6, or 7 POW/Mia found...

[SEATJERKER]

...2 with gunshot wounds...

...North of Bagdad... the wounds could mean that they were with the 507th?...

...In US Marines safe haven...

God Bless them on their safe arrival, and hopefully they might provide some answers to the others that are missing...

[thedrifter]

Update............
WASHINGTON - Seven missing U.S. troops have been freed, Gen. Tommy Franks, the war's commander said Sunday.

Sempers,

Roger


Info still coming in.........

[the humper]

Did the Lt. (Medic)??? Treat the marines??????
If it was a Lt., in the Army or the Corps, I think he would be a doctor instead of a medic. Medics and Corpsman, all enlisted!!
SF
NC

[thedrifter]

humper

What info I was getting it was a Corpsman....I can't confirm....at this time yet....With all the new stories....we are only getting a piece of the stories.....

SF
Roger




Seven Missing U.S. Troops Found Healthy

By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar - U.S. Marines have found seven missing U.S. troops on the road between Baghdad and Tikrit, and they appear to be healthy, Gen. Tommy Franks said Sunday.


An Iraqi tipped off the Marines who were near Samarra and were closing in on Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), that they would shortly "come in contact with a number of Americans," Franks told Fox News


"I believe our guys picked them up on the road," he said.


"I know they're in good shape and I know they're in our hands and under our control now," he told CNN.


Franks said he had been reluctant to release the information because he was unsure whether the group was among five listed as missing or seven listed as POWs.


Franks originally said six were found. Central Command later that seven American servicemen were safe.


Bob Franken of CNN, who was with the Marine 24th Expeditionary Unit that found the POWs, said they were brought to an airfield in ambulances and all ran or walked to a C-130 transport plane.


Two of the POWs walked with a limp and one of those was a woman, Franken said.


One of the seven raised his hand in victory, and the woman was carrying her own equipment, he said.

Sempers,

Roger

[thedrifter]

Iraqis hand
over prisoners to Marines

NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES

WASHINGTON, April 13 ? Coalition forces found seven U.S. troops previously classified as missing on the road between Baghdad and Tikrit, Gen. Tommy Franks said Sunday. The soldiers appear to be healthy and were flown from Iraq to Kuwait City.

FIVE OF THE rescued were prisoners of war, part of the 507th Maintenance Company convoy that was ambushed in the southern city of Nasiriyah on March 23. The other two soldiers are Army servicemen captured early the morning of March 24 when their AH-64A Apache Longbow attack helicopter was shot down by Iraqis during a predawn airstrike near Najaf, NBC News reported.
?They?re in good shape and I know they?re in our hands and under our control now and that?s very good,? Gen. Tommy Franks, the war?s commander, told CNN from war headquarters in the Gulf state of Qatar.
Iraqi troops north of Baghdad told Marines near the town of Samarra that they would shortly ?come in contact with a number of Americans,? Franks said on Fox News. The Iraqis apparently had been abandoned by their commanding officers as the U.S. forces advanced on Tikirt, the hometown of Saddam Hussein.
The United States had previously listed seven soldiers as captured in the Iraq war, including five members of an Army military maintenance company taken on March 23 when their convoy made a wrong turn in southern Iraq and was ambushed by Iraqi forces.


Pfc. Patrick Miller, 23, of Park City, Kan.; Spc. Joseph Hudson, 23, of Alamogordo, N.M.; Spc. Shoshana Johnson, 30, Fort Bliss, Texas; Sgt. James Riley, 31, of New Jersey; Chief Warrant Officer David S. Williams, 30, of Florida;
Army Chief Warrant Officer Ronald D. Young Jr., 26, of Lithia Spring, Ga.; and U.S. Army Spc. Edgar Hernandez, 21, of Mission, Texas.
The Washington Post, quoting a Marine commander near the Iraqi town Samarrah, reported that Iraqi guards brought the prisoners to the Marines.

Ronald Young Sr. identified one of the Americans from a shaky video shown by CNN as his son, Chief Warrant Officer Ronald D. Young Jr., who was listed as a POW after his Apache helicopter was forced down March 23.
?It?s him, and I?m just so happy that I could kiss the world!? the elder Young said. ?It?s him! It?s definitely him.?
A CNN reporter who was with the Marine 24th Expeditionary Unit that found the Americans said they were brought to an airfield about 50 miles south of Baghdad in ambulances and all ran or walked to a C-130 transport plane to take them to Kuwait. Two walked with a limp and one of those was a woman.

One of the seven raised his hand in victory, and the woman was carrying her own equipment, he said. Marines nearby applauded as they went past.
Two of the soldiers suffered from gunshot wounds and the group was flown to a medical facility near Baghdad, The Washington Post reported.

IRAQIS WILLING TO TALK
Officials had been sounding an upbeat note in recent days, saying more people were willing to talk and share secrets about potential POW sightings now that Saddam?s henchmen are gone.
?What we?re finding now is that the regime has been moved away, people will speak about what it is they know,? U.S. Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks at U.S. Central Command in Doha, Qatar said Saturday during a briefing. ?And so, we suspect that much of the information that will assist us either in finding prisoners of war from this conflict or previous conflicts ... will come by way of the elimination of the regime.?
The United States lists five other soldiers as missing and seven as prisoners of war.
Jessica Lynch, who was rescued April 1 from a hospital in the southern city of Nasiriyah after an Iraqi civilian tipped soldiers off, became the first POW to return home Saturday. The United States lists five other soldiers as missing and seven as prisoners of war.
Many of the 23 Americans held by Iraq during the 1991 war said they were moved often during their captivity. Many ended up in Baghdad, held either in the basement of what was then Saddam?s secret police headquarters or at the prison in the Rasheed military complex in southeastern Baghdad.

LYNCH RETURNS HOME
Lynch, 19, was taken by ambulance from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a huge campus several miles from downtown Washington, to recover from her head-to-toe injuries at the Army?s premier medical center.





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Some four-dozen wounded soldiers also were on the flight from Germany.
The former POW from Palestine, W.Va. was carried on a stretcher down the rear cargo ramp of the huge C-17 aircraft, while her parents entered a van.
?Our medical team finds Pfc. Lynch to be in satisfactory condition so far,? Maj. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, commander of the Walter Reed facility, said Saturday night in a statement.
?They will spend the rest of the weekend evaluating her more fully and continuing the care she received at Landstuhl. She will get the same outstanding medical care America expects all of our patients ? battle casualties and others ? to receive. We expect to have more to say about her condition tomorrow.?
Hospital officials said they expected to hold a news conference Sunday.
Her family said in a written statement issued in Germany that Lynch ?is in pain, but she is in good spirits. Although she faces a lengthy rehabilitation, she is tough. We believe she will regain her strength soon.?



An unidentified soldier, far left, escorts, from left, Chief Warrant Officer David S. Williams, Army Sgt. James Riley and Chief Warrant Officer Ronald D. Young Jr. to a plane in central Iraq on Sunday.




Servicewoman Shoshana Johnson, 30, Fort Bliss, Texas, prepares to board a plane in central Iraq after she and six other POWs were found Sunday



U.S. Army Spc. Edgar Hernandez, 21, left, Army Spc. Joseph Hudson, 23, center, and Army Pfc. Patrick Miller, 23, all of the 507th Maintenance Company, head to a C-130 transport plane on Sunday


Sempers,

Roger

[Hawk]

[Arrow]

I second those emotions...that little gal in Ft Bliss sure had some strong prayer warriors on her side. There surely was some shoutin' goin on ather Mama's house!

[Jerry D]

glad to see them coming home

[Tina]

God is really watching over our troops... When I got off work and watched cnn and seen the 7 pows comming home I started crying.. I was so happy when I first found out.. Now I am more then happy..

Got a phone call from a friend of mines (in iraqu) mom...
She got a letter from him and said he is doing okay.. Ready to come home but doing his duties..
When I first got the phone call my heart stopped.. I thought the worst.(thats nothing new for me)...
God Bless them all and watch over them..
Love ya
Your friend and God Bless,
Tina

[philly]

Great pictures. I hadn't seen them yet.

Oh, how the tears flood my eyes knowing they are free at last.