This is way off topic. But I am sharing the following story because some of you know Matt Swan from years ago. LCpl Swan is with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 25th Marines, the unit at the focus of the following article.
From the Hartford Courant.
BATTLE-HARDENED IN CALIFORNIA
Hot Breath Of War In MojaveBy JESSE HAMILTON
COURANT STAFF WRITERMarch 12 2006
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. -- In the Mojave Desert of California, somewhere between Palm Springs and nowhere, is an Iraqi village built for the U.S. Marine Corps.
An Iraqi flag jerks in the desert wind above neighborhoods where people in traditional Arab dress walk the dirt streets. They gather, laughing and smoking, sometimes arguing, Arabic curses punctuated by jabbing hands.
Often, many times a day, they pick up guns and shoot at Americans.
The village is like an impressionist painting, more a suggestion of reality than a copy. Several months ago, $16.5 million worth of materials in massive shipping containers and carpentry had produced the newest way to teach Marines how to deal with the threats they will face in Iraq. Among the first battalions of Marines to train at the desert village is one from Connecticut. Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 25th Marines.
Read the entire article here.
I don't know the details but they will be moving overseas in the next month or so.
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