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Tanks with nicknames such as Carnivore and Prom Queen roll into the first hamlet, and the Marines fan out, searching houses. A loudspeaker blasts a message in Arabic: Stay in your houses. We are here to help. "This is a place taken out of thousands of years ago when Jesus was walking the earth still," says Corporal Omar Monge, 20, driver for the battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Bryan P. McCoy. A village elder approaches the battalion translator. Tell everyone not to be scared, he is told. But tell them if they shoot one bullet they will be very scared...
...surreal two weeks. After eight- to 10-hour rehearsal days, we went to the beach, line dancing clubs, a luau—a different party for every night. Tyson foods sponsored a prom for us. Hundreds of down-home ’bama boys were interviewed as possible dates. I don’t know how effective the scanning process was for the final 50—while every guy was definitely hot, Utah’s date didn’t show up and Florida’s reeked of Bacardi...
McCoy acknowledged later that the moment was probably overwhelming for some of his young Marines. "Up to now," he said, "the biggest knock they've ever taken is being turned down for the prom. I don't think they understand yet the combat capabilities they possess. But they will once they start attacking...
...Tanks with nicknames such as Carnivore and Prom Queen roll into the first hamlet, and the Marines fan out, searching houses. A loudspeaker blasts a message in Arabic: Stay in your houses. We are here to help. "This is a place taken out of thousands of years ago when Jesus was walking the earth still," says Corporal Omar Monge, 20, driver for the battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Bryan P. McCoy. A village elder approaches the battalion translator. Tell everyone not to be scared, he is told. But tell them if they shoot one bullet they will be very scared...
Bright Eyes, along with Cursive, the Faint and other Saddle Creek Records bands represent the thriving indie pop scene in Omaha, which still has ties to Mendenhall and the Prom. In fact, all three of the other bands that played the Cambridge show—Mayday, The Good Life and headliners Rilo Kiley—are on Saddle Creek...