Operation Phantom Fury: The Turning Point of the Iraq War
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Published 2024-02-09
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My cousin was a Marine killed in operation phantom fury, but I was too young to enlist prior to the start of the campaign. Thank you for this overview.
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2nd Lt Blecksmith…was killed there 11 November clearing houses. My sister graduated HS with him. 😢
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I remember when we had 128(ish) Iraqi police snipers vanished a day after graduation. They were US trained and equipped. All their gear disappeared with them. Any time we found American gear we had to call in and, if there was time, wait for investigators to come.
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I have been fascinated with the battles of fallujah since i was 12 years old, when they happened. Ive studied it endlessly, and for me this video is the best hands down retelling of the second battle of fallujah. It gets almost everything right and includes so many things often left out or glossed over by other sources or retellings.
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It's great how we blame the uniformed soldiers, who actually tried to clear the city of civilians, for civilian deaths instead of the insurgents using them as human shields.
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The irony of Simon being sponsored by a hair loss company is pretty funny to me 😂
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Long live Simon. The patron saint of new content 🎉😂❤
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In an entire month of house to house fighting, only 800 civilians were killed in a city of tens of thousands. This is the single lowest civilian casualty rate in the entire history of urban warefare. Frankly, its the single most astounding and important fact to know about the entire battle. Its absolutely stunning.
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Six Days in Fallujah, span of the six bloodiest days in the battle for Fallujah. It was dropped by Konami for the controversy surrounding it and remained in limbo until 2021. The restarted game was announced in 2021 with publishing of Victura and developed by Highwire Games. Early access release was in June 2023, and follows 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (3/1) as they the Iraqi insurgency in the city of Fallujah, Iraq.
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To all my brothers who made the ultimate sacrifice during this time, thank you. You are not forgotten by some of us.
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At this point , a random picture of SpongeBob wedged in the middle of the video wouldn't surprise me.
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Bush declaring Mission Accomplished so Early reminds me of Reagan invading Grenada for National Security reasons, lol.
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Deployed twice to Fallujah. AFTER Operation Phantom Fury. Those men are legends and warriors.
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I’d like to see you do a video on the Algerian Civil War. Or maybe you could put it on Into the Shadows considering how messed up it was
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That’s awesome that you mentioned the Seabees. Hardly anyone knows about us and what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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If you want to hear a great first hand account of the battle of Fallujah, go listen to Cody Alford’s interview on the Shawn Ryan Show. He’s a great story teller and he paints a vivid picture of how brutal the battle was.
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Important to note: despite the city of Fallujah being practically razed to the ground, only 800 civilians died total in the month of fighting.
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Rest in peace to those that passed away.
