MARINE KILLED DURING OPERATION NEW MARKET IN HADITHAH(1654)

[leftchick]

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050535.txt


May 27, 2005
Release Number: 05-05-35C


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


MARINE KILLED DURING OPERATION NEW MARKET IN HADITHAH

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – A Marine assigned to II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) was killed May 26 by a rocket-propelled grenade explosion during Operation New Market, a combat operation in Hadithah.

The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT THE MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-WEST PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE AT [e-mail].

[ClintonTyree]

1. May has not been a good month....

actually, none of them have been good since the giggling murder monkey started this illegal war, but it seems as if the pace has picked up lately.
BRING THE TROOPS HOME, NOW! No one should die for a tankful of gas.

[Flagg]

2. Operation New Market ?

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[leftchick]

3. I said the same thing this morning...

Another DUer thought it might be related to this. If it is I have to agree... :wtf:

http://www.rememberseptember44.com/

On 17 September 1944 thousands of paratroopers descended from the sky by parachute or glider up to 150 km behind enemy lines. Their goal: to secure to bridges across the rivers in Holland so that the Allied army could advance rapidly northwards and turn left into the lowlands of Germany, hereby skirting around the Siegfried line, the German defence line. If all carried out as planned it should have ended the war by Christmas 1944.

Unfortunately this daring plan, named Operation Market Garden, didn't have the expected outcome. The bridge at Arnhem proved to be 'a bridge too far'. After 10 days of bitter fighting the operation ended with the evacuation of the remainder of the 1st British Airborne Division from the Arnhem area.

[DrDebug]

10. That's what I thought as well

New Market Garden. Another huge failure which will only bring more dead and wounded since it is a bridge too far.

[UpInArms]

4. RIP marine

another to be mourned this Memorial Weekend - while families go on their after school vacations and picnics and while away their days oblivious to the war that takes page 32 in any larger newspaper.

Mission Accomplished:

Thousands Dead
Billions Spent

:cry:

and nominated so perhaps someone else will notice the dying :(

[DeaconBlues]

5. the corporate media tries to hide the extent of the tragedy that is Iraq

but the American people are still being delivered the truth, in the form of flag-covered coffins being delivered to small towns all across the nation.

The Soviet Union also tried to hide the cost of Afghanistan, until the mothers and fathers of the dead finally rose up and said, "enough" and helped bring down the corrupt system. If anything good can come from our own war, perhaps something similar to what happened in the Soviet Union will happen here.

[UpInArms]

6. Memorial Weekend kick-off

Period	US	UK	Other*	Total	Avg	Days	
4 	218	2	7	227	1.94	117	
3 	579	26	27	632	2.93	216	
2 	718	27	58	803	1.89	424	
1 	140	33	0	173	4.02	43	
Total	1655	88	92	1835	2.29	800

[aneerkoinos]

7. Not just a marine, but a Major

Major Ricardo A. Crocker
http://www.icasualties.org/oif/prdDetails.aspx?hndRef=5-2005

A high value hit for the resistance, not sure if he was the commander of the whole 1000-men operation, but quite likely a battallion commander. This casualty will cause at least moderate disarray for the operation.

[UpInArms]

9. more info: Santa Monica Police Officer Dies In Iraq

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4542398/detail.html

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- A 10-year veteran Santa Monica police officer was killed during his second tour of duty in Iraq, it was announced Friday.

Officer Ricardo A. Crocker, 39, was killed Thursday in the Al-Anbar province in a rocket-propelled grenade attack, Santa Monica police Chief James T. Butts announced.

Crocker was a captain in the Marine Corps Reserves when he was hired onto the Santa Monica police force in 1995. He had since been promoted to major.

"Extremely fit and tactically proficient, Rick's last assignment was with the Police Activities League, where he served as an outstanding role model and mentor for the youth of Santa Monica," Butts said.



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[saigon68]

8. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

As his mommy prepared to put him down, for his Nappy Time.