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BarnBuster

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Police arrest 2 for assault on 'Hell House' Marine
By Travis J. Tritten
Stars and Stripes
Published: February 23, 2016


WASHINGTON — Police made two arrests Monday following the assault earlier this month of a decorated Marine outside a fast-food restaurant in Washington, D.C.

A 17-year-old male was charged with aggravated assault and a 17-year-old female was charged with robbery. Both are from Washington and were not named by police due to their age.

A third person was suspected in the Feb. 12 attack, which victim Christopher Marquez said was racially motivated. Police said the investigation is continuing.

“The kids were asking me if I think that black lives mattered,” Marquez told USA Today this month. “I was ignoring them, just because I felt intimidated. I felt how they approached me, it was very hostile. I felt they were really trying to intimidate me and just trying to start a confrontation with me.”

A surveillance video released by police last week shows a black male assailant in a white tank top punch Marquez in the head from behind as Marquez walked out of a McDonald’s on E Street across from FBI headquarters, according to police.

Marquez, 30, is a Bronze Star with “V” device recipient who fought in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004 and served until 2011.

After being punched, Marquez fell to the ground where he was robbed by the female suspect and then kicked in the head, police said.

Marquez was one of three Marines in an iconic photo taken during the second battle of Fallujah. He was photographed carrying a fellow Marine whose uniform is blood-soaked from a wound during the so-called Hell House battle during which one Marine was killed and 10 were wounded.
 

BarnBuster

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Navy SEAL to receive Medal of Honor for U.S. civilian rescue in Afghanistan

By Meghann Myers, Navy Times 11:48 a.m. EST February 3, 2016

A senior enlisted SEAL will be the first sailor in a decade to receive the Medal of Honor, for a mission to rescue an American civilian hostage in Afghanistan in 2012, according to a Tuesday release from the White House.
President Obama will present Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Edward Byers with the nation's highest award for valor in a Feb. 29 ceremony at the White House, the release said.
Byers’ actions were so clearly beyond expectation, even for a Navy SEAL, that the Navy had no hesitation in nominating him for the Medal of Honor, according to a defense official familiar with his case, but not authorized to speak publicly about it, told USA Today
 

6ohMax

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Anyone here think Iraq was worth it?

Didn't do the Iraq thing. ..always Afghanistan for me....

Some locals liked us ....most wanted us gone......I'd go back again...


Worth it? Nothing over there is worth it....we do it cuz were ordered to....we volunteered. ...I do it again


Not many people would say that
 
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abe supercro

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would it have helped if I had added JK + :)? I always forget to add that stuff.

The only post of yours I didn't like was the gratuitous nazi meme, other than that it's all good. I'll try to be nice, but I've been assigned to you as a hall monitor :shock:
 

undercoverfbi

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Im young and think this conventional warfare bullshit is stupid

Until America is fighting a country or something big- there aint no money worth reason to use our forces to settle minor conflicts

Could have and still can join military....my fellow graduating classmate who have enlisted says they wish they went to college instead

Warfare should be handled by Heavy Objects
 

Singlemalt

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How does a guy that tough get taken out by a 17yr old punk?
Anyone can be sucker punched. Marines have esprit but they aren't gods, so does Army; but ya have to be geared in the moment. I was Army and we had lots of brawls with Marines back in the day, but I have no doubt had that Marine been forewarned, it would have turned out different.
 

Corso312

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I got a lot of buddies who are marines n some are bad MFers..but they were bad MFers before they enlisted..and some that ain't too good with their hands..but they couldn't fight before they enlisted.. I do know NONE of them would have been sucker punched like that and Never would have turned their back on this pussy..
 
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