Surviving Fallujah: Marine’s Untold Battle with War's Trauma

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[@DNI_27]

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[@PageTurnersbooktube523]

crazy how ROE's in Iraq was pretty much shoot a dude with a shovel and when I was in Afghan, it was if a dude shoots your homie next to you and then turns his back....he was no longer a threat and you weren't supposed to shoot them. Crazy.

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[@NoBody-tz4fb]

Damn, my unit took 75 casualties on my last deployment. I thought that was crazy, 167? Y'all were in the shiiiii

[@tylertaylor470]

Learning about Fallujah is my favourite part of GWOT history, something about the COIN and conventional warfare in urban combat coming together is wild to me. The sheer volume of fighters in the city.

[@G.Harley.Davidson]

It’s the same story again and again and it’s stuck with me for over ten years now. The lack of structure, identity, and fraternity when you get out.

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[@wilmoney4201]

Wow, I was in Okinawa back in the early eighties and my roommate was Korean, and he would never leave the base. Something about the history between Japan and Korea. We would rotate duty as NCO' s and ride thru the place where the Marines party and pick up the drunk Marines and take them back to the base. They use to say, get them before the JP's get them.

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[@TeresaGill86]

"We basically laid siege to the entire city of Fallujah; destroyed like two thirds of the city; created like 200,000 refugees, & killed possibly up to 6,000 civilians. It was a really bad, bad moment & I was part of that, unfortunately. I mean, this was absolutely catastrophic for the people living in Fallujah... The whole mission was kind of structured indiscriminately. Our command told us that there were no civilians in the city; that everyone we were going to face in the city were combatants. They told us they were hardcore terrorists & that was actually not true. There were 50,000 civilians still in the city because we did not allow military aged males to leave the city. Anyone from age 15 to 55 were not allowed to flee the city. So they were forced to stay in the city and make due & then we bombed the city very indiscriminately for the weeks leading up to the siege - to the actual ground siege. Then during the ground siege, we used indiscriminate weapons and indiscriminate tactics. An indiscriminate weapon for example being the white phosphorus which you'd drop from the sky & it comes down in these big fireballs that kinda drift in the wind & cover not a precise target but a big area of land & we also used tactics like reconnaissance by fire which is house to house fighting, so if you don't know what's in a house, if you don't know if there's fighters or if there's anybody at all in the house, you fire into it first & then if you hear screaming or moaning or whatever, you can be sure that there are people in there & we would assume that they were combatants & then we would bulldoze the house to the ground. If you heard nothing, it was probably safe to enter. By definition, that tactic is indiscriminate and it's a war crime & this is how we conducted ourselves during the 3 weeks of this operation." -- Ross Caputi, U.S. Marine veteran, HuffPost Live video interview titled: 'The Siege of Fallujah Ross Caputi talks about his time as a soldier in Iraq'

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Love the stories. Brings.back.memories. I rode that transit from Palm springs to 29 when I first arrived too. It took us all the way to the receiving squad bay, back in the day, if you caught one of the few that were base runs. Walmart. Probably yucca valley 29 kind of sucked as a boot comm bubba in school. I remember Top's taxi and his raggedy Dodge caravan and a wire out gray limousine taxi we would take to Palm Springs. Group rates .lol Camp Wilson and Gypsum ridge, black mountain. Yeah they sucked too. But there was way worse out there I'd learn later on. 29 mwr takes good care of the Marines. Went back as a civilian contractor and it was a blast There is so much to do in the 29 area that we never realized as boots and transients. To the many boots stuck there or young Marines, get off the base. Go to Joshua Tree Natl Park or 49 palms oasis. Make the trip to Big Bear, or go check out death valley, or the Amboy crater. If you're into racing, there are dirt tracks not too far away, if you are into dirt bikes and quads, everyone rides them in the trails off base and there Are also off-road recreation parks ran by the state, that are free to camp and ride on, with you annual sticker. And be glad you don't have Okinawa swamp ass, or chewed up by mosquitoes in Lejeune and the stank ass marshlands. Yeah lake bandini smells terrible, but the winds change and the recycled poo water tastes great 😂 Also we used to jump the fence, over the bus stop outside Hansen in omi (coming in from Kinville, back when we used to have Cinderella Liberty)

[@altoids79762]

“The real world is fake” I remember in bootcamp my DI said “you guys left the fucking matrix, this is the real world” that stuck with me. Then when I deployed to the Middle East less than a year later. It completely made sense.

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He started talking about eating healthy as a polished off a large supreme pizza by myself. Lol

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Thanks for sharing your story, brother. S/F

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Loved this !! Amazing story and told so well !! Thank you both !! 👏🏼

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Thumbnail might have the wrong quote??

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He said typical low income family then said he went to a private school. Bruh

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[@0311-z2c]

Oh and your insides.. the brain chemistry. Your hormon3s from the constant lifestyle we lived . When thr hormones are thrown totally out of wack...you'll be fucked. I think that has to do with it as well.

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I seen throat chops, knees into recruits pushing a dude down the stair well in a trash can, smacking rifles into people faces that was in 2006. Indy 500 CRUSH THE HOUSE lol Skuzing around the racks in the center of the house.

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bullshit, throat chops could lead to death, i highly doubt a professional DI would do something like that. pushing dude down the stair well LMAO, that could cause serious injury, which mean end of recruit trianing.

[@EnlistedBombin]

@@heyahole1 Doubt what you want I know what I seen. We even had a School circle with the battalion officer asking about it but no one said shet... after that dude got caught stealing MRE's before worrior week they made him run up and down the whole base carrying a CPR dummy yelling "I am a Fat Boy and steal MRE's".

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@@EnlistedBombinkind of reminds me how things were when I was first starting…..the 1990’s were a different beast…. Retired in 2015…..irs sooooo very much different these days.

[@0311-z2c]

The suicide rate is higher b3cause in ww2 and Korea. And up. It has to do with society. I believe when thru returned at least thry had somewhat of a society that was all on the same page . Anotjer sense of belonging ....take a lool at society today....every man for himself

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It's alot of things that come together for a terrible outcome

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I believe the western world society men is the weakest in history due to politics, cancel culture, and all the stuff that comes with it... I am not referring to the military or soldiers in anyway!

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Agreed. I moved from a country with terrorism to Canada and people back home had patience and came together more than people here. I cannot imagine going through so much and returning to such a lack of empathy.

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❤ yr story stay well