Warning: Sand Storms ahead...

[Dragon Lady]

My hubby sent this to me, comes from a very reliable source...


Here is another first hand Sit Rep from the lap top of 1Sgt Bill Skiles in Fullujah. Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, is in the thick of combat against the bad guys. The 1Sgt speaks of ?extreme prejudice and violent action!?
I?m back and here we go..Now for an update.....Currently Co. ?E? 2/1 has 40 wounded and 3 KIA?s.....wild huh?...mostly small shrapnel and eardrums, but had a Marine lose an arm and 1,a leg ...This place is too messed up to explain...We have been living in the northwest of Fallujah for 3 weeks now....Actually living in some homes we confiscated...across from us about 300 yards is the downtown area of Fallujah...We are shot at everynight. We are mortared alot as well...We always are firing back with our snipers and/or machine guns....It?s almost surreal..We could be playing cards..we hear gunshots and booms..we keep playing....no big deal...Today, I have to tell you about TODAY and our gun battle.
We started receiving sniper fire from this Mosque/ tower...then some badguys threw grenades at our pos. on our roofs...Marines got wounded and Marines fought these $%^%$ close in. Frags were thrown and massive 5.56 was used in close prox. Anyway,my main job is casualities evacuation and accountability...So, hearing I have wounded, I jump in my hardened highback with my company corpsman and 4 security guys and rush to the scene...I?ve never been shot at so much in my life....During the medivac, AK?s were firing at us 10 yards away....I would fire my M-16 with one hand while I was running back and forth....OH MY GOD>>> I think Carl Lewis would be proud of my speed getting these boys loaded up. Anyway, 8 wounded today, 1 died....I actually broke down and had the chaplain say a prayer while I hugged this guys head....He was a good Marine.....I am back in the rear tonight to rest my hurt back and rest my %^%$# brain....NEVER have I had so much blood around me....But you know what, PAYBACK is just around the %$#@# corner and I WILL not faulter. I WILL get these boys ready to show no mercy and rid this town of this CANCER.
Extreme predjudice and violence of action....I really have nothing intellegent to say...Just numb....I take these boys too personal sometimes.....We ARE the purple Heart Company..152 strength, 40 WIA, 3 KIA...1/3 of the company with 5 months to go...Hell YEAH>>>>> God Bless our Corpsman and our Chaplains...They make a big difference out here....and God Bless Marine Corps fixed wing, Rotary gunships, artillery, mortars, machine guns and Iraqi odybags....
Out for now...
1st Sgt Bill Skiles