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Mar 28, 2012 · 28 Mar 2012 | Posted by vlogger. Fallujah, Iraq - Marine sniper Sgt Ethan Place spots three Iraq insurgents in a vehicle speeding towards their position. Armed with AK-47s and RPGs, Sgt Place...
marksmanship instructor. John Ethan Place is an American serviceman who served in the United States Marine Corps as a sniper. In Fallujah, which the US Army bombarded, the then-twenty-year-old sniper killed 32 people (insurgents) in thirteen days, from April 11 to April 24, 2004. [1]
- Corporal
- Fallujah during the Iraq War
- 2001–05
- United States Marine Corps
Sniper Alley in 1996, seen from a IFOR vehicle. "Sniper Alley" ( Bosnian: Snajperska aleja / Снајперска алеја) was the informal name primarily for streets such as Ulica Zmaja od Bosne ( Dragon of Bosnia Street) and Meša Selimović Boulevard, the main boulevard in Sarajevo which during the Bosnian War was lined with Serbian ...
Nov 8, 2021 · In early November, as the battalion’s two sniper teams met up in the evening at a six-story building in Fallujah — dubbed the “flower factory” — Sgt. Matthew Mardan and his fellow ...
Nov 10, 2014 · We were on a rooftop in Falluja. A sniper was in a minaret a couple of hundred yards away. The sound of battle was all around us but the roof seemed awfully still and quiet. You couldn't see...
Apr 19, 2004 · FALLUJAH, Iraq — A black-garbed Iraqi gunman slinked over a rooftop and shimmied down a palm tree, pausing for a few seconds to grab a rifle from a comrade. A few blocks away, on another rooftop, a Marine sniper squeezed a trigger and shot the man in the leg. A second shot into his chest killed him, throwing his body out of the tree.
Mar 22, 2023 · Listen • 6:56. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: After the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which began 20 years ago this week, one city would become known to Americans as the epicenter of the Iraqi insurgency - Fallujah. Vast areas of the city were leveled in two huge battles between insurgents and U.S. troops.
