PACIFIC OCEAN (March 22, 2019) U.S. Marines with the Maritime Raid Force, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), wait for transport aboard the Harpers Ferry-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) to conduct visit, board, search and seizure training. The Marines and Sailors of the 11th MEU are conducting routine training as a part of the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group in the eastern Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Adam Dublinske)







PACIFIC OCEAN (March 22, 2019) Reconnaissance Marines with the Maritime Raid Force, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), climbs down a caving ladder to board a rigid-hull inflatable boat from the Harpers Ferry-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) to conduct a visit, board, search and seizure training mission. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Adam Dublinske)



PACIFIC OCEAN (March 22, 2019) A rigid-hull inflatable boat drives away from the Harpers Ferry-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) transporting Marines with the Maritime Raid Force, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to conduct a visit, board, search and seizure training mission. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Adam Dublinske)

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U.S. Marines with Marine Aerial Refuel Squadron VMGR-252 conduct an aerial refuel for a CH-53 in support of Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 2-19 in Yuma, Ariz., April 6, 2019.
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Marines with 2nd Marine Division prepare to sling load two Utility Task Vehicles onto a CH-53E Super Stallion, with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464, during a field exercise on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, April 4, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Nathaniel Q. Hamilton)
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USAF F-15E Strike Eagles assigned to the 494th Fighter Squadron conducts flight operations at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, April 11. The 494th conducts routine training daily to ensure RAF Lakenheath brings unique air combat capabilities to the fight when called upon by United States Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa. (U.S. Air Force photos/ Tech. Sgt. Matthew Plew)











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"That's All, Brother", a Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft, stands ready to fly again on the flightline on April 11, 2019, in Birmingham, Alabama. The aircraft was saved from being scrapped when historians discovered that it saw action during World War II as the lead aircraft during the Normandy invasion on June 5, 1944. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Lee Murphy)









 
New Film Pays Tribute to Marines Who Stopped Truck Bomb Attack in Ramadi
Six seconds. Not enough time to do much of anything, but Cpl. Jonathan Yale and Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter made their last six seconds on Earth count in a way that has passed into Marine Corps legend.
Their astonishing heroism in stopping a truck bomb attack that threatened the lives of scores of Marines and Iraqis is now the subject of a short film that will have its first screening next month.
Joshua DeFour, the student director of the movie, said his main challenge was avoiding caricatures in portraying the two young riflemen.
"I felt this sense of responsibility" to depict the 21-year-old Yale and 19-year-old Haerter as the complicated human beings they were on the fateful morning of April 22, 2008, said DeFour, a former Marine sergeant and combat correspondent who served in Afghanistan.
His 23-minute film "The 11th Order" will get its first screening May 19 at the Hogg Memorial Auditorium at the University of Texas in Austin as part of his graduate thesis, but he said it wouldn't have happened without the approval of the mothers of the two Marines -- Rebecca Yale and JoAnn Lyles.
DeFour said he spoke with Rebecca Yale for two hours to get her permission to proceed with the project.
"The gist was that it was still a very painful thing to bring up," he said.
Yale and Haerter gave their own lives to stop an attack that likely would have killed the 50 Marines and 100 partnered Iraqis behind the gate they were guarding as sentries in the flashpoint town of Ramadi.
Lyles agreed to the project after speaking with DeFour and meeting the actor who would play her son.

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Well, i mean Fallout game :)
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Ahh..I'm 65 years old. I've never played video/computer games...well except for Galaga & Angry Birds.









U.S. Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment (Attack Reconnaissance), 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, wash a AH-64 Apache helicopter April 16, 2019, at Katterbach Army Airfield in Ansbach, Germany. (U.S. Army photos by Charles Rosemond)



A U.S. Soldier with 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment (Attack Reconnaissance), 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, conducts routine maintenance on a AH-64 Apache helicopter April. 11, 2019, at Katterbach Army Airfield in Ansbach, Germany. (U.S. Army photo by Charles Rosemond)


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Members of the Coast Guard Maritime Security Response Team West trains for a simulated terrorist threat aboard the motor vessel Aurora while in transit from Cordova to Whittier, Alaska, April 10, 2019. Alaska's cold weather and constantly varying climate provided the ideal training environment for all local, state and Federal entities involved. U.S. Coast Guard photos by Petty Officer 3rd Class Lauren Dean.



Members of Coast Guard Maritime Security Response Team West train aboard a 33-foot Special Purpose Craft-Law Enforcement boat for a simulated terrorist attack aboard the motor vessel Aurora while in transit to Whittier, Alaska, April 10, 2019. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Lauren Dean.



A member of Coast Guard Maritime Security Response Team West trains for a simulated terrorist threat aboard the motor vessel Aurora while in transit to Whittier, Alaska, April 10, 2019. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Lauren Dean.


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Perhaps off-topic, but Mrs. OldCode and I visited Mt Soledad Memorial yesterday. It's a memorial to those that served, both those that survived and those that fell. It offers sweeping views of San Diego. The Memorial has been subject to a multi-year lawsuit that wants it torn down (it was on government land, and so shouldn't have overtly religious symbols on it - separation of Church and State). Happily, the land was transferred to the Memorial organization and it can now stay.


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