Thank you for your service. Please be well and take care.

thank u brother

Idk why people say ''thank you for your service''. After all, it wasn't you that planned to invade a independent country. You were forced. I feel sorry for you and all of your friends that died for nothing.

@@War_Gaming_RUS Funny words from a Russian person. Look at your history of invading countries with no reasons.

@@War_Gaming_RUS true

Did ur grandson ASK

@@claudiaclaudia936 No grand kids yet lol, still young

Same here Marine.. I was an Abrams TC with Army 1-64 Armor during Thunder Run 20030405, took 2 tries to get up Hwy 8. Lost a LOT of Battle Buds over there. I can't imagine trying to deal with today's bullshit. Thanks for your Buddy- Oorah

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I was but I wouldn't want to have been in Afghanistan .and yes just grateful my 21 year old son has yet to make me a grandpa yet but captain spot on ,but I'll be on my deathbed before I tell him the truth😢

bruh are u still alive ?

Thank you for your service. I hope you’re well now. Please take care.

Damn i feel old lol..thank you for your services

Haha Afghanistan. So how was it to hear that you lost the war and a lot of your friends died in vain?

@@War_Gaming_RUS Umm, yeah, and Russkies won there..? You guys got your asses kicked during Winter War, Continuation War, Afganistan, and now in Ukraine.. 😄

I miss your mom

@@tayloranderson440 bro shut up

Good

@@tayloranderson440 shut up

The best marine era

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@@mslimali1136only usa 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

Amen

Glad to help

faisal jaafar alharki good job my friend 👍🏻

Love you brother

what security and stability?

I thought this was COD damn..

@@Po7ent that guy august is a troll , this is REAL COD right here bro the graphics are just that good now.

Call of duty doesn't have shit on these guys,each an every one an I play warzone. Nicely put sir

@@moderatemexicanamericanpat4904 😁

@@Po7ent gets on radio calls uav

you lied to invade iraq !...you destroyed a cohesive and controlling secular stable regime !...you caused a chaos and an occupation resistance war !...you provoked intentionally a sectarian war to make the iraqis fight each other rather than fighting the occupation , and unfortunately you succeeded !...you caused an atrocity that massacred at least 500,000 iraqi people !.... and after all that , somehow you are the good guys !؟ , and somehow you are convinced that you could make the iranians abandon their nuclear , missiles and chemical programs , so you can do it again !؟

Lol ever heard of the Nuremberg trials. There excuse was I was just following orders. They still were hung.

@@Jack-oz4bf Lol ever notice that the guys who were hung were the losers of the war?

@@talebdaas Wasn't Saddam the one who murdered people's family members for talking bad against the government? Not to mention SKUD missiles are classed as WMDs and Saddam had a nuclear reactor along with the fact that Isreal has been hit by tons of SKUDs sent by Saddam.

No shit I didn’t no that.

Only in certain parts of the country

vincealinceable not hard to tell why you fought like warriors and some went out like one to RIP

I miss my brothers , 3/7 , 304th CA BDE from there NOT the country

I love every one of you

any WMDs ??!!

Fortes-Fortuna Juvat your welcomes any time my friend, Iraq is very safe nowadays but this virus thing is changing a lot of things.

Thank you who ever liked my comment 🙋‍♀️ ❣️ 💞 💗 💖 💖

most everyone from the first wave anyway

Did he die or get wounded?

My cousin was 1/2 Charlie. Donald Cline.

The marine in the last minutes talking to Iraqi s civillians is he descendants of maltes?

Thanks for your service🙏🏼

Glad u made it home safe bro

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We still have troops in Iraq.

We all did.

scooter 4rd ford???

I was 5 years old when Iraq was invaded.I don't remember it like you since I was too young to even understand what was happening at the time.I do however remember seeing and hearing about the Iraq war on the news.I even remember seeing 9/11 on the news.Anyway im 20 now and going to enlist soon.

I was six when they captured Saddam. I remember my dad telling me that a coworker of his (who is now my boss) was very happy when it happened. He and his brother and parents are Iraqi, they spent quite a lot of time on the run, hiding in caves, only coming out at night, using grenades to catch fish on the occasion.

I think I was as well about 11 or 12 I think I'm 31 one now. Time flies,nothing has changed though. Still can't stop watching these videos.

My exact thought dude😂😂😂 I was like my best friend had that shirt

Sad that you’re proud of it.

l am from I am from Syria and I do not hear this insult to Iraq.

Yeah, it's because this video was early on in the war before the insurgency came and different kinds of weapons were introduced and the Marines had to adapt. In some other early videos, you'll see Marines riding in Humvees with no armor or even doors since IEDs weren't a problem yet. Merely adaptation is what it is.

I don’t think so, I’m a bit of an equipment buff (also civilian) but I think they might be wearing more here than they do now, I think your confusion might come from a lot of newer gear and clothing is a bit more bulky because it has more internal padding, now a days everything is on a modular system using plate carriers and packs, back then it was flak vests with web gear and Alice rucks, also they had to carry chemical suits and masks back then, they definitely carry more today and in early Iraq war period than in Vietnam. Still to this day it shocks me how little those guys actually carried, just seemed like nothing but ammo and some water

Post invasion 2003 was still different

Early on in the war, you can tell by the uniforms and equipment. Im a civilian who has never served and I can tell you that.

لقد تم قتله في العراق

My cousin was there in 03 also. Fought and died in the battle of Nasiriyah Lclp Donald J. Cline Thanks you for your service. Im happy you made it home.

I am Iraqi and trueeee

I mean there wasn’t much of a choice. The Ba’ath party wasn’t going to work with the US. Who do you think the “insurgents” were?

First thing I said when I hear him speak

That’s because in “the early days” it was about killing people and breaking shit which is what the early days of war are Supposed to be about! Damn!

You make ranger?

If you mean Armadillo that was in Afghanistan.

I think woodland camo BDUs and PASGTS looked way better than ACUs and ACH helmets. I don't like digital camo and ACH helmets look too small.

ACUs sucked, they literally blended in with nothing

After

MrLetsgotrojans are you out now lol

@@storman4482 Wondering the same

GreenmanTypeOneg yeah me to bud. They didn't show a lot of anything. I think I read where someone said this was a Reserve unit from June of 2003. If you were with TFT during the start in March we would have already been gone. Our ships hit Onslow Beach at the end of June 03'. Semper Fi brother.

my dad did 2 tours in Iraq as well

Mike Shrout thank you for your service

TF Tripoli here oorah

0311?

Mike Shrout Can’t thank you enough for serving our country protecting U.S. soil

I was there also. Semper Fi.

Cole Lawton well since MARPAT was introduced in the early 2000s just around this time it was in the phase where Marines were outdating the old uniform pattern. Also regulations may had been a bit weird at that time.

You should seen how ugly the early MARPAT were they were mostly black instead of green and zipped off the sleeves

But the Marine Corps changed the pattern up and boom Digis became MARPAT

360Nomad yup, Only Marines right out of recruit training had it

I’m guessing you’re a Kurd

there wasn't enough interpreters to stick one with every element.

I dont know you a lick,but I'm proud of you.

Yawn...

Did usa win? Hell no usa lost again like Nam! #FakeWar

Damn, i was born in 03 so seeing footage like this, puts me in a whole new perspective as i had no idea wtf was going on obviously, thank u and to our men n women during iraq, middle east, everywhere n anytime.

Appreciate you fighting for democracy. I look at kids now and pray for the future service men. My grandfather was a marine in Vietnam served 2 tours as a marine. You guys kick ass,Then again our whole military is something else.

@@Jaysin999 03 dang man. 9/11 was crazy. 2001. I was at school,that changed everything in me. This division amongst everyone is wild. You couldn't pull us apart during those times. I feel like war changes people even if you didn't go but your aware of what's going on it'll do something to you.

There weren't enough to be assigned to every unit which is why we started hiring locals.

Callsign

That was a call sign , imagine if everyone used the standard alphabet it would be mass confusion , we changed call sign frequently to keep insurgants confused and never getting a fix or Target any one fire team which also eliminated any bounty on a Marine. It shows how much technology has changed the way we fight wars , no more black book with names and seized equipment it's all recorded digitally and hq gets info instantaneous and added to database now there's no way it captured they could gain valuable Intel and position of Marine units. Pretty soon ground infantry will be very rarely used , air combat is the game. Drones , unmanned armoured vehicles and robots will be winning wars for us . The 0311 MOS will be faised it out sooner than later.

Legit. I was there 05-06 and again 08-09. The early war/invasion period up to the Sunni awakening and Anbar awakening period seemed like a whole different time.

@@gatermap It was not a awakening, but a faulty policy and building an unsound nation, which led to destruction to this day.

He quoted General Patton

No not any more, usually top brass do get to keep some things. But boots can't.

Join now then there could easily be another invasion soon .

YellowBlue RC I didn't say an invasion would take place in precisely a year, and anyway Nato have sent a considerable amount of man power back to Iraq, also lets face it they probably have some boots on the ground in Syria right now.

Yeah but the guys from 06-10 that gets most of the credit for everything, the VA won't even fucking acknowledge the invasion guys

I joined in 2000 and NEVER imagined a real war

Paul Dailey what was your reaction when 9/11 happened? Did you know you were going to war?

When the war started in 1991, I called the army recruiter and asked what I have to do to get into the fight. he said they were getting too many people trying to get in and I needed to call back later. Anyway, I think it just wasn't my fate to be in the military. The Lord spares some from war because we have a different job to do.

I went. it sucked balls. not at all like what you think. be glad you didn't go

Sean Sullivan wanna feel like you did something or was apart of something? Paint a school, donate too charity, give too the homeless..theres other ways of doing so without invading another country..i am set too join here pretty soon..but im not doing it too be apart if history or too shoot some people or even too keep piece in a different country..i want too join too be there for the guy (or girl) next too me wearing the exact uniform i am..i want too join too take a bullet for a total stranger if i have too..its about the brotherhood and camaraderie and its about keeping our way of life how it is too this day..its not about being apart of history..no disrespect but it seems like you wanted too go too kill Iraqis and be there for the spearhead of the invasion..im sure you know war is hell,and from every vet, video, book, or article ive read, no one goes too be shot at or step on IEDs or whatch civilians die in the middle of it but they go too prevent their newly formed brothers from falling victim too those very things..its awesome too be patriotic and too love your country, but its not awesome too be the guy who tells people further down the road that they were their when sadams statue fell, and they watched as many people were uprooted from their homes, forced out of their homes, killed, or worse..but when you tell them that yeah i saw it but i was making sure my guys, my soldiers or marines were all safe and secure in this god awful fucked up situation the government dropped us in

Name Not found couldn't had said it better. I'm enlisting into the Marines someday God willing, and I am doing it for the honor and loyalty. War breeds a certain brotherhood no one will normally have, and I want that brotherhood. It never occurred to me that I want to enlist to be a part of something historical but then again, I want to go out to war because there are people who just can't fight for themselves. SO many people hate on the American military and it's allies but at the end of the day, we're mainly trying to fight to help people. Or at least those who are intelligent. Everyone has a calling, a mine is to go halfway across the world to liberate a village from radicals or militants so that those people can live THEIR lives without having to be in constant fear. I don't wish that on American people, so why would I for anyone else y'know?

Name Not found When you hear all these war stories from vets and read about the battles that Marines have fought since ww1 its sounds badass and makes you want to join and be apart of it.I don't blame him for that and alot of guys joined to go to war.This might sound crazy, but some guys actually like the adrenaline of combat.

My cousin was killed in Nasiriyah on march 23rd. Lcpl Donald J. Cline. Did you know him? Thank you for your service and im glad you madde it home. This is and old comment i know but im really trying to find some of the guys that served with him. I hope you are doing good.