DoD Identifies Marine Casualties # 1208 & # 1209

[saigon68]

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No. 1175-04
IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2004

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http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2004/nr20041117-1547.html

DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
The Department of Defense announced today the death of two Marines who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.



Capt. Patrick Marc M. Rapicault, 34, of St. Augustine, Fla.



Lance Cpl. Antoine D. Smith, 22, of Orlando, Fla.



Both Marines died Nov. 15 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. Rapicault was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif. Smith was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif.


i CASUALTIES CONFIRMS AS # 1208 & # 1209 http://icasualties.org/oif/

[livinbella]

1. When did we pass 1200 dead?

I seem to have missed the last ten or so.
They just keep rolling in, don't they?
Seems like the country does not even give a fuck.

[saigon68]

3. YESTERDAY.. NOV 16TH

BUT IF YOU CHECK THIS OUT YOU SEE THERE WERE 11 KILLED ON THE 15TH

http://icasualties.org/oif/prdDetails.aspx?hndRef=11-2004


They only list 2 for the 16th

And NONE YET TODAY.


The marines are very very secretive.

[llmart]

2. Let Freedom Reign!

says the yellow-bellied chickenhawk in the WH.

[leftchick]

4. pretty fucking bad month saigon....

It looks like it may beat last year's record breaker. Bring the trooops home.... :(


Military Fatalities: By Month
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
11-2004 88 4 0 92 5.41 17
10-2004 63 2 2 67 2.16 31
9-2004 80 3 4 87 2.9 30
8-2004 66 4 5 75 2.42 31
7-2004 54 1 3 58 1.87 31
6-2004 42 1 7 50 1.67 30
5-2004 80 0 4 84 2.71 31
4-2004 135 0 5 140 4.67 30
3-2004 52 0 0 52 1.68 31
2-2004 20 1 2 23 0.79 29
1-2004 47 5 0 52 1.68 31
12-2003 40 0 8 48 1.55 31
11-2003 82 1 27 110 3.67 30
10-2003 43 1 2 46 1.48 31
9-2003 30 1 1 32 1.07 30
8-2003 35 6 2 43 1.39 31
7-2003 47 1 0 48 1.55 31
6-2003 30 6 0 36 1.2 30
5-2003 37 4 0 41 1.32 31
4-2003 73 6 0 79 2.63 30
3-2003 65 27 0 92 7.67 12
Total 1209 74 72 1355 2.22 609

[saigon68]

6. Yes LC its bad and getting worse.

Its going to be hard to "Civilize" the Natives

[leftchick]

8. we know they never will....

I am thinking a DRAFT in Feb. 2005. What do you think?

[saigon68]

13. NO NOT RIGHT YET.

The handlers of the Sock-Puppet Chimp are waiting for another 9-11. Then you will see all hell break loose.

They will limp along in the meantime by using illegal mexican immigrants, 49 year old school teachers and hotel clerks and anyone else they can convince to fight for "freedom".

Then there is this group of killers (the true hard corps), who will stay in Iraq-Nam for long extended periods because many of them "like it there". To them war is kind of like a never ending deer season with human prey to stalk and kill. Kind of like the troop named Bunny in "Platoon". The one who used to like to bash the gooks heads in with his rifle butt.

[Az_lefty]

5. Sheesh, I didn't realize we hit 1200.

[UpInArms]

7. RIP Patrick and Antoine

alongside your 1207 brothers - with possibly 100,000 Iraqis and a few of the coalition of the willing and bought thrown in for good measure.

RIP with all of those that have been murdered by the call to war from the illegitimate crowd that occupies our nation's capitol.

For all of your souls, I can only wish for peace, knowing that the very same people who sought your death (and I speak of the governmental minions) care not a whit what they have done.

Thank you Saigon for reminding us all of the cost.

:(

[NorthernSpy]

9. icasualties says the total is 1211 now

This is how Vietnams happen: the KIA total stops being front page news, and eventually it stops being news at all. People notice, and then they don't. It's becomes a routine thing like the weather report, with the occasional big storm, and a steady drizzle of losses that go unremarked most days.

Multiply this past week -- and the general nonreaction to it -- by several years of active conflict, and you start edging toward a Vietnam-level body count. What's missing are the great lots of conscripts being shipped out and dropped into the meatgrinder. There's no draft yet. But the legal machinery that supplies this last element still exists, and it seems they've been cleaning the gears recently...

[Media_Lies_Daily]

10. And the beat goes on.

[seemslikeadream]

11. HOW MANY MORE GEORGIE, HOW MANY MORE?

[Eloriel]

12. My how time flies

and Americans (and Iraqis) die.

Just a really quick note to thank you for this solmen duty you perform, Saigon68. You do more to honor to our fallen than the entire administration. I salute and thank you for it, even tho I don't always post in your threads.

BTW, I married my first husband in 1968, and he went off to Vietnam 17 days later. Came back in one piece (for the most part). Served with the Army (Engineers) at Bien Hoa air base.

[saigon68]

14. Thank you

I don't enjoy it at all.

I have this terrible feeling that very few people really care what is going on.

The Sinclair Thugs who repfused to broadcast Night-Line are actively trying to supress honoring the fallen poor and minorities who are the bulk of these casualties.