Chapter 8
Out of the Fry'n Pan into the Fire
Upside Down Tale of the Tail of Air France 447
(Earlier character development, see http://captainsherlock.com/Chapter_25.html )
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“Chips used ally in Fargo to deliver Senator Byron Dorgan's Committee an offer to appear at 1430 on 10 June, 2009. All players to assemble for an Elroy's Reuben and cross-talk briefing at Ramshead. Tango West Clipper: “Big Red general Alexander Haig is a Knight of Malta as was Melchior de Robles ancestor of Joe Robles, Attorney-in-Fact for USAA tontine insurance racket operated from Big Red Virtual Pentagon in San Antonio. Entrust Hamish Clipper “Have alerted Captain Carlos Limon, President International Federation of Airline Pilots’ Association ifalpa@ifalpa.org Bombardier used Swinehood to sell AeroSat/Certicom backdoor key into the Honeywell ACARS system. Sidley agents disengaged Air France 447 autopilot to shake off tail and collect debt from AXA / USAA insurance claims after crash. Chips recognizes clue of DOGS THAT DIDN'T BARK while legitimate leaders turned things upside down to signal dire distress under flag code section 36, U.S.C. chapter 8. He alerts ‘We The People’. Queen Hornet ConAir Counsel in ‘90s said “They track us; we track them”. A white flash lit up the night sky. FFARs flew by Brief to backhaul Ku warning tale why Big Red fraggers, Sidley loan sharks and Psycho-Sarko DGSE shouldn’t mess with the Marines.
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A reference to Rams Head Ale and an Elroy's Reuben was a cryptic message for Stone and others who copied the Clipper call from Chips to Stone to assemble at Annapolis, Maryland ASAP for a meeting at table 101 in the right rear corner of the Rams Head Tavern at 1773 Old General's Highway, Crownesville, Maryland. Standard protocol was to walk in and avoid each other and order a specific sandwich and await a response from the server, after the server had talked to 'Chrissy' or her designee bartending at the Ram's Head pictured here, not to be confused with the Ram's Head in Annapolis or at the BWI Airport, the same airport where Our Man Chips had soloed in 1971 while a Firstie at Annapolis in the same class as Captain Chic Burlingame [ AA77 9/11 ] and Adm Tim Keating [ Commander, Northern Command, January, 2007 ]
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All recipients, including Hamish, Fish, Amelia, Agent B Covert, Tango, QB, Jam as well as many others, knew that if they got a 2 word communiqué via phone, email, or written on the back of a cocktail napkin that they should proceed ASAP to the Ramshead and order the sandwich. That means of taking different routes to arrive at the same point allowed them to cooperate without traveling together or with knowledge of each other's method of transportation. In the case of Chips, he would rely on an ally in Fargo to deliver a letter to a US Senator prior to a hearing of Senator Byron Dorgan's Committee that would occur at 1430 on 10 June, 2009. Stone had now been given his marching orders and even in the absence of any communication between other participants in AMALGAM Trident, Broken Cup, all players would assemble for an Elroy's Reuben. And on each food and beverage order placed would be a handwritten series [ 888# ] so that 'Chrissy' could be assured that the party ordering the Elroy's Reuben was legit. The beverage order would differentiate the Abel Danger UC participants; any drink with Captain Morgan would be Stone, any Red Bull beverage would be Tango, a Killer martini would be Amelia, a Captain Sherlock Martini would be Chips, a Shirley Temple would be [ redacted ] and so forth. Hamish would have his signature Earl Grey tea with lemon slice. While Abel Danger UC was working to support Senator Dorgan's meeting in Washington, US Marines were working asymmetrically in Afghanistan, Quantico and at FBI Headquarters in WDC.
"That's affirmation Stone" played back in the minds of Stone and Tango as they realized that Chips would never use the word 'affirmation' but the sublimely similar 'affirmatron' which alerted them to the fact that someone was listening to the communication between Chips and Stone as Stone was assigned to support Fish into Midway and then get out of the area ASAP. In the case of Fish he immediately signaled his understanding by misquoting Lloyd Bridges of the movie Airplane as it was not Lloyd's character sniffing amphetamines. However, those we oppose are not that ambidextrous between the ears and so these malaprops were going right over the heads of the haircuts and Crown Vic drivers as an LT1 Presential Limo with Minnesota plates 262-AZY was doing 90 miles per hour down I94 with undercover County deputies in support fore and after: the message must get through. The Abel Danger UC and Marines were 'always faithful' and would never bow to an illegitimate order from some Post Turtle such as the Squatter on Pennsylvania Avenue and not the ones at 1455 PA Ave NW, capeche?
At 1330 CDT on 9 June, 2009, Jam sent the message MAX EFFORT 888# to Chips, Hamish, Homi, Tango, QB Bravo, Stone, Hoss, Dwarf, Sluggo, Skymaster, Buck Naked and Gunny in Afghanistan, among others. That is the moment that the Octopus's world stopped turning.
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As of that moment, with Jam's legitimacy established by Jackson and Moose prior to the downing of 'Grape' and 'Pierre' the CF18s eliminated over the sleeping village of Newberg, North Dakota [ but never reported by the media ] all Abel Danger UC assets from OAIX to Midway Island went to 'engage' and 10 servers were readied to deploy Chapters 8 through 25 of Tontine Debt and Olympic Death from servers now including Russia and Antalya, Turkey. BVD and MIT were supporting this escalation and BVD doesn't refer to men's undergarments such as those worn by the Sidley Sows or USDOJ Pride folks trying to facilitate the Rockefeller, Soros and Rothschild TOPOFF of America attempted unsuccessfully on 11 September, 2001.
Fifteen minutes after sending her message, MAX EFFORT 888#, Jam had received encrypted acknowledgements from all addresses globally with the exception of Fish, whose LAST KNOW POSITION was the FBI Headquarters at 211 West Roosevelt, Chicago. Jam, Hamish and Chips had a 3 way regarding Fish's error in going into the anus of the beast, Chicago, where if America would be given an enema, the tube would be inserted in Cook County. Representatives of the Big Red 1 were about to meet representatives of the United States Marine Corps; THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE WITTY simultaneous to Chip's hand delivery to Senator Byron Dorgan's FIELD REPRESENTATIVE in Bismarck, Grand Forks and the home office in Washington, DC, where Civil Case 1:08-1600 would not be delayed by the sudden departure of an attorney who previously was in the disservice of America with USDOJ which is to be expected of Georgetown grads and their Jesuit French speaking and America hating friends of Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. Yes, the Bill Ayers who has been photographed stepping on the Flag of the United States of America. If the Marines of Abel Danger want him to learn not to do that he can rest assured the lesson plan is written and not at the University of Chicago who has deranged instructors, the University of Notre Dame who invites Abortion vermin to speak or Columbia University who just lost their $$ from Uncle Sugar due to their allowing the President of Iran to address the graduates. The same President of Iran who released Roxana Saberi, of Fargo North Dakota, pursuant to an offer made from Our Man in Eurasia, pictured here.
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After allowing time from 'green lights' from all addresses, Jam solicited Hamish, Rico, Gadget, Tango, Chips and QB to have a Clipper Conference on frequency agile 5, or in code FAV. Within 60 seconds the 7 were linked through an Entrust back door.
"Hamish, Jam, I need names associated with USAA, MDA, and Sidley who are likely to 'sing' like a Nightingale, you have 5 minutes."
“Entrust Hamish Clipper: Have alerted Captain Carlos Limon, President International Federation of Airline Pilots’ Association. He is active in IFALPA since 1996 initially in Accident Analysis & Prevention Committee and flies A320 aircraft for Mexicana Airlines and remains certified as IFALPA Accredited Accident Investigator. His email: ifalpa@ifalpa.org Interpilot House, Gogmore Lane, Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 9AP UK Tel: +44 1932 571711. Bombardier used Swinehood and MDA’s Friedman and Emerson to sell AeroSat/Certicom backdoor key into the Honeywell ACARS system to disengage Air France 447 autopilot. Sidley collect debt from AXA / USAA Property and Casualty insurance claim to be filed after the crash. That’s why Sidley’s lesbo loan sharks are celebrating on June 15. Message to Embraer. Big Red One USAA P&C Insurance Companies debt recovery service is now available through members' mobile devices including Black Barry’s Blackberry and Honeywell ACARS on AF 447. Hamish out.”
"Rico, please refresh us all on these names: MDA, Emerson, Mulroney and Airbus and add the corrupt university in the Maritimes as well as the law firm for which Mulroney disserved Canada, you have 5 minutes."
“Rico Clipper: Pass, I have to give it to you in Chapter 9. Have asked lawyers involved in Bombardier debt syndication, management and recovery and the GG war games on 9/11 to check out Yves Fortier; Fortier is Mulroney’s boss and a co-investor in the CAI Private Equity Group. These lawyers are beneficiaries of debts recovered through use of Certicom, AeroSat and Ku band antennae to destroy Air France 447. Rico out”
"Gadget, if Stephen Harper asks you to deploy RCMP assets to 3 Canadian cities to abort TOPOFF 2, which cities would you deploy to and why, you have 5 minutes."
“Gadget Clipper: Pass, I have to give it to you Chapter 9. Flash news of Juricert abduction or hit re police and firefighter games just come in. Need recce. Gadget out”
"Tango, a comment about any Big Red Georgetown grad or MIT grad you consider to be opposing our effort, you have 5 minutes".
“Tango West Clipper: Big Red general Alexander Haig is a powerful Knight of Malta; brother is a Jesuit. Melchior de Robles is ancestor of Joe Robles, Attorney-in-Fact for the USAA tontine insurance racket operated from Big Red Virtual Pentagon in San Antonio, Texas. Melchior was commander of preliminary relief force in the Great Siege of Malta in 1565 after the Ottoman Empire had invaded the island. Malta then held by the Knights Hospitaller also known as Knights of Malta. The Knights won the siege, one of the bloodiest and most fiercely contested in history which became one of the most celebrated events in sixteenth century Europe. Hard men; they will need to die hard. Tango out”
"Chips, give us 3 ways you can arrive at KBWI, KADW or KIAD before sunup on 10 June, 2009, you have 5 minutes."
“Chips Certicom: Abort with chaff due white flash. AF 447 ACARS tied to Bombardier combat support jet nearby which hijacked Airbus through Ku band. You can see the ACARS for Flight 447 here. PDF. Big Red commanders disengaged auto pilot system, faked auto flight message warning to trip flight control computers, transmitted warning flags to personal flight displays of captain and co-pilot and used Hillary’s QRS11 gyro patents with Thales to flip rudder and break off tail. Cryptic "213100206ADVISORY" at 02:14 GMT. Means “Fuck you and the horse you rode in on”. Bombardier’s hijack and debt recovery system developed by Beaudouins, Emerson at YVR and Queen Hornet ConAir Counsel in ‘90s. QH says “They track us; we track them” Chips out”
"QB, regarding Joseph Kennedy Jr's murder in the BQ8; remind us of any link to JFK and RFK and their videotaped assassinations. Which organizations deal in 'snuff videos' going back to Sharon Tate and the Fork Salute of Dohrn, Manson and the other sickos, you have 5 minutes."
“QB Entrust: Backhauling snuff to NBC Studios at 30 Rock and 14Ghz to Vivendi-Total. QB out”
"Please all report back on Clipper FAV at time X".
All 6 recips knew that X referred to the sum of messages (6) multiplied by the time indicated (5) produced a product of 30 which would then be divided by the number of movies delivered to FBI in the Resolution Trilogy (3) which indicated she, Jam, would be standing by in 10 minutes....30/3=10....capeche?
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As Chips pressed on for Washington DC and Dorgan's meeting at 1430 on 10 June, 2009, he received a message from QB at mile marker 112 on I94 heading east at 90 mph with country mounties on both bumpers in unmarked privately owned cars [ POC ] equipped with good radios and better tires. His driver up front had the hammer down while Chips monitored the Comm suite in the back of the LT1 powered 1995 Presidential Limo that was at Dorgan's office at 1330 on 9 June, 2009, 38 years to the day after Chips had graduated from USNA Annapolis with Chic Burlingame, the Captain of AA77 – the B757 that did not hit the Pentagon – and Adm. Tim Keating, the Commander of Northern Command who did not respond after receiving 'the package' on 11 Dec, 2006. Chips now recognized that the biggest clue of all was the DOGS THAT DIDN'T BARK while America’s legitimate leaders turned things upside down to signal dire distress under flag code section 36, U.S.C. chapter 8. He duly Ku-banded some pictures and messages to ‘We The People’ on what clues they and the Marines should be looking for …
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“Chips Alert for ‘We The People’ including the Marines: ‘Sec. 8. - Respect for flag. No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor .. a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.” Note videotaped hits of 9/11 were preceded, in this order, with hits on Joseph Kennedy, Jr, JFK, RFK and so on up to, and including, AF 447 which in the aviation world will be know as the Poodle that didn't bark. Joseph Kennedy was in a BQ8 hit and photographed from the Mosquito chase plane behind him. JFK was hit and videotaped by the folks that worked with AMEC to build tunnels in Viet Nam, RFK was hit by the same folks who built the tunnels in Viet Nam, and AF 447 was hit by the same folks who hit the 3 dead Kennedy’s. The Unbarking Frogs in France, Quebec and Ku Street know their Goose is cooked and the Air France deal was an attempt to deflect scrutiny. Recommend abort, I smell a rat, a French rat, perhaps a Georgetown grad friendly to the French American Foundation.”
Chips pressed on knowing that while QB [Agent Covert-FLA] had never been wrong, it would take 3 strikes for this batter to be out. As he tried to relax in the back of the Limo he found that there was great comfort in having County Sheriffs in the point and rear as Rolling Thunder pressed on to the east at 90 mph. The Bearcat, the Crickets and the skies were "all clear" not to be confused with Chips' suggestion to ALPA on 12-11-06 that they, ALPA, clear the skies of illegally modified Boeing jets. Had this been done, Adam Air 574, Kenya 507, Colgan 3407 and Air France 447 would not have become hull losses. The spilling of innocent blood, needlessly, after a specific and credible threat had been relayed to ALPA, DOD, FBI and an airline company. He thought back to VP Tim Campbell, R. Plunkett and the President of ALPA jp@alpa.org, who, like Peter Janhunen Manager, Communications, had been obstacles to airline safety, obstacles that would not derail Rolling Thunder.
At 2145, Chip's driver and he received updates from the Illinois escorts: friendly agents on a black Harley coming in behind limo to shoot evidence shots passing mile marker 93. Don't let the flash of the camera or the roar of the Harley alarm you. Authenticate Matt Poss, Rolling Thunder, Indiana.
As the driver looked in the rearview, Chips scanned the Crickets and saw a 'green' return closing from the same azimuth and distance as the reported Harley. He tapped 3 times on the rear seat to let Homi know the M249 SAW should not be employed on the closing contact.
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At 2145 the photo shots were taken and the Harley accelerated past the Presidential Limo to get into Indiana and join the rest of the Rolling Thunder Harley assets supporting US service men 24/7 around the globe. At 2146 Chips sent a Clipper FAV to Jam and the others indicating that pending two more abort suggestions, he could arrive at KIAD by helo, KBWI by Pelican or Brief, or KADW by an Air National Guard asset not to be compromised due to security. He reminded everyone that his 'clock number' would be traveling to KDCA on flights 1592 and 1702 to be in DC at 1039 EDT unless 3 threats prohibited it or Senator Dorgan's office asked him not to attend.
At 2152 and much closer to Indiana and the Rolling Thunder Harleys, who believed in the Right to Bear Arms, Chips took an unsecured message on cel ending in 1910 from Stone, cel ending in 4663.
“Dad, it is almost 10pm at the Rams Head, I just ordered an Elroy Reuben and a double Captain Morgan and root beer and used code 888#. Chrissy indicates I am the 'first Reuben to order'. Is there a change of Mission or can I have this double Captain Morgan and root beer, I am dryer than a popcorn fart. Stone”
Chips replied to his son that 'the show must go one' but not to have a second drink for 30 minutes. Chips was starting to feel the hour was getting late for Senator Dorgan to reply to his 'offer of service'. With QB suggesting abort, and Stone reporting no one else at the Rams Head at 1773 Old General's highway, he knew decision time was fast approaching. He also noticed the code PF and RB in the message; Stone never ate popcorn and never drank root beer. His advice not to have a second drink let Stone know that a flying mission could be ordered within the time of 'one-double'. As Chips pressed enter, not to be confused with the DEA asset LFC@pressenter.com in Wisconsin, he looked at the monitors on the Tango/Dwarf engineered C & C suite in the back of the Limo. He tried to relax. A Captain Sherlock Martini would be helpful but he still needed a clear mind to determine how best to support Senator Byron Dorgan, D-ND, as he labored against almost insurmountable odds to enhance aviation safety in the US. Almost being the key word.
As he read 'leaving Illinois' followed by 'Indiana welcomes you' he saw a formation of Harleys waiting on the right side of the road and he counted the bikes, 13 as per the briefing. At that moment his private cel ending in 1910 vibrated in his lap. He saw it was QB again, he wondered why a second call.
“Chips, Jam indicates your Clipper Squirt Gun not responding to her immediate, reboot and reply via TM on your cel”
Chips replied via TM to QB that he was rebooting and would call Jam if reboot failed. After his Clipper passed a BIT check following rebooting he got the delayed message from Jam.
“Strike 3, they are waiting for you on the Maryland border, Park Police choppers, black helicopters, and a Prince George County black Lincoln Town Car, CQ 888X, authenticate CQ.”
He knew decision time had come, and it wasn't the decision he had hoped for. His brief response to Jam, transmitting from a fishing boat of the end of Runway 01 at KDCA was:
“Jam copy CQ 888x, Carrier Qual-Continuing Qualification-Caribbean Queen, Chips, abort, invoke Pelican Brief.”
Chips had sent this only to Jam, Stone, Skymaster, Hamish and Tango. After sending the message he tapped on the divider glass of the Limo. Madam Thai Quan Dough motioned for Sluggo, in the right seat with a Glock 40 and a sawed off 12 gauge to lower the divider. As that occurred Chips instructed them
“Mission aborted at 2245, take the next opportunity to reverse course and proceed to the Indiana-Illinois border. This is not a drill.”
At 2251 Madam Thai Quan Dough noticed a 'service vehicle only' U-turn crossing and illuminated the purple funeral lights of the 1995 Super Trick and PW Presidential Limo. She watched, in peace, as 13 Rolling Thunder Hogs responded to her message in Purple, not to be confused with Purple Haze or 1999, and cut across the median and accelerated west bound with emergency flashers illuminated. As the 1995 Limo did likewise, a pair of Country boys from Indiana were on either bumper as the speedometers exceeded 100 mph and the County boys sent messages about 'the package'. Up ahead a group of 4 Illinois County boys awaited the arrival of not only the Rolling Thunder Harleys and the Super Trick PW LT1 Limo, but also the first responder of either Pelican or Brief, both Cessna 337 conversions had been called in to support.
As Stone had saddled up at KBWI he was at a disadvantage to Skymaster who was believed to have been in formation with ACE 1, the AC46K piloted by Chips with QB in the right seat and Jam in the VIP pod. Disinfo. Chips had never been in the AC46K for good reason. And Jam was on a fishing boat in the Potomac waiting for 'more shoes of the fisherman'. QB and Waylon smiled at each other as they harked back to the Otto Pilot of Airplane, a movie in 1980 that would get a resurgence in rentals as soon as the Dorgan Hearing of 6-10-2009 was 'history'. Don't mess with Texas. For that matter, if you are a Sidley SOW, don't remove F16s from Fargo....payback is a mother, not that the Lesbos of SA would know anything about motherhood. Two females cannot create an embryo any more than Larry Sinclair and the Post Turtle could...stronger message to follow.
As Madam Thai Quan Dough kept the hammer down, Sluggo in the right seat checked to see that his 'slicer' was still in his shoe in case things took a turn for the worse. As they crossed into Illinois, Skymaster called on Clipper FAV and Chips' Squirt Gun as well as the Dwarf/Tango C & C suite lit up like a Christmas tree. Not the Minot AFB Christmas tree, but the same colors .. red and green.
"Chips from Pelican, can be at the rendezvous in 3 minutes, Skymaster"
"Chips from Brief, can be OTG at Point R in 9 minutes, Stone".
"Stone and Skymaster from Chips, option B, no offense, Skymaster make a low approach to 30 feet and then go lights out and break north. Stone, signal green at Point R, Chips....no reply".
As the Harleys of Rolling Thunder surrounded the LT1 Limo, Madam Thai Quan Dough alerted Homi in the trunk to deploy parallel M249s from the missing backup light slots of the 1995 Limo. She told Sluggo to ensure he was 'locked and loaded', she reached into her purse and took out her cel phone ending in 2993, and sent an IM to Chips...YGM ready on your call + 5.
As the plan came together under the control of Jam playing homeplate in the Potomac Pelican made a low approach to the median of I94 7 miles west of the Indiana line, and upon crickets, broke right to the north as Stone rolled in in Brief, lights out to pick up his Dad. As the 13 Harley stopped and set up a grazing-interlocking-defensive FIELD of fire, the PFers of the Rockefeller-Soros-Rothschilds learned for the first time that their ass was grass. Stone landed his C337 Brief and his father immediately joined him in the right seat, Stone then cobbed the power from the Grassy Median, not to be confused with the Maurice Strong Grassy Knoll that took out JFK and Chips was airborne enroute to KFAR with a short release to Moorhead's airport just 2 miles west of the farm he has lived on since Judge D. D. O'Connor presided over the land snatch of the 'prettiest farm in Clay County, Minnesota'.
As Stone pulled the power back to METO, he reached around the seat and grabbed two Grolsch frosties, offering his Dad one. His father indicated that he appreciated the token offer, but that a Captain Sherlock was more to his liking at present. As Sable, in the back seat of Brief, prepared a Captain Sherlock, she asked if Chips wished it shaken or stirred. What would James Bond do? Not to be confused with WWJD or WWJBD. News at 11, grab some popcorn.
As Sable, Stone and Chips proceeded directly towards the Moorhead, MN airport, a FLASH message came into Chips' Clipper Squirt Gun: “Call me, Amelia”.
Chips dialed his sister's Clipper and they spoke briefly about the upcoming strike of Air France pilots; the modifications of privately owned large jet aircraft at Wallops Island and Austin Texas; the Colgan 3407 incident that incited Dorgan's 10 June meeting; the dialogue between Abel Danger UC and Air France, Airbus and IFALPA, and the fact that Senator Dorgan, his Field Representative and 'Franny' in WDC had not called to confirm or deny his attendance.
While Chips was enjoying his Captain Sherlock and preparing to lay out his plans for 21 June to his sister, his martini was thrown up against the right window of the C337 as Stone jammed the left rudder pedal in response to a 'crickets' at 6 o'clock and one mile. Had Stone jammed any harder, the vertical stabilizer surely would have come off.
At the same time a bright white vertical flash lit up the night sky. A bevy of 2.75 FFARs flew by Brief ‘last known position and unwittingly backhauled a Ku band warning tale why Big Red fraggers, Sidley’s loan shark lesbos and Psycho-Sarko’s DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure) shouldn’t mess with the Marines.
“Subject: USMC A Good Day for the Corps
December 11, 2008
Outnumbered 8-1: 'A good day for the Corps' By Peter Bronson".
Our vehicles came under a barrage of enemy RPGs (rocket propelled grenades) and machine gun fire. One of our humvees was disabled from RPG fire, and the Marines inside dismounted and laid down suppression fire so they could evacuate a Marine who was knocked unconscious from the blast."
That's not from an episode of The Unit or 24. It's not from an anti-war movie. It's not from any newspaper or TV news reports I could find. The quote comes from a "designated marksman who requested to remain unidentified." He was reporting what happened recently in the city of Shewan, Afghanistan. The story was told in a Marine Corps News report by Cpl. James M. Mercure. It will give you goose bumps and
make you want to stand up and salute the nearest flag.
Here's more, because it's a lot better than anything I could write today: "The day
started out with a 10-kilometer patrol with elements mounted and dismounted, so by the time we got to Shewan, we were pretty beat," the marksman said. Mercure reported, "Shewan had been a thorn in the side of Task Force 2d Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force Afghanistan throughout the Marines'
deployment here in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, because it controls an important supply route into the Bala Baluk district. Opening the route was key to continuing combat operations in the area." "The vicious attack that left the humvee destroyed and several of the Marines pinned down in the kill zone sparked an intense eight-hour battle as the platoon desperately fought to recover their comrades. After recovering the Marines trapped in the kill zone, another platoon sergeant personally led numerous attacks on enemy fortified positions while the platoon fought house to house and trench to trench in order to clear through the enemy ambush site.'
"The biggest thing to take from that day is what Marines can accomplish when they're given the opportunity to fight,'" the sniper said. '"A small group of Marines met a numerically superior force and embarrassed them in their own backyard. The insurgents told the townspeople that they were stronger than the Americans, and that day we showed them they were wrong."'
"During the battle, the designated marksman single handedly thwarted a company-sized enemy RPG and machinegun ambush by reportedly killing 20 enemy fighters with his devastatingly accurate precision fire. He selflessly exposed himself time and again to intense enemy fire during a critical point in the eight-hour battle for Shewan in order to kill any enemy combatants who attempted to engage or maneuver on the Marines in the kill zone. What made his actions even more impressive was the fact that he didn't miss any shots, despite the enemies' rounds impacting within a foot of his fighting position."
'"I was in my own little world,"' the young corporal said. '"I wasn't even aware of a lot of the rounds impacting near my position, because I was concentrating so hard on making sure my rounds were on target."'
"After calling for close-air support, the small group of Marines pushed forward and broke the enemies' spirit as many of them dropped their weapons and fled the battlefield. At the end of the battle, the Marines had reduced an enemy stronghold, killed more than 50 insurgents and wounded several more.'
"I didn't realize how many bad guys there were until we had broken through the enemies' lines and forced them to retreat. It was roughly 250 insurgents against 30 of us,"' the corporal said. '"It was a good day for the Marine Corps. We killed a lot of bad guys, and none of our guys were seriously injured."
'Such an amazing story of heroism and victory would have been on Page One in every paper in the country during World War II. Just 30 Marines giving eight hours of hell to 250 insurgents is the kind of story that would make a good movie - if that kind of movie still could be made. But these days, it did not even make Page 10. I couldn't find a story about it anywhere. The only mentions were on conservative blogs and military Web sites. The soldiers who are fighting for their lives and our country might as well be in another dimension. News from the battlefronts in Iraq and Afghanistan is apparently not important.
It reminds the jaded anti-war crowd that they were wrong. We're winning. It reminds a self-centered nation that some Americans are making sacrifices much bigger than a loss in their 401(k)s. So we don't hear about it. But we need to hear news like that, because a
good day for the Marine Corps is a good day for freedom. And that's a good day for America.”
