The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.
Leading the coalition military effort during the surge in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 was the most important endeavor - and greatest challenge - of my 37 years in uniform.
I dropped an aerial torpedo right in the center, and the group opened up like a flowering rose. It was most entertaining.
I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.
We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.
Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
If you have really good intelligence, that truly does put the - I mean putting troops on the ground in some way.
We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.
It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.
