It was "Shake and Bake Time" when I rode into battle in Iraq with the First Marine Division\'s lead assault battalion.
Three weeks later we arrived in the Iraqi capitol of Baghdad, bloodied,.
The first night was frightening as we crossed through "No Man\'s Land" between two sand berms that separate Kuwait from Iraq, its warring neighbor to the north.
I saw Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003 from the Backseat of a Humvee in Counter Mech Platoon, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines.
It was "Shake and Bake Time" when I rode into battle in Iraq with the First Marine Division\'s lead assault battalion