Fallujah

Picked up a post at The Green Side entitled ‘An Email from Dave – Nov 19, 04’ where Marine LtCol Dave Bellon emails his father about Fallujah. In his opening paras he talks of Corporal Yeager’s being Chuck Yeager’s grandson and if you haven’t heard of Yeager the elder then do yourself a favour and go read of this remarkable man It appears the gene pool held true as Dave Bellon talks of Cpl Yeager attacking the bad guys in Fallujah. This is one acorn that hasn’t fallen too far from the tree

The first is a Marine from 3/5. His name is Corporal Yeager (Chuck Yeager’s grandson). As the Marines cleared an apartment building, they got to the top floor and the point man kicked in the door. As he did so, an enemy grenade and a burst of gunfire came out. The explosion and enemy fire took off the point man’s leg. He was then immediately shot in the arm as he lay in the doorway. Corporal Yeager tossed a grenade in the room and ran into the doorway and into the enemy fire in order to pull his buddy back to cover. As he was dragging the wounded Marine to cover, his own grenade came back through the doorway. Without pausing, he reached down and threw the grenade back through the door while he heaved his buddy to safety.

With a full head of steam up he goes back in..

The grenade went off inside the room and Cpl Yeager threw another in. He immediately entered the room following the second explosion. He gunned down three enemy all within three feet of where he stood and then let fly a third grenade as he backed out of the room to complete the evacuation of the wounded Marine. You have to understand that a grenade goes off within 5 seconds of having the pin pulled. Marines usually let them “cook off” for a second or two before tossing them in. Therefore, this entire episode took place in less than 30 seconds.

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