Shaffer
12-15-03, 08:27 AM
For Camp Pendleton Marines and their Navy counterparts, it was a "Ooh Rah" kind of morning Sunday.
News of the capture of Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit was being celebrated throughout this military community as a signature on what the military was trying to accomplish when the war with Iraq was in full swing. It is also a harbinger of a calmer and less violent immediate future in that country, they said.
At the entrance to the Naval Weapons Station adjacent to Camp Pendleton, the military police on duty Sunday morning were all smiles. And so it was for everyone coming onto the base and leaving.
"Everybody's really happy," said Petty Officer 1st Class Myles Fry. "Especially the older veterans. They think this will mean a lot in how things go from here."
Fry learned of the capture of the former Iraqi president at "0300 when I woke up and flipped on the news. It's great."
Sgt. Sean Okusko, an aviation weapons specialist who spent seven months in Iraq, said he got a call from his staff sergeant Sunday morning with the news.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/12/15/news/top_stories/12_14_0311_56_09.txt
News of the capture of Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit was being celebrated throughout this military community as a signature on what the military was trying to accomplish when the war with Iraq was in full swing. It is also a harbinger of a calmer and less violent immediate future in that country, they said.
At the entrance to the Naval Weapons Station adjacent to Camp Pendleton, the military police on duty Sunday morning were all smiles. And so it was for everyone coming onto the base and leaving.
"Everybody's really happy," said Petty Officer 1st Class Myles Fry. "Especially the older veterans. They think this will mean a lot in how things go from here."
Fry learned of the capture of the former Iraqi president at "0300 when I woke up and flipped on the news. It's great."
Sgt. Sean Okusko, an aviation weapons specialist who spent seven months in Iraq, said he got a call from his staff sergeant Sunday morning with the news.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/12/15/news/top_stories/12_14_0311_56_09.txt