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04-03-2007, 05:12 PM
Marines building amid bombings
Humor helps engineers keep their wits about them as they work on outpost near Fallujah
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, April 1, 2007
KARMAH, Iraq — Their humor is crass, but it sustains their sanity in the combat sandbox that is Iraq.
“Look alive boys, we’re about ready to go in the devil’s butt hole,” Gunnery Sgt. Richard Thomas barked late Thursday night as his convoy of combat engineers and transportation support company Marines from Combat Logistics Battalion 6 prepared to enter the volatile city of Karmah, on the outskirts of Fallujah.
full story here:
www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=52343&archive=true
Humor helps engineers keep their wits about them as they work on outpost near Fallujah
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, April 1, 2007
KARMAH, Iraq — Their humor is crass, but it sustains their sanity in the combat sandbox that is Iraq.
“Look alive boys, we’re about ready to go in the devil’s butt hole,” Gunnery Sgt. Richard Thomas barked late Thursday night as his convoy of combat engineers and transportation support company Marines from Combat Logistics Battalion 6 prepared to enter the volatile city of Karmah, on the outskirts of Fallujah.
full story here:
www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=52343&archive=true