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To: LindyBill who wrote (38246)	4/6/2004 8:52:21 PM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 793957

I am afraid from the Marine casualties that they are performing too many frontal assaults LB, The Marine casualties seem grim only if you listen to the news. 12 Marines is a terrible loss. But perspective is needed here. It is one rifle squad. Less than one 15 man USMC recon squad. One fourth of a platoon, one sixteenth of a rifle company. It is .00048 of the MEU in that AO. It is a fraction of the casualties inflicted according to back channel reports. This is not indicative of a careless frontal assault much less several. It will barely get a mention, if that, in the history of the USMC.