As I usually focus on your Soldiers and your Army, it is important to note that your Marines are right there in the thick of things making a difference in this Global War on Terror, especially in the battle for Iraq. From Villanous Company comes this most outstanding of posts, highlighting what one Marine General on the front lines is seeing, both good and bad.
What we are seeing now is a significant shift in the tribes. They are coming over. How does this manifest itself? How is it more than just my words? The Sunni sheiks are having their young guys join the Iraqi police. The reason is they will go to their local areas after they go to training academies in various countries outside of Iraq and they return, when they come back, they go back to their home areas.
So you’ve got the tribes shifting over, their kids joining the police. You’ve got the Iraqi army and the Iraqi security forces today, they are probably running around, about 52 percent of the casualties in our medical treatment facilities are Iraqi security forces. Which says something about the nature of the fight and the nature of the Iraqi troops who are now represented among the casualties. It’s one way to indicate whether or not they are really in the fight or not.
So these are significant shifts right now. And the transition teams and the Marines who are over there, fighting in a very lethal area where the efforts have been unrelenting, have basically achieved successes that we would not have anticipated this early in this process.
Read the whole post, you won’t regret it, in fact, share it with your MSM contacts, that IS an order soldiers! Sgt Hook out.
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