Marines, journalists caught in Afghanistan firefight

By Dan Lamothe – Staff writer
Posted : Thursday May 20, 2010 18:26:16 EDT

MARJAH, Afghanistan — The bullets snapped overhead angrily, and all I could feel were the insects crawling up and down my legs and the sludgy water seeping into my boots.

That’s how I’ll remember an ambush on a Marine patrol today, in which I saw my first warzone firefight.

It began at about 12:30 p.m., as 10 members of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, and six Afghan National Army soldiers pushed east on a dirt trail splitting two agricultural canals in central Marjah. The sky was clear and the air temperature had crept into the 90s, as the hot Afghan sun punished everything below.

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