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Old 10-11-2011, 01:42 PM
Graebarde Graebarde is offline
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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly View Post
LOL! Tell me about it!

Just Cause was not one of the 7LIDs greater moments. I've talked to people who were assigned to the old 193rd Infantry Brigade and the comments about the light fighters are, brutal.

And I keep hearing rumors that a barracks on one of the US bases was targeted by the 7LID after they had received enemy fire from there....

It must be something in the water out at Ord!
My son was ending his first term at the time, stationed in Panama with the 1-508th. They rotated Light Fighters/Marines in before the incursion (as my son points out "we were already there so it was NOT an invasion" LOL). He said they (LF) had fire fights with howlers and fireflys in the jungle at night.

As for coordination with light fighters and tanks, it could have been some unit OTHER than 7LID that interacted with the tanks. The boys in 193IB were ALL light fighters, as was the eighty-douches once they were feet on the ground. But it was easy to ID the 7LID with their 'cool' ghillie net helmet covers.

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