Mudville Gazette: The Theater of War (part one)
| Blogs & New Media | September 2, 2010 12:45 pm | You may have heard that combat in Iraq ended this month. You may even believe it. If so, the following could explain why. Heres a graph from an earlier post, with a couple of additions. This depicts American combat deaths in Iraq from late 2006 to now, as recorded and reported by icasualties.org. For a full explanation of what youre seeing, click here. The vertical dashed line is at January, 2009 - when Barack Obama became President of the..
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Blackfive: Today is "Travis Patriquin Day"
| Blogs & New Media | August 31, 2010 10:23 am | Today, we'll get one helluva great speech from President Obama after his phone call to President Bush. President Obama will focus on the good work that the troops have done. Many deserve credit for today. Among them are many who won't hear the President's speech. Today should be Travis Patriquin Day. If you don't know about Travis, go here to read why there is a town square named after him in one of the most (formerly) dangerous cities in Iraq. There are a lot of debates about whether it was the Sunni awakening, the Marines tactics, General Petraeus' strategy, McMaster in Tal Afar, etc. for the turn around in Iraq. But you can't really debate what Patriquin did. He was the ignition switch. And Travis Patriquin paid for it with his life. But, like thousands of others, today could be Doug Zembiec Day. Hoby Bradfield Day. Mike Stokely Day. Chris Rudzinski Day. Casey Sheehan Day. Ian Malone Day. Terry Barnich Day. Bobby Warns Day. Or Mat Schram Day
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Mudville Gazette: When did the actual last combat brigade return from Iraq?
| Blogs & New Media | August 23, 2010 1:10 pm | (Introductory note: Marines and fans of Marines click here. End of story.) No doubt theres something else on TV now - but last week I caught a bit of the coverage of the last American combat brigade leaving Iraq. I wonder if this marks the series finale for this particular program - one thats only been broadcast sporadically since 2007 anyway. Heres a very brief clip: The Pentagon is letting NBC make the announcement for them... Im not sure if..
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