MarineS cool Off

by:Angel

Crossposted at :thirdworldcounty

Just in case you forgot to thank a soldier today.
Or to hit your knees and pray for one.

OBSERVATION POST OMAR, Iraq — Sleeping inside a vast refrigerator definitely has its advantages in Iraq, especially when the summer sun pushes daily temps toward the 120-degree mark.

Of course, some folks might actually lose sleep when they realize their heat-resistant bedroom used to house hundreds of chilled, dead bodies.

For the Marines of 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, moving into an old Iraqi government morgue just north of Fallujah was a vast improvement over past accommodations, if not a little unsettling.

Initially, the Marines would simply set up camp in an abandoned building and conduct patrols and operations for Regimental Combat Team 5 on a weekly rotation. Eventually, Company A moved into the morgue and dubbed the walled compound “OP 4.”

Marines find life in former morgue ‘cool,’ but not quiet continues..

The name of the post has already been switched to OP Omar, in honor of a fallen Iraqi army soldier.

Company A’s good fortune doesn’t mean its stay at OP Omar has been a quiet one.

The compound had the dubious distinction of appearing on a jih–adist Web site several months ago.

In chilling video footage set to music, an insurgent sniper wounded both a U.S. Army soldier and a Marine who were tinkering with a radar unit on a roof at the compound.

In another instance, members of a supply convoy narrowly escaped death when a mortar shell arced into the compound, punched through the roof of their Humvee and out the driver’s side window and exploded on the ground. The Marines’ heads were ringing, but all avoided serious injury.

“You’ve got to be very careful about how you engage and when you engage,” Long said. “The difficult thing is that you just don’t know who the enemy is. It could be someone you just walked past or somebody you just shook hands with. The enemy plays by different rules than we do.”

C’mon folks.
Let’s hear it for our Marines whose blood, sweat and bravery keep us alive.
Sleeping in a morgue…all in a day’s work.

Mainstream media are still chompin at the ole bit and salivating to find a reason to condemn our warriors for doing what they are there to do.

Let us give pause and remember what exactly they are trained to do: kill our enemy. The enemy of freedom.

Nation-building and peacekeeping were allegedly being handled by ahem “diplomats” from their ivory towers in the U.N…yea right.

And while they insist our soldiers present the vile terrorists gunning for them, an open hand of friendship, the sane amongst us suggest our soldiers present instead, a fast and furious closed fist.

Lest MSM and the N.Y.(not really with the ) Times forget…..just last summer, six Marines died in an ambush.

Two days after that fateful event, 14 more Marines died when a roadside bomb destroyed their vehicle.

So… from Angel..
Semper fi to all those who wear the eagle, globe and anchor insignia.

And………..Stay cool dudes and dudettes….even if it is inside a “refrigerator”!

As seen at: WomanHonorThyself