Two Embeded Reporters Say Thanks to Marines

Posted By Blackfive

Thanks to Kathy D. for sending the link to this story about two journalists from the Detroit Free Press who thank the Marines that they embedded with...here's a part of their post about the Marines:

The men who tried to kill David and me could not be reached for comment. The most we can say is that at least one of them fled through the dark city streets and blasted buildings in downtown Fallujah after trying to blow up our Humvee patrol.
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...They're trained to do their jobs, not talk politics or debate the war for reporters. Gunnery Sgt. Brian Ivers, a Colorado resident who is serving with the 1/24th's Alpha Company, told me not to worry when he invited me to join his patrol for a middle-of-the-night raid on an insurgent weapons stash. "If anybody comes at you," he said with level certainty, "I'll just shoot 'em, and we'll be good to go."

Ivers said he is "Australian by birth, American by choice and U.S. Marines by the grace of God."

He grew up in Australia. When he was 6, he saw John Wayne in "Sands of Iwo Jima" and knew then he wanted to be a Marine. He became an American, he said, to "be a citizen and not a subject."...

Go read the whole piece.

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Two Embeded Reporters Say Thanks to Marines

Thanks to Kathy D. for sending the link to this story about two journalists from the Detroit Free Press who thank the Marines that they embedded with...here's a part of their post about the Marines:

The men who tried to kill David and me could not be reached for comment. The most we can say is that at least one of them fled through the dark city streets and blasted buildings in downtown Fallujah after trying to blow up our Humvee patrol.
<...>
...They're trained to do their jobs, not talk politics or debate the war for reporters. Gunnery Sgt. Brian Ivers, a Colorado resident who is serving with the 1/24th's Alpha Company, told me not to worry when he invited me to join his patrol for a middle-of-the-night raid on an insurgent weapons stash. "If anybody comes at you," he said with level certainty, "I'll just shoot 'em, and we'll be good to go."

Ivers said he is "Australian by birth, American by choice and U.S. Marines by the grace of God."

He grew up in Australia. When he was 6, he saw John Wayne in "Sands of Iwo Jima" and knew then he wanted to be a Marine. He became an American, he said, to "be a citizen and not a subject."...

Go read the whole piece.

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