Fallujah Video: U.S. Army Combat Footage

The streets of Fallujah are eerily empty in this video of a company of soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division as they fight block-to-block against resistance fighters hiding amongst the bombed-out buildings.

2-2nd, 1st ID (3:18, 4.8MB, .ASF)

The footage is not graphic, but it does illustrate the extreme violence that our troops are experiencing. These are young kids, younger than me (I'm only 25 - the average age of our soldiers is around 19) and most of them are not emotionally equipped to effectively handle the stress and the carnage they're witnessing -- even if you don't support the mission concept, it's important that we provide support for the young men and women fighting and dying daily in Iraq and around the world.