In typical fashion of some one who doesn't know the shit, you lack the detail that gives proper discernment of the subject matter.

The SEAL who wrote the story, was on the ground and maneuvering with the Marine Infantry, was referring to the first assault in April of ?04.  It?s clearly noted.

In that assault there were no Army units involved in the major fighting within the city.

The  Marines were originally ordered into Fallujah in Apr ?04, 1 week after the Marines took over the AO fr/ the Army?s 82nd AB.  5 months after insurgents forced the 82nd to withdraw fr/ Fallujah, 5 wks (late Feb ?04) after the 82nd refused to help the Iraqi police who were engaged in a 6hr gunfight during a prison outbreak in the city when 27 IPs were killed and over 100 insurgents were freed and a BCT fr/ the 82nd was based at the ?Mek? less than 15min away.  I?m sure the soldiers wanted to help but the commanders lacked the balls.

This is my point, you still talk shit.  ?The guy in my article?, the writer, is:

1)       A respected Operator & Commander of a SEAL Task Unit.  

2) BUDS Class Honorman who knows about putting out& earning respect. 

3) Was on the ground making tactical decision watching young Marines killing and dying in such a way that moved him to write what he wrote. 

Reflecting the same words stated by one America?s Greatest General 50yrs earlier, Army Gen MacArthur, after watching Marines maneuver & kill and in both Korea and Japan.

The question is who the Fuck are you?

There?s more, a long list of respected warfighters & Elite units that have fought w/ or against Marines.

It was Commander of US Forces in WWI Army Gen Black Jack Pershing who said, ?The deadliest weapon in the World was a Marine & his Rifle? when pressed by his Army staff on why he allowed finally the Marines to form into a single Brigade and fight using their own tactics.

This was the same Brigade that days later went after &crushed the Ger. Div that the rest of the Allies were retreating fr/ at

3 areas where all Armed Forces are headed, all Marine Corps firsts:

• Expeditionary Warfare
• brits have done this for literally centuries it's hardly new.
  
• Combined Arms Warfare
• brits and germans wrote the book on this before ww2.
  

If you would have taken 10min to look up what ?Expeditionary Warfare? is you would have realized that thats far fr/ Expeditionary Warfare.

EW is a totally integrated Combat-Logistic-Support-C4/ISR Force that can task organize for almost any mission, being able to mobilize as a total unit on very short notice.

Combined Arms Warfare is total integration btw all Fires into a single unit under a single tactical command all done to provide close fire support to maneuver units on the ground.

To perform CAW you need personnel trained & Certified to control all fires(Mortar, Arty, Fixed Wing, Rotary Wing, Naval Gunfire, Land/Sea Based Missile Systems),  Marine Corps has the only personnel structured and trained to do this as one unit.  This is why ANGLICO attaches units to all US Allied Forces, to assist them in their Combined Arms Planning.

2nd ANGLICO lights up Germany during fire support training

MUNSTER SOUTH TRAINING AREA, Germany (Mar. 12, 2007) -- For many Marine units, pre-deployment training includes trips to the parched, sandy deserts of Southern California, but for the 2nd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, II Marine Expeditionary Force, their training took them to the lush green countryside of northwestern Germany.

Approximately 40 Marines, three sailors and one soldier from 2nd ANGLICO, came to the Munster South Training Area, near Hamburg, Germany 1-18 March to participate in exercise Combined Thunder, an annual German exercise that focuses on fire support coordination and execution.

During the two-week exercise the Camp Lejeune, N.C. based ANGLICO team worked along side German soldiers assigned to the Panzer Artillery Regiment 100 and Panzer Artillery Battalion 125, coordinating fire support during a virtual battle at the historic training area.