mustamato
04-24-2004, 10:49 PM
Another translation by me, again sorry for bad English. If I had been born
in USA I would probably have joined these guys.
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=148&a=257828&previousRenderType=2
_____________________________________
DAYTON. Huber Heights, Ohio. Sergeant Gregory Brown leads the
marsch for the four soon to be Marines. Together they sing: "I can go to
Iraq, all the way to Iraq, the Iraqis they ask what: how did you get here
in only one day?"
http://www.dn.se/content/1/c6/25/78/28/rekrytKLICK298.jpg
Sergeant Gregory Brown
The afternoon sun soon gets the sweat to breakh through. The teen
recruits runs tactfully after their commander and do the specially
demanding Marine pull-ups that he orders. They can always
****ounce "semper fi" - always loyal, on latin - The Marines motto since
1853.
- You are unusually motivated guys, Brown says afterwards when they
gather at his poster-filled office. But then, you come from military
families. They get stickers with the Marines eagle and gets to see shaky
videotapes of aerial bombardment of Baghdad, to the tones to
AC/DCīs "Hell Bells" - a song about how "Satan" will get struck by
a "hurricane-like attack" that will kill all in its way.
AFTERWARDS THEY SPEAK about the precision of the Hellfire
missiles, and how cool the Cobra helicopters look. Itīs 11500 kilometers
from the recruitment offie in the Dayton suburb Huber Heights in Ohio to
Falluja. But already in a year they can be there.
Twentyfive thousand Marines is already today in Iraq. Sergeant Browns
colleagues try to put down the violence in the so called Sunni triangle
west of Baghdad. The soldiers in the L company, a part of Browns third
batallion, is dug down in their foxholes, re-inforced with sandbags. The
companies were flewn in as re-inforcments to those Marines that
surrounded the city after the desecration of four American security
guards the 31h Mars.
ABOUT ONE HUNDRED American soldiers and more than 1 100
Iraqis - mainly civilians according to hospital sources - have been found
dead in Iraq during April. In American media the situation is described as
more dangerous than he firefights during the invasion. The US soldiers is
not longer waited to fight a conventional war, but is now facing "stability-
and support operations", SASO.
According to information given to the news agency AP, more than 1500
civilian foreign contractors have fled from Iraq, in fear of being
kidnapped or killed. This has further pressured the American forces that
gets about 40% of their supply of water-, food- and fuel deliveries from
private companies. According to the US military the readiness is good.
Several of the Marines that is now in Iraq hs been specially trained at the
March base in southern California in how to withhold stability that is
demanded to rebuild Iraq. They have further studied Arabic and have
received "cultural education".
AMONG THE YOUNG recruits that sings sergeant Browns rhyme
about how they are ready to when ever they are called, to travel to Iraq,
the conviction however varies if the training the get is enough to prepare
for what waits them.
http://www.dn.se/content/1/c6/25/78/28/rekrytIN463.jpg
Sergeant Brown shows a sword to recruits. Each year the local recruitment
office has a goal of recruiting 100 new soldiers
20 year old Michael Murphy enlisted in January this year, and is expecting
to serve the following six years. The military is already contributing to
his awaiting college studies.
- My dad really did not like this idea. Iīm the only son in my family. But
my mom thinks itīs up to me. If I want to do this she supports me.
Has the accelerating violence changed your attitude?
- Yeah, it worries you. But if one doesnīt worry, then there is something
wrong with you. How I will be able to cope with a real situation is what I
think of the most. I canīt answer on how I would react of I got in to a
situation where I had to shoot some one to death. The basic training on
Parris Island doesnīt feel as threatening. I have been competing in
running and skiing - Iīm physically capable of doing this, the question if I
can do it mentally.
Why do you worry about that?
- I have the right instinct sometimes, but not always. Itīs easy to pretend
to be tough and cocky now, but every one of us stiff scared about what
will happen once we are there. But if one doesnīt pretend to be tought,
then you can pull this of - itīs the same thing with skiing: If you compete
and doubt on that you are the best, then you will never win. But if you
say to yourself that you are number one, and superior to all the others,
then you might be able to pull it of.
Did you win any races?
- I won one race in high school, and then I had that mindset.
David Foor, that has just had his 18th birthday, assures that he doesnīt
think much about the dangers. His father served in the Air Force in seven
years, he himself dreams about being a sniper. He has signed for fours
years, to start with.
- I decided to become a soldier already when I was twelve. Mom and dad
says that it will do me good. But my mom was a little afraid after what
happened 11th September, but she still thinks that advantages outweighs
the disadvantages. To not be able meet my family will be the tough part,
but what must be done, itīs done.
Has the images from Falluja the latest weeks made you doubt?
- No, I want to Iraq and serve my country. Iīm not afraid and with Gods
will I will return home. If I only get the right training I know I will
survive. I work as a volunteer cadet on the police station here, and the
bossīs son is a airplane mechanic in Iraq, so I have heard a little of how
itīs down there.
what does your comrades in your class say?
- That Iīm crazy. When they hear that I have signed for the Marines -
that always go out first in all battles and leaves last - they say that Iīm a
wacko. But most people I hang out with supports the war. And those that
oppose it wouldnīt if they had experienced 11th September 2001.
The recruiters time and time again come back to the attack of World
Trade Center and Pentagon. As the president and many other Americans
they see a connection between 11th September and Iraq: Itīs a part of
the war on terror that the Marines are fighting now in Falluja and in
Baghdad, a war that started with the collapsing twin towers and that the
recruiters are willing to apply to those parts of the world where American
interests are threatened.
http://www.dn.se/content/1/c6/25/78/28/rekrytering425.jpg
Michael Murphy and his comrades have one clear goal, they are going to
Iraq and will fight for democracy and American values
THE PERSON APPLYING for service in the Marines must be atleast
17, but not older than 28. The Marines recruites amongst other on the
Internet and at school visits. Those applying will fill a so called prospects
card, where the person must say if they have used drugs, or have such a
background that might not be suitable for a person serving in the military.
The selection process takes between three months and a year, dependent
on the persons age, physical condition and "motivation". The recruits
living east of the Mississippi river are sent to Parris Island in South
Carolina for the basic training, "boot camp", those west ofthe river are
trained in San Diego in California. About 5% of those applying for service
are women, they never serve in fighting units, and usually have
administrative roles.
A Marine makes about 8500 (Swedish currency, about 7 kronor for a
dollar) kronor and 31.000 kronor each month, but then living, food and
health care is free. And those that serve can also get a substantial
economical aid to higher education. After twenty years in the Marines,
they are offered half their pay in pension for life, thirty years service
gives seventy-five percent of the pay.
- ABOUT HALF of those that apply are athletes basically, the other
half wants to get in shape and build up confidence in themself. But the
physical strength is only 40 percent of what is needed, the rest is about
mental strength. What is necessary to be able to cope with the drill
sergeants training in boot camp, we canīt fully prepare the recruits for,
says 2nd Lieutenant Rick St John. As responsible for recruitment in Dallas
with surroundin areas itīs him that finally decided who of those applying
that are accepted. He is born in Ohio, has four children, and has in 18
years served in three Marine batallions and has served in 40 countries,
of them in several African countries, Corea, Georgia, Albania, Kuwait,
Kosovo, and latest in Kut in Iraq.
- We donīt sell a job, but the opportunity to become a Marine. To be able
to feel that pride, that is who all I meet comes back to. We donīt spice
up our establishment. We say to them, that they will the toughest
challenge in their life.
He says that the war in Iraq has not noticeably made the interest of being
a Marine smaller.
- WE GET IN CONFLICTS all the time anyhow, itīs nothing new for
us, it has been like that since 1775. Itīs maybe not fullscale wars, but
only in the latest ten years we have been in nine or ten "hot areas", as
Kosovo. That is something that all Marines can be sent to.
He shows a group photo of his unit. Itīs a sunglazed picture of thirty or so
dusty soldiers in a Iraqi desert camp. Several of his fellow soldiers was
killed during the fightings.
- I havenīt seen such losses at any place. But in a situation like the one
in Iraq people will die. Itīs sad, but such things just happen. Itīs tough
down there and I can understand that the public has their doubts some
times, but my children will get the reward for this. I feel no doubt what
so ever on this point, despite that itīs hard to see in the papers how
Marines are killed now, he says and adds that if it wasnīt for his family,
he would want to be sent back to Kut.
18 YEAR OLD Brian Hurst is sure that his loyalty against the
Marines will be able to compete with Rick St Johnīs when the drilling at
Parris Island will be behind him. He competes in running and skiing and
he has the soldiers life in his genes, he says. His grand dad fought in the
second world war, his father and uncle was with the Marines in Vietnam,
and he can by heart: "Iīm an American, I fight for the forces that
protects my country, and our way of living. Iīm ready to give my life to
defend this".
- Iīm very motivated from home. And besides, itīs a great challenge for
me to prove that I can do this. Some say that Iīm too small for
something like this, but Iīm going to prove them wrong. Dad says that
itīs a good choise for me since there is such a unemployment rate here
in Ohio anyway. But sometimes it makes me nervous anyway, Iīm only
18 and has just finished high school. But thatīs nothing you think about
when you have signed on. I aim at eight years to start with, but maybe I
will stay in twenty years and takes a military pension.
What is the best part with becoming a Marine?
- That you will get self confidence, a believe in yourself. You stop to say
to youself, "I can never do this". You just do it.
in USA I would probably have joined these guys.
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=148&a=257828&previousRenderType=2
_____________________________________
DAYTON. Huber Heights, Ohio. Sergeant Gregory Brown leads the
marsch for the four soon to be Marines. Together they sing: "I can go to
Iraq, all the way to Iraq, the Iraqis they ask what: how did you get here
in only one day?"
http://www.dn.se/content/1/c6/25/78/28/rekrytKLICK298.jpg
Sergeant Gregory Brown
The afternoon sun soon gets the sweat to breakh through. The teen
recruits runs tactfully after their commander and do the specially
demanding Marine pull-ups that he orders. They can always
****ounce "semper fi" - always loyal, on latin - The Marines motto since
1853.
- You are unusually motivated guys, Brown says afterwards when they
gather at his poster-filled office. But then, you come from military
families. They get stickers with the Marines eagle and gets to see shaky
videotapes of aerial bombardment of Baghdad, to the tones to
AC/DCīs "Hell Bells" - a song about how "Satan" will get struck by
a "hurricane-like attack" that will kill all in its way.
AFTERWARDS THEY SPEAK about the precision of the Hellfire
missiles, and how cool the Cobra helicopters look. Itīs 11500 kilometers
from the recruitment offie in the Dayton suburb Huber Heights in Ohio to
Falluja. But already in a year they can be there.
Twentyfive thousand Marines is already today in Iraq. Sergeant Browns
colleagues try to put down the violence in the so called Sunni triangle
west of Baghdad. The soldiers in the L company, a part of Browns third
batallion, is dug down in their foxholes, re-inforced with sandbags. The
companies were flewn in as re-inforcments to those Marines that
surrounded the city after the desecration of four American security
guards the 31h Mars.
ABOUT ONE HUNDRED American soldiers and more than 1 100
Iraqis - mainly civilians according to hospital sources - have been found
dead in Iraq during April. In American media the situation is described as
more dangerous than he firefights during the invasion. The US soldiers is
not longer waited to fight a conventional war, but is now facing "stability-
and support operations", SASO.
According to information given to the news agency AP, more than 1500
civilian foreign contractors have fled from Iraq, in fear of being
kidnapped or killed. This has further pressured the American forces that
gets about 40% of their supply of water-, food- and fuel deliveries from
private companies. According to the US military the readiness is good.
Several of the Marines that is now in Iraq hs been specially trained at the
March base in southern California in how to withhold stability that is
demanded to rebuild Iraq. They have further studied Arabic and have
received "cultural education".
AMONG THE YOUNG recruits that sings sergeant Browns rhyme
about how they are ready to when ever they are called, to travel to Iraq,
the conviction however varies if the training the get is enough to prepare
for what waits them.
http://www.dn.se/content/1/c6/25/78/28/rekrytIN463.jpg
Sergeant Brown shows a sword to recruits. Each year the local recruitment
office has a goal of recruiting 100 new soldiers
20 year old Michael Murphy enlisted in January this year, and is expecting
to serve the following six years. The military is already contributing to
his awaiting college studies.
- My dad really did not like this idea. Iīm the only son in my family. But
my mom thinks itīs up to me. If I want to do this she supports me.
Has the accelerating violence changed your attitude?
- Yeah, it worries you. But if one doesnīt worry, then there is something
wrong with you. How I will be able to cope with a real situation is what I
think of the most. I canīt answer on how I would react of I got in to a
situation where I had to shoot some one to death. The basic training on
Parris Island doesnīt feel as threatening. I have been competing in
running and skiing - Iīm physically capable of doing this, the question if I
can do it mentally.
Why do you worry about that?
- I have the right instinct sometimes, but not always. Itīs easy to pretend
to be tough and cocky now, but every one of us stiff scared about what
will happen once we are there. But if one doesnīt pretend to be tought,
then you can pull this of - itīs the same thing with skiing: If you compete
and doubt on that you are the best, then you will never win. But if you
say to yourself that you are number one, and superior to all the others,
then you might be able to pull it of.
Did you win any races?
- I won one race in high school, and then I had that mindset.
David Foor, that has just had his 18th birthday, assures that he doesnīt
think much about the dangers. His father served in the Air Force in seven
years, he himself dreams about being a sniper. He has signed for fours
years, to start with.
- I decided to become a soldier already when I was twelve. Mom and dad
says that it will do me good. But my mom was a little afraid after what
happened 11th September, but she still thinks that advantages outweighs
the disadvantages. To not be able meet my family will be the tough part,
but what must be done, itīs done.
Has the images from Falluja the latest weeks made you doubt?
- No, I want to Iraq and serve my country. Iīm not afraid and with Gods
will I will return home. If I only get the right training I know I will
survive. I work as a volunteer cadet on the police station here, and the
bossīs son is a airplane mechanic in Iraq, so I have heard a little of how
itīs down there.
what does your comrades in your class say?
- That Iīm crazy. When they hear that I have signed for the Marines -
that always go out first in all battles and leaves last - they say that Iīm a
wacko. But most people I hang out with supports the war. And those that
oppose it wouldnīt if they had experienced 11th September 2001.
The recruiters time and time again come back to the attack of World
Trade Center and Pentagon. As the president and many other Americans
they see a connection between 11th September and Iraq: Itīs a part of
the war on terror that the Marines are fighting now in Falluja and in
Baghdad, a war that started with the collapsing twin towers and that the
recruiters are willing to apply to those parts of the world where American
interests are threatened.
http://www.dn.se/content/1/c6/25/78/28/rekrytering425.jpg
Michael Murphy and his comrades have one clear goal, they are going to
Iraq and will fight for democracy and American values
THE PERSON APPLYING for service in the Marines must be atleast
17, but not older than 28. The Marines recruites amongst other on the
Internet and at school visits. Those applying will fill a so called prospects
card, where the person must say if they have used drugs, or have such a
background that might not be suitable for a person serving in the military.
The selection process takes between three months and a year, dependent
on the persons age, physical condition and "motivation". The recruits
living east of the Mississippi river are sent to Parris Island in South
Carolina for the basic training, "boot camp", those west ofthe river are
trained in San Diego in California. About 5% of those applying for service
are women, they never serve in fighting units, and usually have
administrative roles.
A Marine makes about 8500 (Swedish currency, about 7 kronor for a
dollar) kronor and 31.000 kronor each month, but then living, food and
health care is free. And those that serve can also get a substantial
economical aid to higher education. After twenty years in the Marines,
they are offered half their pay in pension for life, thirty years service
gives seventy-five percent of the pay.
- ABOUT HALF of those that apply are athletes basically, the other
half wants to get in shape and build up confidence in themself. But the
physical strength is only 40 percent of what is needed, the rest is about
mental strength. What is necessary to be able to cope with the drill
sergeants training in boot camp, we canīt fully prepare the recruits for,
says 2nd Lieutenant Rick St John. As responsible for recruitment in Dallas
with surroundin areas itīs him that finally decided who of those applying
that are accepted. He is born in Ohio, has four children, and has in 18
years served in three Marine batallions and has served in 40 countries,
of them in several African countries, Corea, Georgia, Albania, Kuwait,
Kosovo, and latest in Kut in Iraq.
- We donīt sell a job, but the opportunity to become a Marine. To be able
to feel that pride, that is who all I meet comes back to. We donīt spice
up our establishment. We say to them, that they will the toughest
challenge in their life.
He says that the war in Iraq has not noticeably made the interest of being
a Marine smaller.
- WE GET IN CONFLICTS all the time anyhow, itīs nothing new for
us, it has been like that since 1775. Itīs maybe not fullscale wars, but
only in the latest ten years we have been in nine or ten "hot areas", as
Kosovo. That is something that all Marines can be sent to.
He shows a group photo of his unit. Itīs a sunglazed picture of thirty or so
dusty soldiers in a Iraqi desert camp. Several of his fellow soldiers was
killed during the fightings.
- I havenīt seen such losses at any place. But in a situation like the one
in Iraq people will die. Itīs sad, but such things just happen. Itīs tough
down there and I can understand that the public has their doubts some
times, but my children will get the reward for this. I feel no doubt what
so ever on this point, despite that itīs hard to see in the papers how
Marines are killed now, he says and adds that if it wasnīt for his family,
he would want to be sent back to Kut.
18 YEAR OLD Brian Hurst is sure that his loyalty against the
Marines will be able to compete with Rick St Johnīs when the drilling at
Parris Island will be behind him. He competes in running and skiing and
he has the soldiers life in his genes, he says. His grand dad fought in the
second world war, his father and uncle was with the Marines in Vietnam,
and he can by heart: "Iīm an American, I fight for the forces that
protects my country, and our way of living. Iīm ready to give my life to
defend this".
- Iīm very motivated from home. And besides, itīs a great challenge for
me to prove that I can do this. Some say that Iīm too small for
something like this, but Iīm going to prove them wrong. Dad says that
itīs a good choise for me since there is such a unemployment rate here
in Ohio anyway. But sometimes it makes me nervous anyway, Iīm only
18 and has just finished high school. But thatīs nothing you think about
when you have signed on. I aim at eight years to start with, but maybe I
will stay in twenty years and takes a military pension.
What is the best part with becoming a Marine?
- That you will get self confidence, a believe in yourself. You stop to say
to youself, "I can never do this". You just do it.