Intense Urban Combat! | Battle Of Ramadi 2005 / 2006 Iraq War (Only The Dead)

This is the only documentary out there that makes you feel genuine fear while watching it. It’s as real as it gets without being there

My buddy was in Ramadi and Fallujah. We were in rehab together he had crazy nightmares and PTSD. He drank himself to death a few years back. RIP Sarge

My son is a Marine and he just tells me Ramadi was hell...he will not talk about it but he will talk about his brothers he lost and how hard they fought... Semper Fi...

My father was deployed to Ramadi in 2005. I was just a kid when he left, he never told me much about his time or experience in his 30 years of service in the Army. The very few things he ever told me and my brother was about Ramadi, he said that entire battle was where he had the most casualties in his unit. It almost felt like he blamed himself for the loss of the men sometimes, which hurt me because I saw how much it hurt him. I can never know what truly happened to him during his many deployments or in Ramadi, but I hope one day he can find peace with his past. he is my hero.

I remember being a kid and being completely amazed at the idea of being a soldier. Footage like this really put things into perspective. Rest Easy too all the young men & women who never came home.

I did 7 months in Ramadi with zero close air support. All ground ops. Wonderful place.

Incredible. House to house urban combat. Our war was jungle, nothing like this. What a look at modern warfare. I saw troops with chem cordite detectors. Very good addition. We had to, smell and guess. Never knew who was farmer and who was VC. Thanks boys for all you gave.

I was a scout/sniper for 1/104th Cav during this time and I am very grateful to be home safe. Lost 6 friends over there & still have a hard time explaining to anyone outside the military wtf we really went thru.

I’m from Ramadi, and I was 15 years old that time. The marks that were left in our hearts would never be erased or forgotten, I lost so many relatives most of them were innocent. We grew up in fear and whenever I remember that era I feel like it was a relentless nightmare. Thank God I’m still alive.

A friend of mine fought in this battle. He lost a lot of friends there and was permanently wounded himself. He died recently from non-related issues. RIP.

I spent 2 years fighting in and around Ramadi in 03-04 and 04-05. Spent another year up around Kirkuk in 10-11. Almost a year in Kandahar, Afghanistan 12-13… I’ve come to the conclusion that I have far more in common with the people and even insurgents of those countries than I do with most my own countrymen. I’ve learned that the Iraqis and Afghani’s aren’t my enemy…the people who sent me to war are my enemy. I was wrong and I have to live with that. I don’t know how to prevent this from turning into hatred and resentment towards my own people, my own government. I want to be a good man…but I also want to end the war profiteers and that will require doing terrible things… Regardless, there is no peace for me.

In 2005-2006 (when I was there) it was very widespread as far as engagements. We were regularly hit by IEDs and small arms. I thought we were "in the shit"... Then, while going on leave, I met up with some dudes from the 101st that were in Ramadi, while in transport (LSA Anaconda, if I remember correctly). I'd been in a lot of contact, and we'd lost troops to KIA/WIA, but the stories they told me were spine chilling. Ramadi was on another level to the rest of the theater.... Casualty statistics were off the charts in Ramadi, compared to the rest of the operation. I had mad respect for those dudes. I met and befriended a Marine later in life that was in Ramadi in 2004, and 2006-2007. Dude has two purple hearts from the same city. That's wild to me.

The men who can stand their ground and hold the enemy back are the fiercest of them all

I am a veteran of Ramadi but no one ever talks about the first Army unit in Ramadi 2004-2005. 1/503rd infantry will always be my brotherhood

I was in Ramadi at the time of this footage with 1st Armored, my first deployment, 2005-2006. Deployed to Afghanistan 2 more times throughout my time in the army and never saw anything as intense as Ramadi, pure madness.

I served in Ramadi from '03-'04 in the 1st Infantry Division. Mass respect to these Soldiers and Service Members

My first tour was 04 -05. Went into fallujah in November as EOD security. I was 19 and that that place was the true Wild West. Second tour 06-07 we literally had to let them shoot at us before firing back. I’m 37 now and it saddens and angers me. All the loss so rich men can get richer. We destabilized the region for the next century. As a going away present we left hundreds of thousands of small arms for the Taliban as well. Federal agencies are spending millions on guns and ammo right now. Why are doing that and why aren’t they being transparent?

Being raised by a Vietnam vet. Who still trembled in 2003 just before his passing. I wanted to know, What caused the shaking. I miss you old man.

the soldier at 7:15 that instinctively moved to protect the camera man. Absolutely amazing.

My unit was deployed to Iraq in 2005 to 2006. 2006 was the year I enlisted in the army. Listening to my unit telling their own stories over there. First Brigade 4th Infantry Division.