Shaffer
01-16-03, 10:19 AM
The young Marines - a dead enemy beside them knelt amid broken glass and spent shell casings in a dilapidated two-story building in the desert and planned their attack.
Their objective: secure a single-story duplex apartment defended by a handful of enemies.
The occupied building was just another steppingstone toward the Marines' goal. A sergeant and lieutenant barked orders on how they would move and cover one another as they stormed the building.
As they burst two by two out of the building, each hefting more than 25 pounds of gear, the sound of machine-gun fire rattled off the brick walls and resonated through the parking lot until they reached the target building.
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Their objective: secure a single-story duplex apartment defended by a handful of enemies.
The occupied building was just another steppingstone toward the Marines' goal. A sergeant and lieutenant barked orders on how they would move and cover one another as they stormed the building.
As they burst two by two out of the building, each hefting more than 25 pounds of gear, the sound of machine-gun fire rattled off the brick walls and resonated through the parking lot until they reached the target building.
http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208%7E12588%7E1110805,00.html?search=filter