http://lima37.com/blog/2010/05/30/2nd-draft-ch-10-battle-of-husaybah/ Lima 3/7 in Iraq, 2003 to 2007 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:27:01 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://lima37.com/blog/2010/05/30/2nd-draft-ch-10-battle-of-husaybah/comment-page-1/#comment-6121 josh rutherford Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:27:01 +0000 http://lima37.com/blog/?p=3040#comment-6121 I was a machine gunner with lima company wpns plt, I was supressing the house when we took at4 shot, I was across the street from the house that cpl gibson lcpl smith lcpl valdez and captain gannon all died in,I was on a building rooftop across the street. I was also there when vanluven got shot in the street. At my level at the time I didn't even know that there were dead marines in the courtyard untill the fighting in that particular house was over. What I remember most was the insurgents yelling to the rooftop of the house to lt carrol f*** you americans. Eventualy I learned the facts, and was told we are not leaving untill the marines in that courtyard are recovered. So eventually the very fortified house caught fire and the insurgents came running out with guns raised, from that point on we faught our way back to our firmbase and set security on the outside perimiter. Waiting for an imenent attack. I'm not sure what the final count was but we were fighting house to house for 17 hours according to my memory. Marines.mil did a story while we were en route to conus, they intervued myself, lcpl tuttle,lcpl herbal about theincedents of that day. Ssgt rutherford joshua j currently school of infantry east combat instructor. I was a machine gunner with lima company wpns plt, I was supressing the house when we took at4 shot, I was across the street from the house that cpl gibson lcpl smith lcpl valdez and captain gannon all died in,I was on a building rooftop across the street. I was also there when vanluven got shot in the street. At my level at the time I didn’t even know that there were dead marines in the courtyard untill the fighting in that particular house was over. What I remember most was the insurgents yelling to the rooftop of the house to lt carrol f*** you americans. Eventualy I learned the facts, and was told we are not leaving untill the marines in that courtyard are recovered. So eventually the very fortified house caught fire and the insurgents came running out with guns raised, from that point on we faught our way back to our firmbase and set security on the outside perimiter. Waiting for an imenent attack. I’m not sure what the final count was but we were fighting house to house for 17 hours according to my memory. Marines.mil did a story while we were en route to conus, they intervued myself, lcpl tuttle,lcpl herbal about theincedents of that day. Ssgt rutherford joshua j currently school of infantry east combat instructor.

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