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mahatmakanejeeves

(70,717 posts)
Fri May 18, 2018, 01:08 PM May 2018

Sgt. Maj. Brad Kasal is retiring today from the @USMC after 34 years. He is best known for ...

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Sgt. Maj. Brad Kasal is retiring today from the @USMC after 34 years.

He’s best known for his actions in Fallujah on 11/13/04, where he earned the Navy Cross & was photographed walking out of the “house of hell” after being shot 7 times and hit by 43 pieces of shrapnel.


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Sgt. Maj. Brad Kasal is retiring today from the @USMC after 34 years. He is best known for ... (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2018 OP
nt heaven05 May 2018 #1
SMJ, may I get you a cup of coffee? leanforward May 2018 #2
I've heard from several sources that Fallujah was just as intense as Iwo Jima underpants May 2018 #3
"He's best known for his actions in Fallujah on 11/13/04 ..." left-of-center2012 May 2018 #4

underpants

(197,177 posts)
3. I've heard from several sources that Fallujah was just as intense as Iwo Jima
Fri May 18, 2018, 02:08 PM
May 2018

I have a step-relative who was there at the beginning. Brutal.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
4. "He's best known for his actions in Fallujah on 11/13/04 ..."
Fri May 18, 2018, 02:27 PM
May 2018

George Bush lied us into the Iraq War

So many American and allied troops killed and wounded.
So many Iraqi civilians killed.

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