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mahatmakanejeeves

(63,539 posts) Fri May 18, 2018, 01:08 PM May 2018

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Sgt. Maj. Brad Kasal is retiring today from the @USMC after 34 years. He is best known for ...

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Sgt. Maj. Brad Kasal is retiring today from the @USMC after 34 years.

He’s best known for his actions in Fallujah on 11/13/04, where he earned the Navy Cross & was photographed walking out of the “house of hell” after being shot 7 times and hit by 43 pieces of shrapnel.

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Sgt. Maj. Brad Kasal is retiring today from the @USMC after 34 years. He is best known for ... (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2018 OP

nt heaven05 May 2018 #1

SMJ, may I get you a cup of coffee? leanforward May 2018 #2

I've heard from several sources that Fallujah was just as intense as Iwo Jima underpants May 2018 #3

"He's best known for his actions in Fallujah on 11/13/04 ..." left-of-center2012 May 2018 #4

heaven05

(18,124 posts)

1. nt

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Fri May 18, 2018, 01:18 PM

May 2018

leanforward

(1,098 posts)

2. SMJ, may I get you a cup of coffee?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri May 18, 2018, 01:21 PM

May 2018

underpants

(189,228 posts)

3. I've heard from several sources that Fallujah was just as intense as Iwo Jima

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri May 18, 2018, 02:08 PM

May 2018

I have a step-relative who was there at the beginning. Brutal.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)

4. "He's best known for his actions in Fallujah on 11/13/04 ..."

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri May 18, 2018, 02:27 PM

May 2018

George Bush lied us into the Iraq War

So many American and allied troops killed and wounded.
So many Iraqi civilians killed.

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