TWENTY-TWO PERCENT.... [View All]

[Bigmack]

I'm sorry to ressurect a 4 day old thread....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1822723

.....but CNN Headline news was just reporting the homecoming for the 3/25, and they said the 900 member battalion (I checked, and that's an accurate figure) suffered 48 dead and 150 wounded. In a RESERVE outfit.

That's a TWENTY TWO PERCENT casualty rate!
WTF? Is this WWI.... Verdun or Ypres?
I know that the 3/25 was a hard luck outfit, but this shit has GOT to stop!

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?...
10/3/2005, 12:17 a.m. ET The Associated Press

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — ...
Cheney is scheduled to address more than 4,500 Marines on Monday morning, including members of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines. The battalion, based in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park, lost 48 Marines in Iraq and had more than 150 wounded. The deaths included 14 Marines killed in back-to-back attacks within one week this summer...