Stars & Stripes
Marines continue sweep in Husaybah
HUSAYBAH, Iraq - Marines on Thursday marched though garden courtyards, climbed over crumbling stone walls and ducked under clotheslines as they continued their house-by-house search of this Syrian border city and neared the close of one of their largest operations in months.
With chalky cliffs and the Euphrates River valley looming to the north, Marines swept steadily through the city on the sixth day of fighting, as the stiff resistance seen earlier in the week had largely faded away.
Lance Cpl. Paul Scott, 19, recalled killing a man for the first time during a firefight earlier in the week.
"I put a burst and the dude dropped," said Scott, who grew up with his father, a career Marine, in Santa Maria, Calif. "It was my first one, pretty motivating."
Oo-rah.Motivating indeed. Killing your nations avowed enemy. Get some.
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