OIF: The Fight for Baghdad
Beginning on 1 April 2003, this film features Coalition Forces’ fight for Saddam Hussein’s capital. The film opens with the fight for Objective PEACH, covers the battles for objectives around the city, and concludes with Soldiers and Marines meeting up in downtown Baghdad. Third Infantry Division's successful seizure of downtown Baghdad in April 2003 essentially signaled the end of Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime.
At 50 minutes, this film is filled with current U.S. Army doctrine, virtual terrain, historical footage and photographs, and interviews with the Soldiers who served in first phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
Introduction - 0:00
Enemy Disposition - 3:41
Seizing Objective PEACH - 4:43
Defending Objective PEACH -10:55
Objectives SAINTS and LIONS - 15:08
Isolating Baghdad -21:27
The First Thunder Run, 5 April 2003 - 25:20
Preparing for the Second Thunder Run, 6 April 2003 - 32:13
The Second Thunder Run, 7 April 2003 - 35:51
Winning the Fight for Baghdad - 44:44
Credits - 47:59
Extra Credit Scene - 49:57
Doctrine:
Line of Operations (ADP 5-0) - 2:40
Hasty Gap Crossing (ATP 3-90.4) - 5:38
Convergence (ADP 6-0) - 8:44
Bridgehead Force (ATP 3-90.4) - 11:24
Kill Box - 12:17
Blue Kill Box - 13:00
Purple Kill Box - 13:15
Final Protective Fire (ADP 3-90) - 14:43
Mission Command (ADP 6-0) - 16:39
Reconnaissance in force (FM 3-0) -24:48
Covert Breach (ATP 3-90.4) - 36:33
Decentralized Execution (ADP 6-0) - 38:46
Main Command Posts and Tactical Command Posts - 40:58
Main Command Post - 41:07
Tactical Command Post - 41:21
Command Post Survivability - 43:08
Resupply (FM 3-96) - 45:55
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I’m an Iraqi who lived and grew up in Baghdad! Still remember these crazy days! Especially when the Americans reached Baghdad international airport! Our house was at the sw side of Baghdad which is couple of miles away from the airport! It was Thursday around 4:30 pm when starts hearing rockets, tanks fire and air strikes going crazy! We had to leave the house as everybody in the neighborhood did! I Went back next day Friday morning around 10 am to pick up some food and got my german shepherd dogs with me! I found couple of Fada’ain Saddam in our house! They took some clothes to change and leave safely without their uniforms! I was happy Saddam gone but worse than him came to power!
Were the dogs ok?
I was in the 1st Armored (triangle patches, if you remember). Although our mission was for combat operations, I wish the military as a whole would have helped you all better. A lot of us did actually care. I hope you are well, stay safe...
@@tyates4398 yes, I took them with me to central Baghdad
@@xsixinfantryx Thanks man, it was really tough days, hope u doing well
@@jaybazzaz1587 Glad you all made it safe, real mess of a war that was
حيا الله القوات الأمريكية المحرره للعراق والعراقيين من صدام والبعثين وحيا الله الرئيس جورج بوش وجعلها في ميزان حسناته
Great video. That first week of April 2003 changed my life forever. I was one of those wounded at OBJ SAINTS. Rock of the Marne!
Thank you and bless you!
did you get dead?
Great video and well done. I served in OIF III and love learning about how everthing before I got there played out. Thank you to all my brothers that served during the invasion.
we never should have gone into that horrible evil stupid insane pointless war just like vietnam so many americans killed and maimed for nothing just like vietnam why the hell would anybody support that war i really cant understand just like vietnam was completely pointless horrible and extremely tragic so many young adults died for nothing
انتم غزاة مجرمين قاتلين الاطفال
Great information. We Iraqis always thought that there was never a defence of Baghdad but it seems there was. Quality of the defence was poor of course. Anyway, it's all history now.
The fact that China is studying these videos and using them to train their forces in preparation for the invasion of Taiwan is what blows my mind
May Allah have mercy on Saddam's soul. You guys did huge mistake letting this happens. Hope you doing fine though تحياتي من ام الدنيا
How are things in Baghdad now? Better or worse? There is very little news from Iraq these days, except for when ISIS blow up women and kids in a market or something.
@@PersonalityMalfunction I hear it’s very worse now there’s no order
Quality wasn't necessarily poor but was severely undergunned for their opponent. Their was also little will left to fight for Saddam, those with intel certainly knew what the result of any defense would be on a city. At least that was my understanding.
I'm from iraq and i was kid when us forces defeated Saddam regime I can say us army dis great job by liberating iraq from dictatorship but us politics waste that effort by giving it to the wrong guys
It's crazy, I was talking with some of my other veteran friends who fought in Iraq. There are now adults in your country who only ever experienced war since childhood whereas I only experienced war for 18 months. War is hell and awful. The future is ours though. We should strive for peace and prosperity!
المشكله هو السيستاني الذي اراد الانتخابات قبل ان يمسك التكنوقراط مؤسسات الدولة العراقيه لجعل الامور تتجه ال علمنه الدوله بشكل صحيح
Hhhh, Really are you iraqi? Tell me only one country that USA have built in it's history? USA stands for destructing and occupying empire ,no matter how the consequences are if they're winning they'll do anything to win. USA wanted to disintegrate iraq at first to promise for Israel that it's safe from Iraq, but saddam became a problem to USA and Israel's ambition that's why they preferred to destroy iraq . What about the WMD ? Did USA haven't it? Because they wanted to save Israel from any danger So they would invade to any strong nation in the region to promise for Israel to exist ,and put that information into your note book.
Excellent documentary. Factual, not repetitive and containing depth of subject without getting lost in too much detail. I wish there were more documentaries of this caliber.
It was shit and boring
what a horrible stupid idea this war was just like vietnam really shouldnt have happened very much a pointless war just like vietnam which destroyed so many young americans and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians for nothing
Yes I would have preferred less jaw more paw though..!!
you're evil
Check out Battlefield Vietnam documentary series. There isn't one for the gulf wars as of yet, but they have Vietnam and a bunch of ww2 documentaries, if ya liked this one, you'll probably really enjoy these ones as well, they're really well done.
Thanks for the history lesson!
Thanks for posting this. I was at objective peach. We built the ribbon bridge over the Euphrates river.
Thank you for your service
Thanks so much for your service. Honestly great job.
🖤🖤🖤
How’d it feel
@@davidcutz1526 you’re welcome mate
As a veteran from that initial invat... I mean liberation I can tell you that the bridge on Objective Peach AKA Karbala Gap was indeed well guarded. As we were crossing the bridge, my vehicle got hit by an RPG. Also, I remembered on the gap, we were expecting a chemical attack. Also, intelligence had told us that the Iraqis were planning on blowing the dam so the we were wash away into the river as we were crossing. I was a young 20 year old Dog Face PFC soldier
Rock of the Marne!
@@medroc9639top of the rock
I was a 20 year old as well 2/69 armor
And the gap was something else interesting times
Excellent video.. professionally done and and amazing detail of Baghdad opp.
This is done really well. Thank you for honoring my/our service. - OIF Veteran/CIB
How do you feel when you know you are part of Crime of killing million Iraqi?
thank you for your service
What were you servicing?... 😆 🤣 😂
@@simbathomu6496 your mom 😮
@@brandofoster6195 then you failed dismally.. loserssss..
As a member of 3ID for some reason we are still using football teams as names for an objective. Almost 20 years later
Tired of playing army lets go get pass around pattie and turn over tina and play DR
I think we took over for 3ID in Baghdad. I was 1AD. I was in 4-27 FA. Needs of the Army had us as mobile infantry for the first year, then I went to Mahmoudiyah to shoot counter fire. M109A6 that’s my ride. Red leg 4 life.
If only there were more documentaries of this quality.
Great series. Very informative.
*_Awesome video... Thank You!_*
240B gunner in Bco 3/15 INf 2nd BCT. I remember leaving the bombed BDE CP for Curly. What a crazy fight. The syrians were on drugs that made them zombie like, not reacting to being shot. Many images I wish to forget that day. I will always remember the heroes who gave their lives. SFC Marshal and SSG Stever were not mentioned even though they gave his life on HWY 8 escorting the resupply.
The drug they were most likely on is pure concentrated adrenaline.. Gives me chills when I hear stories of blown up corpses still screaming hopped up that shit...
I was in A Co, 3-15. Wild times
@@BLove-cv9mo Yes. Saddam and his ruthless military where very innocent. Nothing but angels. Right?
@@BLove-cv9mo I kind of agree. But mid East a And parts of africa are strategic. Some mad guys will take over sue canal maybe .
@@michaelheery6303 Mid East and some parts of Africa are strategic! How about you stay home in your country and leave them alone as you have never done any good there
I was there, and I want to take issue with this documentary on a minor point: At Karbala Gap, 3rd BDE did not turn North “as planned” but rather because enemy fire from the electrical-complex near the Dam. We could not suppress the fire. A big issue was we used up the indirect at Hilla/Babylon the day before. For example, I was 11C Mortar Gunner; we fired 2,000 rounds of 120mm HE in two weeks, but we fired 1,000 in one day, March 30th. So the next day at Karbala, we fired what was left, and it was not enough. At that time command bypassed North. Resupply no longer came from BDE at that point, it was all used up; we had to wait for Division stock.
By my maths that's over 150 rounds of 120 mike mike now I'm no soldier but I do know enough to say that its a big fucking round that what, football pitch kill zone? Yet you still couldn't suppress? Why not call in a2,00lb Jdams and be done with?
@@gangstar8652 the electric compound was to be preserved unless absolutely necessary.
@@garthstewart6099 But yet you pounded it with 120 mm mortars? Typical yank response right here.
@@gangstar8652 the structure was able to withstand mortars just fine, but an air strike was deemed imprudent. Why can’t you Brits understand plain English????
Garth Stewart I see, that's hilarious. An air strike was deemed imprudent!!!!!!! Yet you rained by your own admission 3,000 120 MM mortars into the position. Us Brits can read just fine, we invented the language fun fact.
Great graphics and insight
This was a great explanation of what transpired. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
I was there with the 1/39th FA. LTC Batson was CPT Batson and my battery commander at the time. Great guy. Hard to believe that it was almost 20 years ago now.
I was then 8 years old in the city of Nasiriyah, when the American army advanced. The Iraqi soldiers were stationed in front of our village. At the beginning, there was an exchange of artillery fire. The American shells were falling in our village. I remember that scary day of the war. In order to hide from the missiles, in the morning the fighting intensified, and we had to flee our village after some houses were destroyed and some civilians were killed.The sounds of the planes were very scary, they were dropping their missiles everywhere, the confrontation was not equal in terms of equipment and numbers.
Your government was going to be the next Germany if they weren’t stopped
I was 7 on the other side of the world when this was going down how’s life for you now?
Thank you to all who have served for this great nation. Also thank you to all others who have served their country with honor and dignity. Bless up for y'all
Served your great nation for what??Invading a country and taking over their OIL FIELDS! WTF!!
Fuking fools, for allowing bush to play his game
If you don't get that the fools that killed and died in Iraq served nobody but Israel, you are even more stupid than they are.
What honour? Invading an ill equipped nation makes you a hero? I guess by your stupid logic a criminal robbing a grandma of her life savings is also honourable.
They are terrorist . Bcs they kill and rape million of civilians and theft there resources .
Superbly done, could not stop watching. Very interesting
RIP staff sergeant Booker🙏🙏🙏
Failure in weapons maintenance learned the hard way.
Wow for that time i was at there , Thanks for all US soldier was participate in operation Iraq freedom OIF in 2003
What u've got now?
@@yacqubsaid6362/ Remove Dictatorial
Love the infographics! outstanding!
Very well done. Very impressive.
Great video. The campaign to stabilize Iraq was the quagmire. The campaign to capture Iraq and Baghdad was textbook.
Joe Biden is racist
@@Coolidge2329 Would you prefer to be Jo Biden son, or Trump son ?
Text book of raping and killing?, fuck yeah I agree
So true
History will not speak good words about america . Mr. Bush
Would love to see a similar video about the Army SOF role in the fight for Baghdad and the lead up. Any chance?
Naaa.
I talked to some SF guy's who claimed to have been on station for over 3weeks, laying outside of the cities doing recon. Said it sucked....from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸🤠
I've heard rumours of a Tier 1 Team HAHO'ing onto the main Iraqi mobile phone HQ in the centre of Baghdad in the days before the invasion. Apparently the installed bypass devices, giving the coalition unlimited access to all mobile phone traffic and GPS data. This is supposed to have been done covertly and the Iraqis remained unaware of the entire communications system being monitored in real time by ISA. Not sure if this is true, but would love to find out.
America and its allies suffered a heavy loss militarily in Iraq. This is a fact, but the lying media works for America’s benefit with deceptive Hollywood films.
Informative. Useful. Calming. Inspiring. Life-changing. Enjoyable. Heart-warming. Other.
Thank you 1st BCT!
i hung out with the 3rd i.d. in germany in schwienfurt germany! 80's the 11th cav got ur back ! in 2021!!!
Interesting fact. The fall of Baghdad was the fastest defeat of a defended large multi million resident city in history. When you think of all the bloody and prolonged battles that took weeks and even months, the battle of Baghdad was an incredible achievement. Just remember the battles of Stalingrad, Berlin, Warsaw, Manila, etc... Paris is a different story since it was proclaimed the open city and was not defended..
What about New York when the planes flew into the twin towers? I’d say that was a pretty big L for NY
@@hivaladeen4892 but not a total surrender. That's what's being discussed.
@@hivaladeen4892 I didn't know it was a battle for New York City...😳 And I damn sure don't remember no Iraqis setting up camp...🤔
@@hivaladeen4892 that was an unprovoked suicide terror attack targeting thousands of innocent civilians, who were just starting their work day trying to live their lives, not a battle between two militaries which seems to be the part that went completely over your head lol. It was nationally televised when Bush warned Suddam that he had two days to vacate the office, and leave Iraq or the US would invade to dispose of his genocidal regime. Civilians were given 3 days to leave Baghdad before the first air strikes. Then US armed forces went in there and dismantled the "4th largest army" and made them look like a joke. Let this video be knowledge to you for what would happen to Iran.
@@zombieepx1933 Most Iraqi regiments threw down their weapons, there wasn't that much of a fight. And yes, the invasion of Iraq was swift. But followed by one of the biggest foreign policy fuck ups since WWII, by the worst American president since WWII. And for what reason? To rid Iraq of Saddam Hussein? If you think the Bush administration was that concerned with human rights in Iraq, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
*Thanks for letting us know!!!*
Thanks this Lesson!!!
Rip Robert Bob Consiglio MM ex 42 RMC British SAS B Squadron died Iraq 27/1/1991 on call sign Bravo Two Zero. Mum misses you mate.
john ME109 Thankyou my friend. Respect to too NZsas and SASAus both excellent units, very very similar to British sas. Thanks fella.
Bob should never have died had he not taken part in the invasion to steal the Iraqi oil. And millions of Iraqis would be alive had that invasion not taken place
BLove1880 Bob died doing what he did best, soldiering and if you knew the guy and told him beforehand it was going to get hairy Bob would of still gone anyway. His mission was to locate, detect and possibly destroy mobile scud missile launchers, nothing to do with oil, not for him anyway. I totally agree about the invasion of Iraq, it was a bad idea, same as Afghanistan of course it was. My problem with it apart from the futility of war is the fact that now there is a 100% more chance of a terrorist attack laid at ISIL's door happening than ever before Saddam was toppled. A waste all round
Sorry for your loss
@@byronharano2391 What do you say to over a million dead Iraqis?
my favorite story was about how the american armor rolled in to the bagdad airport at night, and found no one. everyone bedded down for the night. at first light they woke-up to discover a iraq armored force was on the other end of the runway, and the iraqs did not detect them roll in either. a quick battle ensued to sort out the parking situation. LOL Not sure what documentary I seen that story told.
Dead set?
I was there. 3/69AR Scout Platoon 1st BCT. I can tell you first hand that we woke up in a hurry.
@@recoil14u did you wipe them out? How many casualties were on your side in that battle and was there a lot of Iraqi resistance?
two battles happened in the airport at first one people witnessed fedyeens holding american heads while moving i buses because they ere told if someone bring a head of us soldier they will recieve money
Really good job people!😌 TY!
Thank you for your passion and service. For freedom and peace, they are willing to sacrifice themselves definitely. They deserve to be paid a tribute.
😂😂😂Frankly, you are laughing, you criminals. He said, “Aid.” He said, “Any assistance that talks about killing, destroying a solution in Iraq because of you.
They were the aggressor nation invading a sovereign nation illegally without UN mandate. The entire justification for the war was a lie cooked up by Chenney and Rumsfield who thought Afghanistan "had no good targets". They destroyed a nation and left it in ruins and fled leaving it far far worse than they found it. Every Iraqi today will tell you Saddam was far better than ISIS or any of the Govs that have followed.
Fucking love these! Keep em coming! I've watched the Stalingrad series at least 5 times.
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Im just about to watch that Stalingrad one!!
@@JarodShapiro it's really good!
Weirdo. Watch DONNYGATE
I spent five years in third infantry division. I was 4th brigade 3-15 infantry, Charlie company.
Thank you for your service. God bless
Excellent video & good reference
Looks great!
Outstanding!
After the Americans entered and occupied Iraq, the real war had begun. The Iraqi resistance inflicted the American army with the heaviest losses. I saw with my own eyes how the body parts of American soldiers flew from the Humvee while targeting it , Unfortunately, America destroyed my country, Iraq 🇮🇶❤️
Your country destroyed itself and prevented the U.S. from leaving because of the rise of terrorist like Isis
Had a class where Citino gave an excellent lecture on this campaign
Very very good documentary, excellent in narration and script as well as details around describing the particular parts of missions and systems as in bridgehead. Enjoyed it a lot, shame It didn't have any action with the Brits nvolved and the indestructible Challenger 2, no losses, nit a single one accept one from a blue on blue incident by another Challenger 2.
You are awesome guys, I love your content!
I was seven years old at the time. I remember well those bloody days in Baghdad. My family and I lived through the days of war together, from bombing and fighting. Damn those who started the war and lied under the false pretext of lethal weapons.
No kidding, why on earth we attacked Iraq, I still don't understand. Total madness.
@@ATXAdventureit wasn’t total madness…all bush had to say was “Saddam Hussein is currently doing what Saddam Hussein does” and they have my vote 100%-they don’t even need to mention nuclear weapons. This is the guy that committed mass genocide against the Kurds gassing them in their thousands and who invaded Kuwait starting the gulf war. Should we have just left him in Kuwait to wander around and take over his neighbour? Would you like to go to his house for tea and biscuits?
@tl9223 Yeah, 100% leave him alone in the desert and don't send over 125,000 us service men and women to their deaths (combat + suicides) to keep one sand guy from being mean to another sand guy. Who cares.
@@ATXAdventure your figures are well off btw…it’s less than 5,000 losses. Still 1 is a tragedy, but that had to happen for US security, western security, regional security and global security. Of course the power vacuum that was created and the implications of which can be debated, but intervention was 100% required.
@tl9223 My figures are conservative. Infact, I didn't even state combat losses. Those 125k is the number of servicemen and women who have killed themselves since going to war in Iraq. War was not justified, it was a waste of life and capital to enrich corrupt politicians.
great video, underrated chanel
Man this is truly gem, why this doc make me feel so good.
Love these brave man and women in uniform..they advanced so quickly toward Baghdad..I felt bad for those soldiers tricked and killed in Nasiriyah .. and the Apache helicopter shot down in Karbala ..couldn’t wait to feel the freedom and see The brutal of Saddam Hussein regime leaving for ever ..god bless America 🇺🇸
Stop praising terrorist . They are killer . They kill a million civilian and destroyed there beautiful country . They spread false propaganda against Saddam for invading.
Saddam will be a student for the US when it comes to brutality, Do you have any other thing to say? bcs you have no morals to tell the people what's right while you're the biggest evil in the last century
17 Years on and the coalition are still trying to stabilise Iraq❓❓A conflict reminiscent for peace in Afghanistan. Once again a brilliant piece of work, graphics and intelligence. Being able to have insight to the command process was riveting.
They are not trying to stabilize anything, what you see now is all designed to be like that and will always be.
No the get out of town tour is over. The Iraqi government asked the US and Allies to leave years ago, but then asked for help when ISIS rose to power. Just a great example of how punitive expeditions are correct. Go in, break everything, kill specific leadership, destroy specific institutions, and leave spending zero dollars to fix anything. Nation building after regime change is the total loss proposition. Allied Troops should have exited Iraq by Christmas 2003 and left a big FU only.
@@Papi1960R At the end of the day. Afghanistan was all about the poppy fields and heroin. Iraq has oil.
@@itsnotalwaysblackandwhite8624 Iraq has oil. And their Government agreed to sell none of it to the United States. The Iraqi National Export board has exclusive contracts with China, India, Spain and South Africa. But then again its one of those things I'll just say I guess you had to be there. I deployed to Afghanistan 7 times all over a year. I deployed to Iraq for the Invasion in 03, the Surge in 07, and to fight ISIS in 2016/17.
@@Papi1960R But why? Why do that to a people thosands of miles away who also need stability, peace, safety, happiness
very informative presentation.
Wonderful jargon!
I was with B co 1-64AR. We were attached to TF 1-15IN. It's sad to not even hear a mention of them. I was also a crewmember on the tank that took 2 RPG rounds on the second Thunder Run. Our tank commander was also shot with small arms fire. Not sure why they left so much out.
They left so much out due to how the "thunder runs" went, they weren't as effective as command wanted, if any mech unit does that again, a lot more wouldn't make it back to base.
We led the thunder run. 2nd BCT 3rd ID.
I was in A 1-15IN
This is a good documentary
Steadfast & Loyal Men Of Battle 👊😎
Good information thank u
R.I.P. Brother.S.SGT BOOKER-----
I love this sort of presentation...reminds me of the Battlefield documentary series.
Thanks for watching!
شكرا شكرا شكرا جزيلا اخي القاىد
Damn good video.
So glad the algorithm suggested this channel. Thanks US.
I showed up for OIF-II, the immediate follow-on mission. After hearing from the initial forces about their optempo, the living, sleeping, and eating conditions, it was otherworldly to show up at BIAP and be surrounded by air-conditioned trailers and plumbing and hot chow. War and our expectations of it have changed a lot. I wonder how many of the lessons learned here will be re-applicable in traditionally symmetrical peer-nation conflicts.
Probability for reapplication is low. You don't get stronger or smarter by fighting weaker opponents.
We shouldn’t get too complacent
Don't be cry our time come we slam people making now United states of Islam Countries like Iraq,Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkish, Iran,Algeria, Nigeria, Somalia, Indonesia,Azerbaijan, China & Russia will be our side.
Was a Seabee we stole those air conditioners from the air force and set them up for 3/5😂
I was in OIF, and I tell people that troops in the push probably had more in common with WWII units, operationally/strategic, than they had in common with most units that followed. We never stayed anywhere twice, always moving, all tempo. Now, I’m not saying that it was like WWII or that it was as difficult. I’m not comparing it to that at all. I’m just saying that phase I was an operationally different experience that didn’t see much similarities in the 20 years following. Much respect to all forces throughout both theaters in both campaigns. They each had their own challenges and constraints. Respect.
I loved it, all of it.
For more detailed views from boots on the ground, I highly recommend the book, Thunder Run
37:35 When you order a mine obstacle from Wish.
Bruh
Now that’s funny as hell😂😂😂
had a buddy in a med unit , they had 4 enemy tank crews surrender to them .
OIF 1 right here. Baghdad and Mahmoudiyah 03-04
شكرآ لكم من كل العراق
Wheres my OIF 3 brothers!!! 3rd ID!!
3rd ID OIF 1, 3, and 5. I was at FOB Hope in Sadr in 2005
Probably at Fort Stewart, Georgia
@@mikeoneil5770 Yep
Oif 2 04-05 1st cav
@@BleedCubbieBlue77 I was also there in 2004. I worked as a medic in the ER at the big hospital in Baghdad (31st CSH). That place was unreal. So much carnage.
Staff Sergeant Booker, a real hero a real soldier, a brave man and a great American and all round decent human being. All to whom fought in the gulf are heroes and will always be so, and we need to remember those lost to battle, through acts of heroism, for gallantry, for the brother next to him, whether American or British, and those who give up their lives willingly for others, never thinking about what might happen, just jumping out and engaging the Enemy, Absolute true patriots. RiP SS Booker and all those fallen in this as well as all other wars across the world, those fighting for peace and stability, those fighting for the freedom to choose your own destiny, the challenge of fighting on through the most dire situations, pushing on to victory, Because it Belongs to them ALL. 🏴-🇬🇧-🇺🇲
نحن مسلمون ولكنكم قتلتم الأبرياء من أجل بترول العراق
@@rameziramezi4438 you talking like saddam didn’t invade Kuwait. Acting like saddam was innocent in all this. Gas gas gas his own people don’t come on here acting like he was a saint. Stone Age mentality with being stupid. What a combination of being clueless.
Not hero . They are terrorist . They destroyed a beautiful country and kill and rape million of civilians . And theft all resources . They destroyed peace and destabilize a great country. Stop praising terrorist .
Somehow this voice and those mission layout pages remind me of playing Mechwarrior 3.
The Marines perspective would be great to see in this format. Also if anyone can recommend something similar to this with the Marines perspective I would appreciate it.
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Isn't Generation Kill , the HBO miniseries, a good representation of this? Try that out. It's not all action, but it apparently covers things really well.
I just watched released footage from marines. Its a documentary on cinema. Thats what brought me here. Combat obscura. Filmed by 18 y.o miles lagoze, videograpger for recruiting purposes, but he didn't stop recording. He released the footage the corps doesn't want you to see.
Marines perspective : The army covered and saved our asses many times. I.E. Fallujah. End perspective
I was there with my brothers! Semper Fi
Semper Fi
Derp
Thank you for your service! 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for killing civilians🖕🖕
Yeah semper fi to kill innocent people
Thank you very much 😑🙏🏼
Speed and Power!
About halfway through this video you will start wondering where the Marine Division was and what it was doing? The reason they aren't mentioned is that the Marines were nowhere near as far North as the first graphic in this video shows. The Marines were still over 100Km South of Baghdad. Timid leadership, Marines poorly trained for large scale operations, a total inability to maneuver off of the main roads, and a poor logistics system meant the Marines were stopped over and over by light resistance. The Marines never fought the Iraqi Army in Battalion strength yet ended up getting to Baghdad 10 day late. The 2003 Invasion of Iraq was a huge wakeup call to how far behind US Army the Marines had fallen. It was a huge event in DoD and the US Congress which turned Marine training upside-down at every level from the newest recruit to senior leadership. Marine leadership placed most of their failings, not on the warfighting elements but on their own logistical support. Today Marine Logistics is almost non-existent, with most responsibility for Marine Logistics turned over to the Army Reserve.
Maybe thats why Berger is turning them into ship jumpers again
You are out of your mind!! The only thing that the Marines weren't prepared for was the Biblical sandstorm that unexpectedly swept the area south of baghdad. The Army on the other hand was ill trained and fought among themselves more than they fought with the enemy
@@justingamlich901 they fought amongst themselves? I wasn't aware that Tank units in the Army were shooting at each other over the spoils. What you said is the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life.
@@bayknight20 As General Montgomery once said "Amateurs' study tactics, professionals study logistics" The Marines are and have been for a while Amateurs. Now, its not their fault. Sustained land operations was never their purpose and its not their job. Expeditionary Naval Warfare is what they are designed and trained for. It is due to politics that the Pentagon used the Marines as "2 extra" combat divisions for the Army. Congress, despite their foreign polic, limits the active US Army to 10 divisions. But because of US foreign policy, the Army will never have enough active divisions to met its commitments. So where can you get more active divisions while still technically staying in Congress' mandate? The Marines, which maintain 2 divisions (the 3rd Marine division is more of a headquarters in the Pacific now) I think Gen Berger is trying to ending this dishonest tap dancing and make congress reevaluate their foreign policy or think hard about authorizing the Army to activate more divisions, while Marines can focus on their jobs.
@@madkabal i don't know about the armies tank units , but I know for a fact that the Army lacked discipline and were continually seen fighting amongst themselves like a bunch of kids on a school playground...... chest puffed out seeing who could bump the others chest the hardest and then crying about not wanting to be there. And after baghdad was captured, the occupying forces for the Army reported they got lost on thier way to baghdad. The unit turned around and went back to Kuwait, where later the truth came out and thier leadership admitted that they started meeting resistance via small arms fire. They asummed the Marines cleared the path to baghdad of all resistance. SMH!!! As far as you attacking me claiming I'm stupid (its obvious I know way more on the subject than you) your insults hold no weight coming from a guy who claimes the US was not prepared for the invasion which only took 21 days to take out the 4th largest military in the world. But thats fine little guy. Believe what you wanna believe, your going to anyway!!!!
RIP Sgt. 1st class Smith. Did what had to be done to protect his brothers. Respect from the UK.
Now he will meet his creator and answer for his actions. Killing innocents is not honourable
@@2loco He was fighting Fedayeen, not babies
Very informative thanks from English civvie
Right s turn (V)sideways first platoon Second v scribble north 90 right F front pivot or diagonal north west
Americans losing couple tanks and people : "we've had some big losses". iraqis losing over 2 thousand of people and hundreds of tanks : "we are winning, americans had been repulsed"
I don't know if you've been paying attention, but we ran with our tail between our legs from Iraq and Afghanistan.
So selfish of you, propagating just the reverse of it between Ukraine and Russia! Iraq was no threat to The US, and yet your unjustified invasion that devastated a whole country, and whole region for no reason! Just sheer arrogance, what a pity!!!
@@jasonm949 Nope. Violence was down 90% when we left. It was just too expensive to stay.
@jasonm949 command was passed over in Iraq at the end ot Operation New Dawn and in Afghanistan, there was a hard date to get out of the country that was misplanned in a bad deal a year before. There was no "running".
That black guy that laid down fire on top of his tank with his m4 after the machine gun malfunctioned. That is the most brave amazing thing ive ever heard he was a tank commander and still pointed out targets for his tank to engage while on top could u imagine the noise and violence man yes they r talking about him now Booker!!!!!! I'd give anything to meet his family I was writing the comment while watching if it's not obvious enough. Man he was brave. Amazing breathtaking bravery. I mean id be so buttoned up inside that thing I would just not even stick my head out. Id love to imagine myself brave and bold but u never know unless u r n that situation. It's a crime he doesn't have the MOH.
I do that all the time while watching and up editing my comment, I never learn.
Those of us who knew Booker knew him to be a very humble man, one of the best NCOs his troops could have asked for. I know that in his heart and in his head that day he was just doing what the situation called for at the time. We miss Booker, but his memory lives on in those of us who served with him.
Here before 1mil subs
Thank you.
You're welcome!
I was there during OIF in Balad.
@POTUS TRUMP 2020 .MAGA-NRA just sayin.
As we say in the 7th Cavalry "it's almost Christmas, have the Marines made it to Baghdad yet?"!
lol thats hilarious
I was a pretty strong anti-US person until Trump.
@@brunnersamuel4615 I was a pretty strong pro-U.S. person until trump
@@Razmattaz_ Seekhelp.
@@working2bselfsufficient724 lol, he prob went to community college and got woke
Very interesting to watch, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE LADS AND LASSES, U DID US ALL PROUD, 👍👌 REST IN PEACE TO ALL WHO NEVER MADE IT HOME ,😇 😷😷🌍✌💖😷😷
Can you believe this is now old enough for kids to learn this in school
I was 20 years old and it’s the first time I had seen what really happens when a tank takes a direct hit and saw this spinning turret 200 feet in the air 😮
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Larry, Curly, Moe?! 'love it!!! (minute 35).
Nice
Incredible comments, thank y'all for the personal witness.
The fact that China is studying these videos and using them to train their forces in preparation for the invasion of Taiwan is what blows my mind
@@yourbossdonpely How many times did you write this? This battle has nothing in common with a seaborne amphibious operation
Interesting interpretation of a laying a mine field. Would love to know the reasoning behind that decision. Makes you wonder how Hussein stayed in power so long.
You'd have to spend some time with the people. Very different culture. Submissive.
Epitome of desperation. Must've thought that dirt would make them obscured and difficult to shoot/destroy
This came from a UK WW2 Homguard defensive training manual with the intention of stopping a moving column of tanks or vehicle to engage them with mortars and other weapons like the fougasse (a 45 gallon drum of fuel oil , petrol and dissolved rubber tyres ignited by and explosive charge that sprayed the column with burning molten rubber . The only difference is that metal plates turned upside and covered with dirt would do the job rather than going to the expense of actually using mines . This technique would be used in conjunction with actual mines should a column attempt to by pass the road if possible. These mines would be disguised as horse shit , rocks and other innocuous looking items that would burst tyres etc. , stopping vehicles and bringing them under attack once more .
This is awsome ... amazing detail. USA is such a heavy hitter.
yes as long as it is a weak enemy, but still cant defead rice farmers :(
I love the usage of arma.
Doctrine States creation of dilemma through the implementation of the electromagnetic spectrum disruption damn
I'm still pretty salty about the whole Turkey thing. 1st BCT 4ID were just arriving in Kuwait on 01 APR 2003. We spent the next week or so waiting for our vehicles before we finally started rolling up highway 1 on/around the 14th. 3/66 AR mortars
Turkey acted shameful back then. They still do today even now, they play us for their own benefit but won't lift a figure to help us out when asked, in fact they often attack our allies (kurds/greece). But worst of all they back stupid regional wars (like karabak region), that through layered webs of various alliances almost ignited a huge global war (like ww1) between : western europe(NATO) vs russia vs US vs china vs taiwan/japan/s. Korea vs north korea vs india vs pakistan and iran vs suadi arabia. And all this for no good reason, I mean no moral justifications just cynical raw political power plays.
with "friends" like Turkey, who needs enemies?