Pictures of Marines in war in Iraq

[thedrifter]

Members of the U.S. 15 Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) keep low in the port of Umm Qasr in southern Iraq (news - web sites), March 22, 2003. Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) told British forces in a broadcast on Sunday that despite suffering casualties from 'friendly fire' the military campaign in Iraq was proceeding according to plan. (Picture taken March 22). REUTERS/POOL/Simon Walker

[thedrifter]

.S. soldiers from 1st Marine Expeditionary Force stand guard near a burning oil well at the Rumeila Oil fields Sunday, March 23. 2003 in Iraq (news - web sites). Several oil wells have been set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in the Rumeila area, the second largest offshore oil field in the country, near the Kuwaiti border. (AP Photo/Ian Waldie/Pool)

[wrbones]

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[Sparrowhawk]

Members of the U.S. 15 Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) fight a pitched battle with Iraqi forces at the port town of Umm-Qsar in southern Iraq (news - web sites), March 23, 2003. Photo by Pool/Reuters

[thedrifter]

building receives tank fire from U.S. Marines beside the port of Umm-Qasr in southern Iraq (news - web sites) on March 23, 2003 as pockets of Republican Guard resistance remain in a residential area beside the port. U.S. forces used planes and tanks on Sunday in a battle to dislodge at least 120 Iraqi Republican Guards were reported to be dug in. Photo by Desmond Boylan/Reuters

[thedrifter]

.S. Marines keep watch over displaced Iraqis, in the port of Umm-Qasr in southern Iraq (news - web sites), March 22, 2003. U.S. forces used planes and tanks on March 23 in a battle to dislodge Iraqi fighters from the port town, where at least 120 Iraqi Republican Guards were reported to be dug in. (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)

[thedrifter]

.S. Marines run for cover from Iraqi fire in the port of Umm-Qasr in southern Iraq (news - web sites), March 23, 2003 as they met pockets of resistance from Republican Guards in a residential area beside the port. Iraqi troops and paramilitary fighters loyal to President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) held up a U.S. advance toward Baghdad on Sunday, inflicting casualties and taking American prisoners on the fourth day of war. (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)

[wrbones]

Brits on patrol

[Sparrowhawk]

Originally posted by wrbones
Brits on patrol

Great pictures Bones, Gosh those brits sure are lucky I'm not there.

I would walk up to them in their mini skateboard and ask?

"What's it gona be when it grows up?"

[mrbsox]

'bones,

They look like more fun than 'mules'

M274; Platform,1/4 ton,4X4

[greybeard]

Drifter-anybody ever ask ya why your sword's in the wrong hand??

[Sparrowhawk]

U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment emerge March 25 from a hospital outside Nasiriyah that they said had been taken over by Iraqi forces. Several platoons took part in the operation to secure the hospital, with no reported loss of American lives

[Sparrowhawk]

A wounded Marine is helped to treatment during an intense firefight March 23 just outside Nasiriyah, a town on the road to Baghdad. Nine Marines were killed when an Iraqi unit indicated it was giving up, then opened fire. About 40 Marines were wounded. The photo was only received March 25.

[Sparrowhawk]

A yellow ribbon adorns a tree along the Pacific Coast Highway outside Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, Calif. Thousands of Camp Pendleton Marines have been sent to Kuwait and Iraq -- leaving behind anxious families -- and five have given their lives.

[Sparrowhawk]

A U.S. Marine from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit cautiously enters a Iraqi command office kitchen at the Iraqi naval base in Az Zubayar, in the southern Iraqi desert, on Sunday.