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Sunday, 30 July 2006
"Finally --- An Honest News Story -- Without The Bias"
Contributed by Bill Faith

Marine sniper metes out swift death
in Iraq's most dangerous neighborhood

RAMADI, Iraq (AP) — He was 5 when he first fired an M-16, his father holding him to brace against the recoil. At 17 he enlisted in the Marine Corps, spurred by the memory of Sept. 11.

Now, 21-year-old Galen Wilson has 20 confirmed kills in four months in Iraq — and another 40 shots that probably killed insurgents. One afternoon the lance corporal downed a man hauling a grenade launcher 5½ football fields away.

Wilson is the designated marksman in a company of Marines based in downtown Ramadi, watching over what Marines call the most dangerous neighborhood in the most dangerous city in the world.

[Read on. Helmet tip: Subsunk, whose title I used.]

Contributed by Bill Faith on July 30, 2006 at 05:32 AM in Bill Faith, The American Warrior, US Marine Corps | Permalink

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