AL ASAD, Iraq – U.S. Marines and Iraqi Soldiers operating in western al Anbar province, Iraq, expedited the medical evacuation of two Iraqi boys who sustained wounds from an improvised explosive device June 9.
The Marines were manning a traffic control point on a road approximately two kilometers east of Ar Rutbah when the boys’ uncle approached the Marines and requested medical assistance for his wounded nephews.
The uncle stated the two boys were watching sheep approximately seven kilometers north of Ar Rutbah when the IED exploded, wounding the children.
Iraqi soldiers and U.S. Marines rendered first aid and coordinated the medical evacuation of the two boys to a nearby U.S. military medical facility. They were assessed by U.S. military medical personnel to be in stable condition and transported to a U.S. military hospital in Balad for further treatment.
The Marines who operate in Ar Rutbah are part of the Twenty-nine Palms, California-based 3d Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 7. The unit arrived in Iraq in March.
What US Soldiers not killing and maiming poor innocent Iraqi civilians?? Can't be, the news tells me they are all murders and killers of women and children. This story should read how they shot the boys in the head because thats what we do. This story is more true to the nature of our soldiers than that other crap your fed via the MSM.
