategyPage: Marine Corps Lessons from Fallujah

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Posted by ed 2005-07-22 09:57|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The U.S. Marine Corps has derived a lot of useful information from their two week battle to clear Some 4,000 terrorists out of Fallujah last November.

Which will be useful when the Moonbats of the Bay declare succession in a year or two.

The most widely used weapons, however, were the AT-4 anti-tank rockets. Platoons would use a dozen or more of these a day to clear out rooms or take down walls.

Which means you really need some ammo bearers, think KATUSA, but with an Iraq [or Californian] flavor.

Tanks and bombers were called in if the marines had confirmed a bunch of enemy holding out in a building.

That would take care of most of the Berkley campus, but I'm more inclined towards Arc Lighting.

There were also several hundred carefully selected Iraqi troops along, and they performed well. But the Iraqis were not put to work like the marines were, and the Iraqis were in awe at the speed and efficiency the marines used when they cleared buildings.

Part of the problem with using real local forces as their minds wonder from the fight to their families in the general area, when they're not sure who's going to be incharge in a year, when they lack the degree of hard training Americans put in their front line troops and lead by junior officers and the indispensible NCO [re: Centurion] in the front ranks. Hasn't changed in 2000 years.

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