Highest-Ranking Female Officer Killed In Iraq Was Escorting Oliver North and Newsweek Journalists

[gatorboy]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003523039

NEW YORK Marine Maj. Megan McClung, a public affairs officer who became the highest-ranking woman killed in Iraq when she died two weeks ago, had been escorting Oliver North and a FOX News crew through Ramadi just moments before a roadside bomb took her life, a military spokesman told E&P on Monday.

When the explosion occurred on Dec. 6, McClung was in the midst of escorting a Newsweek staffer, according to Lt. Col. Bryan Salas, a public affairs officer stationed at Camp Fallujah. He said he did not know the identity of the Newsweek employee or the reason for the escort.

"My understanding is that Newsweek was with her at the time of the explosion, in a different vehicle," Salas said. "She had just dropped off the Fox News crew."

McClung, 34, had just left North, a Fox contributor, and his crew at the Ramadi Government Center following a 10-minute escorted drive from Camp Ramadi, a U.S. Army base there, Salas said. "It was her first and only escort with him," Salas told E&P. "He was covering the Marines in Ramadi." Many journalists go out without any military escort, even in dangerous areas.
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Way to go, Fox. You probably helped get this woman killed by having her escort you around. Just so you can write a puff piece on how GREAT things are going over there...

[vixengrl]

1. There's a parable in there somewhere but words

escape me just now. My respects to a Marine who gave her all.

[TacticalPeek]

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