The military installation is quite large, that photo is over a mile away. The Iraqi's fleeing like cowards abandoned it when their forward observer post reported the U.S. Marines were advancing.
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Some of the damaged Marine Corps vehicles I retrieved being loaded for shipment back to the USA.
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Look how isolated everything is. The people have all left fearing the war is not over.
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An Iraqi Oil Well on fire. That fire is miles away and you can smell the burning oil, it fills your lungs as the wind shifts.
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One of the Iraqi Oil Storage Tanks in the desert, it's near a pipeline.
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3 comments:
I was in the middle of Baghdad and Al Qaim and various other places.
I was in Iraq # 1 under the first Bush and it's amazing how everything in the desert looks the same at a distance until you get on top of it.
very interesting great pics better than cnn
thanks for your service to our country
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