thedrifter
12-06-05, 12:18 PM
December 12, 2005 <br />
Marine News Breaks <br />
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Marines deny raping Filipino woman <br />
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Five Marines on Nov. 29 denied raping a Filipino woman, and two said they were not even present when the alleged assault...
thedrifter
12-06-05, 12:20 PM
December 12, 2005 <br />
Around the Corps <br />
Compiled from military and other public sources. <br />
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Iraq <br />
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Fallujah bomb kills 10 Marines, injures 11 <br />
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Ten Marines from Regimental Combat Team 8 were killed in...
thedrifter
12-06-05, 12:22 PM
December 12, 2005
‘Die Hard’ troop fan
Apparently, actor Bruce Willis believes the troops in Iraq are not getting the recognition they deserve. To rectify this, he plans to make a movie, according to this report excerpted from the Nov. 27 edition of the London Sunday Times.
Angered by negative portrayals of the conflict in Iraq, Bruce Willis, the Hollywood star, is to make a pro-war film in which American soldiers will be depicted as brave fighters for freedom and democracy.
It will be based on the exploits of the heavily decorated members of Deuce Four, the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry, which has spent the past year battling insurgents in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul.
Willis attended Deuce Four’s homecoming ball this month in Seattle, where the soldiers are on leave, along with Stephen Eads, the producer of “Armageddon” and “The Sixth Sense.”
The 50-year-old actor said that he was in talks about a film of “these guys who do what they are asked to for very little money to defend and fight for what they consider to be freedom.”
Unlike many Hollywood stars, Willis supports the war and recently offered a $1 million bounty for the capture of any of al-Qaida’s most wanted leaders. ... Willis visited the war zone with his rock-and-blues band, the Accelerators, in 2003.
“I am baffled to understand why the things I saw happening in Iraq are not being reported,” he told MSNBC, the American news channel.
He is expected to base the film on the writings of the independent blogger Michael Yon, a former Green Beret who was embedded with Deuce Four and sent regular dispatches about their heroics.
Ellie