対イラク武力行使

"Any weapons we can take off the street, it's always gonna be OK for us,
" Del Gaudio says."The last thing we want is to get shot with it later."
While the Marines search every room in the house, Jeffrey Gurski,
a 21-year-old private who's in his first tour in Iraq, is pulling guard
duty on the roof.
But does he know who he's fighting?
"Yes and no," he says. "You have some guy shooting at you ? and
five minutes later, the same guy could be walking on the street like
a regular civilian …and you would never know that this guy was shooting
at you."
Inside the house, the Marines are trying to calm two young boys they've
brought here from the house next door after detaining their father.
Nothing the Marines do seems to help. It's only when the boys join their
Iraqi neighbors in the next-door room that they finally fall silent.

21歳の上等兵
(RFC.JEFFREY GURSKI)
初めてイラクにやって来ました。
屋根から見張っています。

The Marines know every minute they spend here exposes them to possible
attack. "Everything here is a damn threat ? snipers, machine gunfire on
a regular basis, rockets and IEDs," Del Gaudio says.
いつも海兵隊員は攻撃を受ける可能性があると考えています。
死刑にあったようなもんです。
常にロケット弾やIED攻撃を仕掛けてきますから。

They face all those threats as they head out, knowing they still have to
make it back to their base at the local government center.
As they finally approach the gates, the Marines throw smoke grenades
to mask their movements.
色々な脅威に直面しています。
本当に厳しい道のりです。
ようやく基地の門の所へ来ました。
煙手投げ弾を使います。

They may be home ? but even here they're not quite safe. They regularly
get attacked inside the base,where the local Iraqi government is housed.
But on this day, at least, the Marines of Company K were able to breathe
a sigh of relief.
ここは家かもしれませんが、しかし安全ではありません。
基地の中でも常に攻撃を受けます」