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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SGT GRIT, MY BROTHER & I WERE BOTH MARINES FROM 1971 – 1977, KEEP MY BROTHERS SON TRAVIS IN YOUR PRAYERS, HE IS WITH THE 10 TH MARINES IN FALLUJAH. PICTURE OF TRAVIS THE MORNING 2/10 DEPARTED FOR IRAQ.
SEMPER FI
Don well I think I have regrouped after the khe sanh reunion. Thanks again for coming to them now the guys expect you and have such a good time with the helpers you send they are all outstanding. Got the shirt love it have you had any buyers yet just courious.
Smoking Marine – See what has everyone talking.
I have heard so many times since my return home from Iraq that the U.S. didnt have good reasons to invade Iraq. Well I would like to believe that this picture that I took with three Iraqi kids who were trying to sell me this U.S. flag for one American dollar shows that we didn’t invade Iraq for “no reason.” I am a former reserve Marine who left my wife and two kids to go to Iraq from April to September 2003 so that these three young Iraqi boys will have a safer future.
I attached a picture of a raid we did on the Kufah IP station. We trapped some insurgents in a room and a threw a few frag grenades at them. It lit the building on fire and we had to evacuate. We killed a lot of bad guys that night and took 29 detainees.
Hope all is well….Bruce
Here’s a picture for you. It’s my son, LCpl Ryan Visket, in Najaf. He is sitting on a grave in the cemetery. This was taken just days before he was wounded by shrapnel from an RPG on August 25th. He’s now back with his unit.
Thanks.
Beverly Rosen
Proud Marine Mom
Oh yeah! I forgot to send you some pics from Baghdad!
The first is me with some other Marines at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP). I'm the dude in the middle, looking very much like the Winger I am.
The second it PTing around Saddam's palace area at BIAP. No, I wasn't in court. Notice I'm wearing my Grit shorts!
Pictures from Iraq you won’t see in the paper:
Click and Scroll down to see some amazing pics.
In April of 2003, I received a letter from then SSgt Adrian Walker, one of my former students. I didn’t comprehend the true significance of that letter at the time, but in it he described his unit’s (3/7) move into Baghdad. He explained how the AAV he was riding in crossed the Tigris River and then ran into a minefield. The blast damaged the left track, but the AAV continued to advance for about 1/4 mile before the track came completely off. His Marines provided security for the vehicle until it could be towed back to the Maintainence Collection Point (MCP). They fired on a couple of suspicious vehicles during the night and engaged in some firefights, but finally were towed back to MCP. There, they transfered to another vehicle and made their way back into Baghdad. Eventually, they moved into the Iraqi Olympic Training facility where they set up camp. That is where they were when they were informed that Hussein’s regime had collapsed.
Sgt Grit,
Here is a photo of myself and SSgt Junjak at the airfield in Camp AL Asad, Iraq taken around late August, early September 2004. I was a Sgt at the time of the photo. Athough I’ve got many friends in the Marine Corps, no one person, especially a female, has made me laugh as much as she could. She will never really know the impact that she has made in my life. SSgt Junjak; adored by all, loved by her husband and children, a great friend, and forever a hard-charging Marine. Tearfully, she will always be missed. Thank you for your time……
SSGT VICTOR DIAZ
1ST MARDIV G-1
CAMP AL ASAD, IRAQ
